Tag: Smart Cities

The Snowy Hydro and cities policy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Snowy Hydro expansion is an example of how good cities policies aren’t properly realised until decades in the future, Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation Angus Taylor...

Data, cities and new civic pride

Posted on   |  by Kevin Keith
In Victorian England, poverty grew from the shadows of wealth. Slums slumped against symbols of civic pride, cowering next to towering town halls funded through rich merchant princes, whose...

Community as a modern ecosystem

Posted on   |  by Brian Lee-Archer
Cities are centres of population, commerce, and culture while communities are groups of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Think city and...

Regions a testbed for smart cities

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s regional cities make the perfect testing environment for larger ‘smart city’ policies and projects, and should be used to deploy pilot programs before scaling public investment, according to...

Smart cities are people and tech

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The idea of smart cities has been around for a decade or more. In recent years, with the rise of the Internet of Things, the term has increasingly become...

Hypercat alliance for smart cities

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia looks like throwing its lot in with the UK-originated Hypercat Alliance as a technology standard for the Internet of Things to support the development of smart cities. Hypercat...

Coalition releases Smart Cities plan

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Less than two weeks from the election, Turnbull Government has released its Smart Cities policy. But it contains very little new funding – the few real initiatives announced will...