Tag: Intelligent Communities

Cities policy and citizen benefits

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Innovation policy at all levels of government has to demonstrate benefit for everyday Australians clearly in order to have a chance of being effective, Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale said....

Melbourne’s plan to get smart

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Smart cities initiatives in Melbourne mark a shift from top-down governance to citizen-centric policy-making, according to Liberal Senator for Victoria Jane Hume. Speaking at InnovationAus.com’s Intelligent Communities event in...

Growing demand for IoT standards

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The technologies used to improve city services will require standards-based interoperability and security protocols to take advantage of truly smart cities potential, Giant Ideas director Catherine Caruana-McManus said. Speaking...

Regional cities: Proof of concept

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Smaller cities like Bendigo present a huge opportunity to act as large-scale proof of concept projects for smart cities strategic policy planning, experts say. Victoria’s Minister for Public Transport...

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...

Build community with digital data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Being the leader of a community and making decisions to address social and economic challenges may feel like a gambler rolling the dice. You know you have to place...

City Deals, the same but different

Posted on   |  by James Riley
For a couple of years now, the Australian Government has had a Smart Cities plan. It has website devoted to the subject, and has appointed up-and-comer Angus Taylor as...

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...