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“Sportification Brings Sport Into the Heart of Our Communities” - IOC President Addresses Smart Cities & Sport Summit

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: October 28, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Sportification of cities – or how cities around the world can become playgrounds to bring people closer to sport, was the theme of this year’s edition of the Smart Cities and Sport Summit held in Lausanne, the Olympic Capital.

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

In 2015, a Helsinki start-up unveiled a plan for something it called “mobility-as-a-service,” or MaaS, based on ideas that had been developed in a 2014 masters' thesis at a Finnish university. Reprinted with permission from Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022). .

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Achieving the SDGs in South Asia

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN South Asia is hosted by The Energy and Research Institute (TERI), and was established in July 2014 to bring together academic and policy institutions from the region to focus on the SDGs. Possible collaborations on flagship government programs such as Smart Cities (in India) with local universities could open the space for such support.

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Collaboration welcome: Visualizing the SDGs in San Jose with Stanford Sustainable Urban Systems

Sustainable Development Network

Collaborative governance is key… At the Smart Cities Conference in New York City , SUS partnered up with the City of Palo Alto and consultant firm DNV GL to run a workshop called “Collaborative Governance Towards a Fossil Free Bay Area.”

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”

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The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

That’s equivalent to roughly 10 years’ worth of China’s annual emissions as of 2014 — an amount that far surpasses the 90 billion ton avoidance potential of Drawdown’s top-ranked solution, refrigerant management. By empowering women and girls globally, Project Drawdown calculated that we could avoid 120 billion tons of emissions by 2050.

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