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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

The company, Global MaaS, had built an app that provides city-dwellers with a digital one-stop shop for all sorts of travel options – transit, taxis, ride hailing, bike sharing, and so on. The "unified" payment is meant to encourage multi-modal trips, as a 2021 Portuguese study pointed out.

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Episode 219: Water, workplaces and well-being

GreenBiz

Don't miss this one-on-one interview featuring GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower and well-respected sustainability consultant John Elkington, who recently published his 20th book, "Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism." Circularity goes digital. Register for the live event at 1 p.m. EDT May 14. EDT May 18.

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Will Your City Be a Smart City Soon?

Daniel Burrus

Despite the apparent trade-off between privacy and efficiency, authorities across the globe are intent on becoming known for achieving smart city status and for the right reasons. Lansing, Michigan, put in smart street lighting and was able to reduce costs by 70%, a big win for the mayor who championed the initiative.

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Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

As Simone Browne demonstrated in her book Dark Matters , contemporary tech-enabled surveillance practices are an extension of the long history of policing Black life in the United States from slavery onward. What if, sometimes, the answer isn’t technology?

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Sustainable security solutions—protecting people, planet and profit.

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

Overwatch and ground level network cameras can increase safety for vehicles and pedestrians and improve the overall experience for businesses, visitors and residents in smart cities. He is also author of the Digital Video Handbook, a DHS S+T publication providing guidance for law enforcement, fire and other first responders.

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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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Sustainable security solutions—protecting people, planet and profit.

Axis Communications Sustainability Blog

Overwatch and ground level network cameras can increase safety for vehicles and pedestrians and improve the overall experience for businesses, visitors and residents in smart cities. He is also author of the Digital Video Handbook, a DHS S+T publication providing guidance for law enforcement, fire and other first responders.