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The long tail of smarter citizens

Published on January 16, 2012 By R R Dasgupta

If the Rio Story penned by Gartner Analyst, Bettina Tratz-Ryan is anything to go by then it appears “signals” are at the heart of any smart city. Signals as defined by Web2.0 guru Tim O’Reilly, was about the use of syndication technology such as RSS to notify users of content changes. Amplify that thought to conceptualize a [...]

Smarter cities begin with smarter communities

Published on December 25, 2011 By R R Dasgupta

From a privileged few to a participating many   An included, involved and participating smart citizen will be at the heart of every smarter city. Demographics if at all provide a very limited view of citizens in any country. At best they are a very approximate snapshot of the recent past. The data collected is [...]

May a thousand cities be smart

Published on December 18, 2011 By R R Dasgupta

The promise of the Internet of things This is not a Maosian paraphrase but rather a commentary on a new kind of revolution that is being enabled by the ubiquity of the internet, the ingenuity of people, the intelligence of technologies and the pervasiveness of devices The internet of things is here. Social collaboration is [...]