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Blisscity ─ The Smart City Convention Germany (Impressions)

Blisscity – Deutschlands Smart City Convention, hat am 21. und 22. November in Frankfurt am Main stattgefunden. Wir möchten Sie rückblickend an der ...

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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    Region: Asia
    Country: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
    Inhabitans: 3.000.000 - 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 2% - 3%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: expanding free Wi-Fi services to bus stops and shopping arcades, having more mobile-friendly data services, and encouraging “intelligent homes”.
Domain: smartcity.org.hk
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Specific Project Targets: In 2010, Hong Kong put forward our own target to reduce the carbon intensity by 50-60% from the 2005 level by 2020. To reduce the city’s energy intensity from the 2005 level by 40% by 2025
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Articles: 1) How Hong Kong can become a smart city with a connected future
2) Joint mainland-HK ‘smart city’ deal signed off
3) Hong Kong to build a 'smart city': chief executive
Message: "Looking into the future, we will uphold our vision and mission to promote Smart City development in Hong Kong. We will support the development of Hong Kong's knowledge-based economy, and enhance quality of life by increasing global cooperation on the building of Smart Cities as we develop Hong Kong as the world's leading Smart City. I wish everyone will support us actively, let us unite to build a smarter and better Hong Kong!" said Eric Yeung Chuen-sing
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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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    Region: South-america
    Country: Argentina
    Inhabitans: 1.000.000 - 3.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 1% - 2%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: Streetlight
Domain: turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en
Twin City: Yerevan, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santiago, Beijing, Zagreb, Prague, Santo Domingo, Quito, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Calabria, Osaka, Mexico City, Asunción, Lima, Warsaw, Lisbon, Moscow, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cádiz, Guadix, Madrid, Oviedo, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Vigo, Miami, Montevideo
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Specific Project Targets: The City set a global goal for 2030: to reduce GHG emissions by 30% compared with 2008 levels, in a business as usual scenario (BAU). By enhancing green spaces and planting trees and plants, the temperature of Buenos Aires is expected to fall by up to 6ºC by 2034. Green motorways and macro-blocks are also contemplated in the plan, the latter aiming for a 50% reduction in levels of noise pollution, and a 97% reduction in CO2 emissions.
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Articles: 1) 3 Ways Buenos Aires Is Leading Smart City Technology [VIDEO]
2) Buenos Aires: The Making Of A Smart City
3) Buenos Aires reaching out to young travellers
Message: Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri: “If you want to have a modern city you need to adapt and evolve. Every week cities receive hundreds of citizens that come to look for a job or new experiences or simply to have fun and they all demand quality services.”
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Singapore

Singapore

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    Region: Asia
    Country: Republic of Singapore
    Inhabitans: 3.000.000 - 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 2% - 3%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: The Helix, Singapore Sports Hub, Singapore Flyer, Fusionopolis, CapitaGreen,New IT infrastructure at One North, Labrador Nature and Coastal Walk, Office Realtime, Project Max10 for BHP Billiton, Thomson Line, Singapore
Domain: gov.sg
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Specific Project Targets: Singapore communicates that it intends to reduce its Emissions Intensity by 36% from 2005 levels by 2030, and stabilise its emissions with the aim of peaking around 2030.,, Singapore pledged to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 16% below business-as-usual (BAU) levels in 2020
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Articles: 1) To rise as a Smart Nation, Singapore must disrupt the workplace
2) Singapore Is Taking the ‘Smart City’ to a Whole New Level
3) Smart cities will be necessary for our survival
Message: Singapore is made up of our hopes, our dreams and our aspirations, for ourselves, for our families, for one another and our collective will to make our aspirations a reality. PM Lee Hsien Loong
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Johannesburg

Johannesburg

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    Region: Africa
    Country: South Africa
    Inhabitans: 3.000.000 - 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 1% - 2%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: Intelligent Wifi, Mass public transport – a true ‘silver bullet’, Smart crime fighting
Domain: joburg.org.za
Twin City: Accra, Addis ababa, Birmingham, Kinshasa, London, Matola,New York City, Taipei, Val de Marne, Windhoek
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Specific Project Targets: Outcome 1: Improved quality of life and development-driven resilience for all Outcome 2: Provide a resilient, liveable, sustainable urban environment – underpinned by infrastructure supportive of a low-carbon economy Outcome 3: An inclusive, job-intensive, resilient and competitive economy Outcome 4: A leading metropolitan government that pro-actively contributes to and builds a sustainable, socially inclusive, locally integrated and globally competitive GCR
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Articles: 1) Joburg – leading the smart city revolution in Africa
2) FUTURE JOBURG | The fluid future of Johannesburg’s 2060 city: The Modderfontein smart city
3) Africa: A playground of the future through smart cities
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New York City

New York City

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    Region: North-America
    Country: United States
    Inhabitans: 3.000.000 - 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 0% - 1%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: The Lowline, Museum Technology, The Subway
Domain: nyc.gov
Twin City: Rome, Peking, Madrid, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Budapest, Johannesburg
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Specific Project Targets: 1.New York City's greenhouse gas emissions will be 80 percent lower by 2050 than in 2005. 2.New York City will send zero waste to landfills by 2030. 3. New York City will have the best air quality among all large U.S. cities by 2030. 4. New York City will clean up contaminated land to address disproportionately high exposures in low-income communities and convert land to safe and beneficial use. 5. New York City will mitigate neighborhood flooding and offer high-quality water services.
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We Search: Developer and Engineers who are able to build the city of tomorrow
Articles: 1) Projects are turning New York into futuristic technology hub
2) Upgrade for NYC sidewalks
Message: Mayor Bill de Blasio said "Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges to our city, which is why we've committed to an 80 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. "To move us toward our goals, we'll need the city's brightest minds and ideas, which is why Urban Tech NYC is so important. By providing our most talented visionaries with the space and resources they need to grow, we're acting on our commitments to entrepreneurs, to innovation, and to a smarter and more equitable New York."
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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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    Region: South-America
    Country: Brazil
    Inhabitans: 3.000.000 - 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 1% - 2%
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Projects: IBM’ solution
Domain: rj.gov.br
Twin City: Atlanta, Cologne, Miam beach, Istanbul, Kiev
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Specific Project Targets: 20% reduction in GHG emissions by 2020
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Articles: 1) Smart-City Strategy: Rio de Janeiro
Message: “The city of the future is a city that cares about its citizens and integrates its citizens.” Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro
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Seoul

Seoul

Seoul

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    Region: Asia
    Country: South Korea
    Inhabitans: > 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: -1% - 0%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: Recharging roads, Media Center
Domain: seoul.go.kr
Twin City: Taipei, San Francisco, Paris, Cairo, Rome, Tokyo, Moscow, Ankara
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Specific Project Targets: By 2030, reduce greenhouse gases by 40%, increase new/renewable energy supply Create 1 million green jobs by promoting 10 major Green Technologies suitable for Seoul, such as hydrogen fuel cell
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Articles: 1) Is Seoul the smartest city in the world?
Message: "communication between person and person, people and agencies, and citizens and municipal spaces, with human beings always taking the central position in everything. … [That vision is] characterized by its unprecedented level of sharing.” Mayor Park Won-soon
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Sydney

Sydney

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    Region: Australia
    Country: Australia
    Inhabitans: 3.000.000 - 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 0% - 1%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: Permanent public art projects, Hi-speed railroad tracks
Domain: cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Twin City: Boston, Milan, St. Petersburg, Thessaloniki
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Specific Project Targets: The target of Sydney is 50% renewable electricity by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050, a target of a 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across our local government area and in our own operations by 2030. 1. Reduce mains water consumption across the LGA by 10% of 2006 levels by 2030 through water efficiency programs. 2. Reduce mains water consumption in Council’s own buildings and operations to 10% below 2006 levels by 2030 through water efficiency and connection of Council facilities to park-based or precinct-scale recycled or alternative non-potable water supplies. 3. Replace 30% of mains water demand across the City of Sydney local government area with recycled or alternative non-potable water generated from local water resources by 2030
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Articles: 1) Sydneys smart-city transformation invest public art
2) Hi-Speed railroad spark
3) Using LoRa to build Fitbit for Sydney
Message: "We worked with residents, big and small businesses, other levels of government, the universities and cultural institutions. We brought in some of Sydney's - and the world's - most creative thinkers, and our own staff were fired with enthusiasm." Clover Moore Mayor of Sydney
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Tokyo

Tokyo

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    Region: Asia
    Country: Japan
    Inhabitans: > 10.000.000
    Growth Forecast p.a.: 0% - 1%
Mayor's Message:
Projects: Kashiwa-no-ha Urban Development
Domain: kashiwanoha-smartcity.com
Twin City: New York City, Beijing, Paris, Seoul, Cairo, Moscow, Berlin
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Specific Project Targets: Energy use reduction by 30% over 2000 levels by 2030 by 20%
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Articles: 1) Kashiwanoha Smart City Project
2) The big tech firms are wrong. We must build smart cities from the ground up
3) UCLA Japan Center Opened in Kashiwa-no-ha
Message: "Tokyo must aim to be smart in terms of our environment and smart in terms of our economy. Technological advancement will play a paramount role in both regards. Tokyo must utilize the state of art technology in urban planning, energy policy, and economic reform, and Tokyo will aim for both environmental sustainability and economic sustainability. Leveraging the latest technology we need to back this up with the real policy and real budget. Implementation and support for eco-housing, small housing, and utlilization of renewable energy will be important policy considerations environmentally. I have also been a strong advocate for the undergrounding of the overhead cables such as telecommunication and power lines.This is not only meaningful for the resilience for the city, but is also important to regain aesthetics. For me, this is an important part of helping to make Tokyo look smart." Mayor of Tokyo,Yuriko Koike
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