archiveAugust 2015

Government AnnouncementsPolicy & Regulation

SHRI M. VENKAIAH NAIDU ANNOUNCES 98 SELECTED SMART CITY NOMINEES

Minister of Urban development Shri M Venkaiah Naidu today announced the following list of cities and towns selected under smart cities mission. The State/UT wise list is given below: Shri Naidu gave details of profiles of all the selected cities and towns in terms of population and characters of each city/town. He informed that: -24 cities are capital cities; -24 are business and industrial centres; -18 are of cultural and tourism importance; -5 are port cities and three are educational and healthcare hubs. In terms of population ; -8 have...
Smart IT & Communications

IBM’S INDIA HEAD REVEALS HOW CREATING SMART CITIES IN INDIA IS REALLY NO ‘ROCKET SCIENCE’

The government has allocated Rs. 98,000 crores for 100 Smart Cities Mission in India. Clearly it is not enough, agrees Pratap Padode, founder and director of Smart Cities Council India. So this is where the private players come in and a lot is dependent on them. Are they willing to take risk? What is the current status of their involvement in this project?Here it from a player itself; Pratap Pradhan, Director, Smarter Planet Business, IBM India and South Asia, who is leading IBM’s Smart City plans in India, in talks...
Policy & Regulation

VENKAIAH NAIDU HITS BACK AT KARNATAKA CM SIDDARAMAIAH OVER ‘SMART CITY’ ISSUE

Hitting back at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu RPT Venkaiah Naidu today said the state itself had not proposed Bengaluru for “Smart Cities Mission” and the Centre was committed to make it a “great city” even if the ruling Congress did not want it to be so. “It is a lie and contrary to facts,” Union Urban Development Minister Naidu said in a sharp rejoinder to Siddaramaiah’s charge in the run-up to the August 22 city civic body polls that the central ministers from Karnataka, including Naidu, did...
Smart Governance

MKRISHI AQUA APP LAUNCHED AS PART OF E-GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES

mKRISHI AQUA is an Android app and provides an easy tool to seafood growers in stocking, pond management, feed and water test management and sampling in addition to providing weather forecast and graphical records. This mobile application has been developed by Tata Consultancy Services – Innovation Lab Mumbai’s Digital Farming Initiative in collaboration with Marine Produce Export Development Authority (MPEDA), a statutory body under MCI.This is pilot project presently operated in Gujarat and will be extended all over India in few months. Aquaculture of shrimp is a complex set of...
Smart Transportation

MOBILE TICKETING SAVES TIME, TAKES OUT HASSLE – FIRST PARTNERSHIP DEPLOYMENT ACROSS ATHENS TRANSIT SYSTEM

MasterCard recently announced a global partnership with Masabi, the leader in mobile ticketing for transit, that will set commuters and visitors free from scrambling for cash when buying tickets for the subway or bus. By combining MasterCard’s payment technology with Masabi’s JustRide mobile ticketing platform consumers will experience a faster and more convenient way to get around a city’s transit system. The first city to benefit from this alliance will be Athens, where passengers of the Greek capital’s transit systems are now able to use an innovative mobile solution to...
International

VODAFONE SPAIN PRESENTS “VODAFONE CONNECTED CITY”, ITS SERVICE OFFERING FOR SMART CITIES

Vodafone Spain announced a strategy to provide its customers intelligent services that promote efficiency initiative, management and livability of cities. This new proposal, called “Vodafone Connected City” offers the possibility of developing solutions for public administrations and private companies. IBM is the company responsible for providing the technology infrastructure hardware, software and services necessary for the implementation of this initiative, which seek to boost the efficiency of Spanish cities in different areas: mobility, building design, security and emergency, energy, water, health -analytical medical data or monitoring crónicos- sick, education, tourism...
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