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An inventory of digital cities and urban digital services from MOOC participants (in French)

As part of our MOOC on “Smart Cities: Technological and Societal Challenges”, participants contributed to activities aimed at identifying relevant initiatives worldwide. The result of their work has been edited within two PDF documents (in French) that you may download from the following links: An inventory of smart cities and supporting urban digital services. Urban …

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Launch of 2 transatlantic activities toward smarter inclusive cities, supported by EIT Digital

The Urban Life and Mobility Action Line of the European  EIT Digital organisation supports 2 transatlantic innovation activities that build upon collaborative research projects undertaken within the CityLab@Inria and Inria@SiliconValley initiatives, and benefit from the newly created IT Digital’s Silicon Valley hub: CivicBudget on “Software platform supporting Internet-based participatory budgeting campaigns” builds upon interdisciplinary research …

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CityLab MOOC on Smart city (in French) starts 25 January 2016

The CityLab MOOC (in French) on smart city starts 25 January  and closes 28 February 2016. The MOOC has been cited by LesEchos.fr as one of the MOOCs to follow to start 2016. See the article here. Detail about the MOOC including registration may be found here. Looking forward your participation – at least the …

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IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities, May 2016, Sain-Louis, Missouri

Members of CityLab co-organize the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC) in May 2016 in St Louis, Missouri, in conjunction with SmartCOMP 2016. The aim of the workshop is to bring together innovative developments in areas related to sensors and smart cities. Call for papers is open till February 15th. For …

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BFM Business & Atelier Numérique @ San Francisco

Listen to Interviews (in French) on new technologies developed in the SiliconValley and worldwide, including smart cities, on the occasion of the 10 years of the Atelier US. Listen to the Podcast  

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An Overview of Funding Opportunities for Smart Cities

An overview of Funding opportunities for smart cities is available Here. The summary brings together the European grants, loans and equity investments supporting the roll-out of smart city solutions.    

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CityLab: An Inria Project Lab starting December 2015

CityLab@Inria has been labelled as an Inria Project Lab for a period of 4 years, starting December 2015. Inria Project Labs’ initiatives enable the launch of ambitious research projects directly linked with the institute. These programmes are often interdisciplinary and call on a wide range of skills. Their key aim is mobilising and highlighting the …

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CityLab MOOC on Smart city (in French): Registration open!

Registration for the CityLab MOOC on Smart City to be given in French and entitled “Villes intelligentes : défis technologiques et sociétaux ” has now opened. The MOOC will start on 25 January 2016 and close on 28 February 2016. More here.

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Japanese-French symposium on Smart Cities – 15-16 September 2015, Tokyo, Japan

In the context of the COP21 (21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) held at the end of this year in Paris and of the 2020 Olympics Games and Paralympics Games in Tokyo, the Embassy of France in Japan and the Science Council of Japan …

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SoundCity: A mobile application for understanding your exposure to noise pollution

On Wednesday July 8, 2015, Inria announced the launch of SoundCity, a mobile application to measure your personal exposure to noise pollution. The project is supported by the City of Paris smart city initiative and Bernard Jomier, deputy mayor responsible for health, disability, and relations with Paris public hospital system. Noise pollution, which lowers quality …

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