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At the Spring Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo in Columbus, Ohio, 325 community leaders gathered for three days of in-person networking and content sharing focused on technology, sustainability, and growth. As it happens, our team also came together at the event to celebrate ten years of US Ignite!
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US Ignite will partner with Texas A&M University (TAMU) to host a challenge competition that tasks participants to deliver an AI system to help first responders leverage data coming from IoT devices, smart buildings, and other public streams.
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Comcast, US Ignite and Philadelphia Collaborate on Smart Cities Pilot. The resulting smart technology allows the City to collect real-time data to count objects, check air quality, and monitor weather conditions.
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In this second part of our analysis of the Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act we explain the role of state broadband offices, where to find them, and how to initiate a successful partnership.
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Part of an upcoming state-sized "tsunami of federal funding” is intended to enable the expansion of broadband access to unserved and underserved populations across local, state, and tribal jurisdictions. Read our breakdown of the stimulus funding.
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Dr. Rebecca Hammons is an Associate Professor at Ball State University with 40 years of experience working as a software executive. Recently, Dr. Hammons also served as the IEEE IoT Initiative’s Smart Cities Working Group co-chair. Given her expertise in ethics, we asked her for recommendations on how smart communities can operationalize ethics.
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US Ignite responded to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NIST) request for comments on broadband programs created by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Law. In the text below you can find the comments made in response to questions 1, 7, 12, and 31.
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Project OVERCOME, funded by the National Science Foundation with support from Schmidt Futures, is helping communities prepare for new broadband money by supporting pilot network deployments and gathering insights to ensure federal dollars are put to their most effective use.
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Over the last eight months, our proposed Civic Trust Framework has helped our communities evaluate their smart city projects through the people and policy lens. Here we go through the most common privacy concerns communities express and four narrative traps that community leaders must avoid.
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We launched InnovateSLC, a smart city accelerator program designed to support local startups and provide Salt Lake City (SLC) with innovative solutions for some of its most pressing challenges. InnovateSLC aims to equip startups to enter the smart city market with connections, tools, and the knowledge needed to deliver smart solutions for the city.
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Augmented reality (AR) no longer only applies to games and social media fun. The innovative use of AR technologies can add value to the lives of community members like those above. US Ignite partnered with Reality Labs to launch the AR Developer Challenge grant to help communities discover and leverage the possibilities of AR.
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