Information Policy

NYU Governance Lab Calls on Congress to Use Tech for Citizen Engagement

The Governance Lab at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering has called on Congress to use its new CrowdLaw for Congress platform to promote citizen engagement and participation in the federal lawmaking process.

New IDC Spending Guide Forecasts $124 Billion Will Be Spent on Smart Cities Initiatives in 2020

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., February 10, 2020 – A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Smart Cities Spending Guide shows global spending on smart cities initiatives will total nearly $124 billion this year, an increase of 18.9% over 2019. The top 100 cities investing in smart initiatives in 2019 represented around 29% of global spending, and while growth will be sustained among the top spenders in the short term, the market is quite dispersed across midsize and small cities investing in relatively small projects.

Holding our breath — How poor air quality blights cities

Air quality tends to be worse in cities than elsewhere in the country. Figure 2 shows the geography of background concentration levels of two major pollutants – nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and fine particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5)⁶ – across the UK.

A decade of smart city projects: What worked and what didn't

The idea of smart cities was not on anyone's radar back in 2005, but New Orleans got a head start on data-driven decision making thanks to Hurricane Katrina.

After Katrina hit and the city's levees failed, the city started using data to improve and speed-up decision making to support the city's recovery.