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Estonian president calls for common digital region of Baltics, Nordic countries

TALLINN – Cooperation between Estonia and Norway in security, in combating climate change and in the digital turnaround were discussed during a meeting of Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid with Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg in Oslo on Friday. 

The Estonian president called on the Baltic and Scandinavian countries to establish a joint digital region.

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Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Nanhai District of Foshan has won awards

A smart city hub is being created in Ireland to test autonomous vehicle (AV) technology across 12km of public roads.

The Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) is a knowledge platform to exchange data, experience and know-how and to collaborate on the creation of smart cities, providing a high quality of life for its citizens in a clean, energy efficient and climate friendly urban environment. SCIS brings together project developers, cities, research institutions, industry, experts and citizens from across Europe.

Russian operator MTS has upgraded its cloud service #CloudMTS with a super-computer. The capacity of the super-computer has been quadrupled to 4 petaflops (floating point operations per second) and adapted the service for Smart City projects with the use of video-surveillance systems, adding hyper-scaling calculations. The upgrade will enable the operator to carry out Smart City projects more efficiently, accelerating the processing of data from video-surveillance cameras.

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Huawei's Customers Win Three World Smart City Awards and Three Nominations at the 2020 Smart City Expo World Congress

Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Nanhai District of Foshan has won awards

Smart city hub coming to Ireland

A smart city hub is being created in Ireland to test autonomous vehicle (AV) technology across 12km of public roads.

EU Smart Cities Information System

The Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) is a knowledge platform to exchange data, experience and know-how and to collaborate on the creation of smart cities, providing a high quality of life for its citizens in a clean, energy efficient and climate friendly urban environment. SCIS brings together project developers, cities, research institutions, industry, experts and citizens from across Europe.

MTS adapts cloud service to needs of Smart City

Russian operator MTS has upgraded its cloud service #CloudMTS with a super-computer. The capacity of the super-computer has been quadrupled to 4 petaflops (floating point operations per second) and adapted the service for Smart City projects with the use of video-surveillance systems, adding hyper-scaling calculations. The upgrade will enable the operator to carry out Smart City projects more efficiently, accelerating the processing of data from video-surveillance cameras.

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