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Jumptuit, Inc., announces the launch of Jumptuit Smart City, delivering smarter data services to all sectors of smart cities through Jumptuit's Regulated Contributory Data Streaming Service.

Jumptuit Smart City is part of The Jumptuit Group encompassing a broad spectrum of data that impacts Smart Citizen and Smart Business services in all sectors including healthcare, education, residential and commercial buildings, transportation and logistics, finance, insurance, energy, utilities and government.

Kazakhstan is listed 39th in the United Nations E-Government Survey 2018, the UN reported.

Now the country has 6 projects of "smart city" including Smart Nur-Sultan, Smart Almaty, Smart Aqkol, Smart Petropavl, Smart Aktobe и Smart Karaganda.

Other orgarnisations that have expressed intention to set up are Tea Board of Kenya, Nairobi Hospital, University Of Nairobi and The South Eastern University College (SEUCO). The ministry of Information and Communication has embarked on an awareness campaign to get more local and international companies and investment groups on board the Konza City development.

Konza City Technopolis is looking at developing its Phase 1 infrastructure through smart technology to reap the benefits of innovation and connectivity.

In a demonstration of expanding technology to bridge infrastructure operations and improve service delivery to citizens, the Techno City has embarked on development of Phase 1 to world-class smart city building standards using smart technology solutions.

South Korea is set to help Cambodia develop its metropolitan areas into so-called smart cities.

Chea Sophara, minister of land management, urban planning and construction, said on Monday that he was due to sign an agreement with his South Korean counterpart this week during a diplomatic visit to the country.

In a bid to improve public transportation services, City Hall on Friday launched an app that enables travellers to track the location of city buses.

In a press release, City Hall said it cooperated with JICA to install GPS on buses for the City Bus app, which was created by ITSMO, enabling travellers to locate buses as well as estimate the time of arrival of a bus at a designated stop.

Khon Kaen has been chosen to be the government's model smart city for other provinces to learn from.

Last Saturday, Khon Kaen hosted the Smart City Expo 2018, an event designed to showcase a variety of projects aimed at achieving the goal.

Researchers Find Multiple Smart Components Of The Modern City Vulnerable To Cyber-Attacks

Kaspersky Lab researchers examined a number of digital kiosks and interactive terminals used in modern cities for different purposes – from paying for different services through to entertainment – and discovered that a lot of them contain vulnerabilities that can expose private user data and be used to spy or spread malicious code. Along with kiosks, specialists researched speed cameras used in cities and their supporting infrastructure. As a result, they discovered that malicious users could easily access these cameras and manipulate the data collected.

Busan Metropolitan City and Amazon Web Services (AWS) signed an agreement on July 25 at Busan Cloud Innovation Center to develop smart city initiatives and strengthen innovation in the public sector.

The agreement is aimed at strengthening mutual cooperation based on the success of the startup initiative made through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the city of Busan and AWS in March 2016.

The Smart Seoul 2015 incorporates IT services into government administration, citizen health and welfare, and industry and living. Seoul citizens will be able to use free wireless internet at public facilities across the city, including public offices and community centres, from as early as 2015.

Mayor Oh Se-hoon said, “The miracle of IT, which has developed alarmingly fast over the past twenty or more years, will be upgraded once more through Smart Seoul,” adding, “Seoul City will continue to maintain its stature as the World’s Best IT City, and as a Convenient State-of-the-art City where IT streams into every aspect of citizens’ daily life.”

Researchers in South Korea have developed a smart city traffic monitoring system using adaptive cameras.

The system dynamically activates more cameras during busy times and fewer during quiet periods, optimizing the use of resources and improving road safety. The system was tested in a range of situations and shows the potential to reduce accidents, ease congestion and conserve energy.

Secretary General of World Smart Sustainable Cities Organisation (WeGO) reveals plans to work with North Korea.

The World Smart Sustainable Cities Organisation (WeGO) in Seoul plans to help North Korea build smart cities, its Secretary General has exclusively revealed to GovInsider.

Legal experts and public officials from around Asia will come to Korea for the annual Asian Legislative Experts Symposium (ALES), held at The Plaza Seoul hotel on Oct. 30, to discuss legislative issues in "smart city" projects, according to the Ministry of Government Legislation, Sunday.

Co-hosted by the ministry and the Korea Legislation Research Institute, the conference provides a platform for Asian countries to share their legislative expertise and experience.

Director Rha said “In the smart era, where information can freely transcend national boundaries with the development of information technology, we need to ponder how to prepare for the next generation. For the last twenty years, information technology has been the driving force behind the Korean economy. During this period, the growth rate of IT industry has shown a 13.4 percent increase, demonstrating how the industry has created added value to the economy, considering the GDP growth rate for the same period was a meager 4.7 percent. Today, Korea boasts of leading various IT markets, capturing 27.5 percent of the cell phone market, 37.8 percent of TV, 51.7 percent of memory, and 52.9 percent of display panel market shares. Without information technology, the Korean economy would not have been able to grow as it is now. Even in the network sector, although Korean companies were not initially successful at commercialization of WiBro despite being the first country to do so, they adopted LTE early this time and have succeeded in launching the world’s first nationwide network.”

KT will build a smart community in Australia in cooperation with a local partner and Seoul National University using its information technology, Korea's No. 2 mobile carrier announced, Sunday.

The telecommunication firm said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Seoul National University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Australia's Smart Community Consortium (SSC) at KT's headquarters in Gwanghwamun, central Seoul, Thursday.

Happening for the second time this year, Marcus Evans 2nd Annual Smart Cities is set to take place on the 25th – 27th October 2017 at Conrad Seoul, South Korea.

Speaking at the event Fazal Hussain Director Enterprise Solutions City of Toronto mentioned that “sharing information from across the world allows us to consider new ideas and share experiences that help us all. The world is one big community the residents are highly mobile in order to make our urban centers competitive with other global urban centers we must participate in events like the Marcus Evans - 2nd Annual Smart Cities conference."

The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Wednesday it will install 50,000 Internet of Things (IoT) smart sensors throughout the capital city by 2022 to collect information on fine dust, traffic and other things related to citizens’ lives.

The Seoul government will also introduce chatbots to its 120 Dasan Call Center service, a civil complaints hotline, this year, as well as a shared parking system in which smartphone users can check availability at public parking lots.

During his nine-day-long visit to Europe, Park Won-soon, mayor of Seoul, revealed that the South Korean capital is planning to implement blockchain technology across a number of key areas in the city’s government over the next five years.

The Blockchain Urban Plan will see the technology added to 14 public services in the city. The budget for the plan stands at estimaded 123 billion Korean won ($108 million). Services that will see blockchain introduction include voting, labor welfare certification issuance, etc.

The e-Seoul Net is an exclusive high-speed information and telecommunication network which links the Main Building of Seoul City Hall, its branch offices, affiliated organizations and Gu (district) offices with an aim toward realizing an e-government. u-Seoul Net is a telecommunication network that offers audio-visual and Internet (data) services such as traffic and CCTV information. The core of Seoul’s informatization project in the future is to carry out the Smart Seoul 2015 project.