IN: Kerala: Kochi: With 18 months to go, completing Smart City projects an uphill task
Under the Smart City, the selected local body can devise projects worth ` 1,000 crore which should be implemented in five years.
With the deadline for completing the Smart City Mission projects, which were allotted under the 100 Smart City programme of the Centre, going to end in 2020, it will be an uphill task for the Cochin Smart City Mission Ltd (CSML) and Kochi Corporation to complete the entire work within this time.
US: California: Temecula's online search portal for public records is now available
Temecula has a new online search portal for public records. Custom search forms allow the user to find the most relevant documents. In addition to agendas, minutes, resolutions and ordinances, development and improvement plans, along with other records are also available. Building permits and other records will be coming online soon. Users can search various fields or via a location pinpointed on a map.
MyPay Launches its Government Digital Payments Platform
Home-grown tech company Dapat Vista announced the official launch of its government e-payments service, MyPay.
They first announced they foray into the market in January 2019 when they launched the beta version of their service, the company started out as a SMS service provider for various government departments and agencies since 2000.
Reliance on e-services has become a security issue in Estonia as it pioneers eGovernment
Estonia's president calls on state to develop cyber-security, cryptography capabilities after an earlier ID card crisis put half the population at risk of id theft.
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid has announced that her country must develop its cyber-security and cryptography capabilities to support the development of e-state services, and avoid a repetition of Estonia’s 2017 ID card crisis which has exposed various institutional weaknesses.
US: Public Safety is at the Heart of the Smart City Movement
Cities, in collaboration with the private sector and technology providers, will be creating ecosystems of systems
According to a report released by the UN in 2018, more than half of the world’s population lives in an urban area or city. This number is expected to rise to almost 70 percent in the next 30 years. While people move to cities for a variety of reasons, we all have one expectation in common: that we will be safe.