Smart City Interview with the Open University

Smart City Interview with the Open University

A recent Smart City Interview between the Open University and KnowNow’s co-founder, David Patterson. Thanks for agreeing to this Smart City Interview. To start us off, how did you get involved in smart cities? David was IBM client Manager for Cardiff City and...
Humanising Smart Cities – TM Forum Review

Humanising Smart Cities – TM Forum Review

Smart Cities can be Citizen Centric Having presented at TM Forum in Nice about “Humanising Smart Cities” I wanted to follow up with my thoughts from the event and discuss what happens next.   The takeaways from the event are: Nice is a really cool city.  ...
Future Watch: Chris Cooper on Data Security

Future Watch: Chris Cooper on Data Security

Future Watch 1: Data Security. Chartered Engineer, Enterprise Architect, and one-half of KnowNow, Chris Cooper talks to Gemma Christie and explains the data security issues that people and organisations still can’t seem to master, as well as next-horizon ideas that...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Bristol is a Top UK Smart City Yesterday I attended the announcement of the first UK Smart Cities Index of top UK smart cities sponsored by Huawei and researched by Navigant.   A very interesting event hosted by The IET at the newly refurbished Savoy Place.  The...
Future of Urban Portsmouth. Really?

Future of Urban Portsmouth. Really?

Slightly surprised by what I heard. Today I was at an event hosted by University of Portsmouth at the Emirates Spinnaker Tower (quite possibly my favourite UK structure).  The event was to kick start a discussion on the future of urban Portsmouth.   Prof. Steffen...