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.  ...
Review of KnowNow’s Rollercoaster 2016

Review of KnowNow’s Rollercoaster 2016

What a Year! What a Ride! 2016 was a very interesting year from KnowNow’s perspective. We made a decision to pivot, won some battles, lost some skirmishes and we have made some customers very happy. We also had to say goodbye to some old friends too. As Dave...
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...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

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...
Why Bristol is top of the UK Smart Cities Index

Citizens Now Have Consent Part 2

Part 2 – What is happening now… The Business Case is warming up When it came to KnowNow’s innovative new consent tool what we needed was a view of the market.   We needed to move from a hunch to a viable innovation backed up with evidence. A consequence of...