Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Smart cities, a concept which has been in use in the western counties like Sweden for about three decades or more, may become a reality if pronouncements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up 100 smart...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
The STUDSAT (Student Satellite) is a unique satellite technology endeavour undertaken by Under-Graduate students in India. "STUDSAT" is the first Pico-Satellite launched by India. A private engineering college Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology as Lead College under...
Sunday, June 22nd, 2014
This project was seen as a game-changer for the cash-strapped Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). But the Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping of properties has turned out to be damp squib. Despite the completion of the GIS...
Sunday, June 1st, 2014
Central Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Poverty Alleviation Minister (HUPA) Venkaiah Naidu announced in a press conference on Friday that one among many plans to develop Bangalore would be to make use of scientific Geographic Information...
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
A new massive tech hub in India's IT city may eat into its food basket. The Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) coming up in Devanahalli, which supplies to Bangalore its daily supply of vegetables and fruits, is...
Sunday, April 27th, 2014
The successful series of roundtables in India continues with the organisation of the next meeting in Bangalore on April 30, 2014. After the successful completion of four roundtable meetings in 2013 (Mumbai, Pune, Chennai and New Delhi),...
Friday, February 21st, 2014
Global IT major IBM’s big data and predictive analytics will create systems to monitor and manage water supply in Bangalore by the state-run Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB). When a flow meter is selected, a...
Wednesday, January 8th, 2014
Smart Cities Council, a U.S.-based industry coalition to advance smart city development, has opened a regional chapter in Bangalore, which is its first regional chapter. Since the Smart Cities Council was formed in 2012, nearly 20 global...
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Swati Ramanathan, chairperson of the Bangalore-based think tank India Urban Space Foundation and co-founder of the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, led the formulation of one of these two elements—the National Urban Spatial Planning and Development (NUSPD)...
