In 2013, Glasgow beat a host of other UK cities to win funding worth £24m from the Technology Strategy Board (now known as Innovate UK) to explore innovative ways to use technology and data to make life in the city safer, smarter and more sustainable. Over the last two years, Glasgow has been developing a series of initiatives to showcase the potential offered by smart city technology. Glasgow, once the second city of the British empire, is now aligning itself as the smart city of the future. City planners, civic leaders and technology officials from around the world want to know how it is transforming into possibly the most interconnected, smart and tech-driven metropolis on the planet. Earlier this year Glasgow City Council was been awarded both the Geospatial World Excellence Award and the Holyrood Connect Award for their Future City Glasgow programme, for using technology creatively to improve life in the city. Judges at […]