Jonathan Andrews

Three months into his new role as Director of Aviation at San Jose Mineta International (SJC) Airport, Mukesh (Mookie) Patel’s main focus is to get “butts on seats”.

A new global initiative has been launched that will define norms and principles to guide the governance of metaverse solutions in cities for areas such as urban planning, education, and municipal services.

San Francisco has launched a new dashboard to benchmark its progress on Vision Zero traffic fatalities compared to 12 peer cities.

The mayor of Columbus, Andrew Ginther (pictured), has been elected by close to 200 of his peers to lead the US Conference of Mayors over the next year.

Eurocities has published a new report – City administrations and EU affairs – which presents cities’ shared experiences of working on EU affairs, including their common challenges, governance structures and most effective methods of EU engagement.

Twenty-three mayors will receive operational support and technical assistance to build leading data and artificial intelligence practices and infrastructure in their city halls.

The European Commission has launched the Climate City Capital Hub, an international finance resource to further support cities participating in the EU Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities.

The Glasgow City Innovation District has launched a new Venture Studio to help founders based in the Scottish city develop new ideas, products, and business models into high growth companies.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a two-year US$50-million investment to aid public sector organisations accelerate innovation in support of critical missions using the company’s generative AI services and infrastructure.

Guidelines for data sharing by cities have been published by the British Standards Institution (BSI).