Singapore has consistently dominated WCAIR rankings, with the exception of a poor showing due to an accidental data poisoning error in Week 3. The Smartest City team lost their top spot this week because, ironically enough, of their own city’s…
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Week 5: Bangalore Finds its Feet
Following a month of political instability, Bangalore’s LetsGo Blore project has slowly stabilized their ranking. The project was marked with political controversy from the outset, after it was discovered that several city council members who had voted in favor of…
The AI Municipality: UNOGAI and the Future City; an interview with Elna Ødegaard
By Gareth Molina, independent reporter. Published in UN Special, 29 September 2020 Elna Ødegaard is the current Director of the United Nations Office for Global Artificial Intelligence (UNOGAI), a regulatory body based out of Brussels which has the stated aim of…
Week 4: Berlin Cracks the Case
Berlin’s Burgersrichtung Business Projekt made headlines (and leapt up the WCAIR rankings) this week after the team announced that their initial pass over city business registration databases had permitted the Berlin Police’s fraud unit to crack a tax fraud case.…
LaNua Motors Up
Tel Aviv’s LaNua Project jumped eight spots in the rankings this week, after confirmation from UCAIR rankings that the project’s computing centers had finished their first datasets and begun to issue directives to project base stations. Project lead Moishe Levy…
A vision on AI in the City, by our director Elna Ødegaard
The below is a transcript of UNOGAI director Elna Ødegaard’s opening lecture for the 2020 WCAIR. The Smart City has the future. However, to implement the concept of the Smart City, municipalities need an underlying infrastructure and a reliable network…
The Thinkhub Goes Online
The triumvirate of cities involved in the U.S. Thinkhub Data Pipeline project have skyrocketed in the rankings this week, thanks to bringing their AI-controlled information sharing network online a full 2 weeks ahead of schedule. Project representatives in Boston, Austin…
The 2021 WCAIR begins!
Judging officials have arrived in their host cities and the 2021 UN World City AI Rankings have begun! The 2021 program includes some of the most impressive pilot projects we’ve seen yet, spread across a huge range of fields. Current…
United Nations Office for Global Artificial Intelligence announces 2021 World AI City Rankings Competition
The United Nations regulatory body charged with incentivizing global Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has announced the 20 finalists for their 2021 competitive program, which will select one international city or town for substantial AI infrastructure development funding. In a news…