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The 2021 WCAIR Competition has come to an end, with Beijing’s Shining Dawn, Singapore’s Smartest City and Juinen’s Untitled Oversight Project moving on to the WCAIR Challenge in Brussels. This year’s WCAIR Chief Judge, Sven Pedersen, called the competition one…
Paris’ SystèmeNous project to use crowdsourced data to track the health of municipal architecture has had a rocky path through this years’ WCAIR rankings, largely thanks to difficulties acquiring sufficiently large datasets without complications of attribution. A new agreement with…
Juinen’s Untitled Oversight Project, flexible and unconventional in its methods as always, has claimed the #5 spot on the rankings this week. WCAIR officials called the small Dutch municipality’s methods “intricate and fascinating”, and a “truly revolutionary paradigm shift in…
Stockholm’s Alla+Svensk project team clinched their first top-10 spot this week, thanks to a successful public rollout of their AI-assisted cloud translation software. A+S apps were available for public use in civic information terminals in Stockholm’s downtown core, and for…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…