Americas: IoT Public Policy Index
A US led summit with officials from Australia, Canada, the EU, the UK, Korea, and Japan has committed to develop affirmative cybersecurity standards for connected vehicles. Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) has approved R$49.5 million for digital transformation of the city of Contagem in the Metropolitan Region of Bel Horizonte. The US Department of Transport (USDOT) has published its National Deployment Plan for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies.
Middle East/Africa: IoT Public Policy Index
Ethiopian capital city Addis Ababa has announced a new long-term urban development plan that includes increasing resources available to the city and preparing for smart city and compact city model development. Jordanian Special Economic Zone Aqaba has launched a master plan and road map for development of the port city. Aqaba has been working closely with the Japan International Cooperation Agency since 2022 on urban redevelopment of the city, including smart city applications.
East Asia: IoT Public Policy Index
Beijing has issued 38 smart city scenario innovation requirements. Collaboration between Korea and Vietnam on Smart City development is set to begin in August 2024. Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is expanding its cooperation with Saudi Arabia in the development of Smart City, high speed transportation, and building and construction technologies.
Europe: IoT Public Policy Index
The Greater Manchester region in England has revealed plans for urban regeneration and expansion of Holt Town, an industrial town in the east of the region. The UK's Civil Aviation Authority has selected six projects for a new scheme to test drone use in deliveries, inspections of infrastructure, emergency services and flights to remote locations. The city of Mönchengladbach is developing an Open SmartCity app. Halle in Saxony-Anhalt has received German Government funding of €15 million to develop into a smart city. The Spanish city of Zaragoza has received €70 million to become a Smart City by 2030.
US Executive Order on port cybersecurity
The US Executive Order on Ports directs $20 billion of investment to US port infrastructure, including the direction of funds to domestic crane manufacture and associated IT and IoT systems, and seeks to secure US port infrastructure from cyberattack.
Creating a European Chips Industry
The EU Chips Act aims to increase the continent's global market share in chips from 10% to 20% by 2030, achieve leadership in next-generation chips at 2 nanometres and below, and earmarks €11 billion investment in research and development.
UK PSTI tightens IoT cyber regulation
The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act (PSTI) is a UK law designed to improve the security of smart devices that connect to the internet or local networks. It aims to establish new security standards for manufacturers, importers, and distributors, coming into effect on 29 April 2024.
Four ways AI regulation could affect AIoT
Technology companies and their customer are rushing ahead with the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). The fast pace of adoption and unknowns about the long-term consequences of [...]
Spain aims for Digital Transformation
Hard hit by Covid-19, Spain received one of the largest budgets under the European Union’s Recovery and Resilience programme, part of the EU’s NextGenerationEU. The NextGenerationEU programme is a [...]
Why regulators and standards bodies are taking a close look at IoT security
The internet of things has a bad reputation when it comes to security. Much of it is earned. For years, some device manufacturers ignored basic security practices around access [...]
U.S. Department of Transportation announces SMART grants for 2024
The Biden-Harris administration has announced that it is accepting applications for the Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grants program. In its third year, the U.S. Department of Transportation [...]
The Digital Silk Road: A technology growth engine
The Digital Silk Road is a component of China's Belt and Road Initiative. It aims at the development and export of Chinese sourced embedded and systems technology in communications, infrastructure, cities, transport, logistics, fintech and educational technologies. Announced in 2015, within three years DSR-related investments outside of China had reached $79 billion.
