During Prime Minister’s Questions on 15 January, Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated The Open University on the MK:Smart initiative and Milton Keynes for its representation on the Smart Cities Forum. MK:Smart is a £16m multi partner project, led by Professor Enrico Motta of KMi (the Knowledge Media Institute), which is a critical part of a range of […]
Professor Enrico Motta, Project Director of MK:Smart led a delegation of project partners to an informal exchange of ideas with the Glasgow Future Cities Initiative this week. After some interesting updates on the progress, opportunities and challenges faced by the Glasgow initiative and an introduction to the scope of the MK:Smart project, the conversation centred […]
KMi’s Professor Enrico Motta, of the Open University, is the Project Director of MK:Smart, a three year, £16m HEFCE-funded project that will, from January 2014, develop innovative ways of supporting the significant forecast growth in Milton Keynes. Central to the Open University-led project is the creation of a state-of-the-art ‘MK Data Hub’ which will curate vast amounts of data […]
As a result of the work conducted under the MK:Smart project umbrella, Milton Keynes takes a prominent place in recently published report by the World Bank Group that focuses on governmental response...
Geoff Snelson, director of strategy and futures of Milton Keynes council presented the MK:Smart vision to the TM Forum 3rd Smart City in Focus Forum in Yinchuan, China. The MK delegation included...
As MK:Smart project came to an end, we reflect on our achievements to date in this short video summarising some of the main areas of MK:Smart research. Although the project officially finished at...
Tweets