Former US president, Bill Clinton, and global IT giant, CISCO Systems, have invited Birmingham City Council to become one of the world’s leading authorities on developing environmentally-friendly ‘smart’ homes.
It joins, Lisbon, Hamburg, Madrid, San Francisco, Seoul and Amsterdam in an exclusive club of seven cities collaborating through CISCO’s Connected Urban Development (CUD) programme.
Skills Pipelines: What local government needs to know
Councils and mayors are to be handed a central role in developing skills pipelines for local industries, as the Government unveils what it calls a ‘fundamental change’ to the education system aimed at tackling youth unemployment. Here's what council leaders and officers need to know.
