Smart 506

[Paz Warsager]

Dangerousby Design 2024 finds that 7,522 people were struck and killed while walking in 2022, an average of more than 20 per day. We found that not everyone lives and walks with the same risk. Black and Indigenous Americans, older adults, and people walking in low-income communities die at higher rates and face higher levels of risk compared to all Americans.

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In December 2015, we launched our Smart City Challenge, asking mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated, first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data, applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly, cheaply, and efficiently. The Challenge generated an overwhelming response: 78 applicant cities shared the challenges they face and ideas for how to tackle them. Then, our seven finalists worked with DOT to further develop their ideas.

With the publication of our report, "Smart City Challenge: Lessons for Building Cities of the Future," we are making good on our promise to share the lessons we learned about the transportation challenges America's cities face and about the innovative solutions that could help us meet those those challenges.

By challenging American cities to use emerging transportation technologies to address their most pressing problems, the Smart City Challenge aimed to spread innovation through a mixture of competition, collaboration, and experimentation. But the Smart City Challenge was about more than just technology. We called on mayors to define their most pressing transportation problems and envision bold new solutions that could change the face of transportation in our cities by meeting the needs of residents of all ages and abilities; and bridging the digital divide so that everyone, not just the tech-savvy, can be connected to everything their city has to offer.

To generate recording highlights, smart chapters, and next steps, you must have a cloud recording and audio transcript processed and available to view. You will receive email notifications when the recording and transcript are finished processing. These emails include links to view your recordings and transcript. Recording highlights, smart chapters, and next steps can be edited by the owner of the cloud recording (the host) or a user with permission to manage cloud recordings.

Note: Editing or adjusting the transcript, smart chapters, highlights, and next steps requires the owner of the recording (host of the meeting), or a user with permissions to manage cloud recordings

Once the cloud recording and audio transcript have finished processing, you can go to the Zoom web portal to manage and edit the recording highlights, smart chapters, and next steps. In addition to managing your recording with Smart Recording, you can trim the recording, download the files, and more.

If enabled, Zoom AI Companion will highlight the most important parts of the session. You can manually adjust highlights as needed and can save highlights as separate files to cut unnecessary parts of the recording.

Cut unnecessary parts of the recording by exporting highlights and saving them to a new clip that you can view, edit, and share. If you share this video clip, viewers can only watch the recording highlights. This will also cut the associated files (audio and transcripts).

If enabled, Zoom AI Companion will automatically group the recording into different sections with timestamps. You can click on a chapter to watch the part of the recording starting at that timestamp. Viewers who watch the cloud recording can see the smart chapters and next steps.

If enabled, Zoom AI Companion will automatically examine the end of the recording and look for cues to identify any next steps for you. You can keep the next steps as part of the recording, as well as the text out to others.

If enabled, Zoom AI Companion can analyze and provide metrics on key factors in your meeting conversations, such as talk speed, talk-listen ratio, longest spiel (or monologue), filler word usage, and your patience in discussion. These metrics can be viewed when viewing a cloud recording after it has finished processing and is available for only the host and eligible account admins.

Metrics and analytics are provided for informational purposes and may contain inaccuracies. Results are not intended to be used for employment decisions or other comparable decisions. All recommended ranges for metrics are based on publicly available research.

This shows the average percentage of total time when the host was speaking. The talk-listen ratio of the host allows them to view the proportion of time they were actively speaking in a meeting and also how well the speaker is able to engage the participants.

This shows the duration of the longest speech segment of the host. A spiel, or monologue, is being the only participant speaking for a length of time, which can discourage others from participating in the conversation, impact listener comprehension, and cause fatigue. This data can help hosts be more aware of how much time they are speaking at once and creating pauses for questions or comments.

The recommended maximum for a monologue varies, depending on the topic you are presenting on or question you are answering, but recent research suggests that stopping intermittently to ask questions boosts overall learning and retention in the educational sector.

USDA first announced details of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities opportunity in February 2022. The design of this opportunity was informed by over 400 comments received in the Request for Information published in September 2021. Through this new opportunity, USDA will finance partnerships to support the production and marketing of climate-smart commodities via a set of pilot projects lasting one to five years.

Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities pilot projects must focus on the on-farm, on-ranch, or forest production of climate-smart commodities and associated reductions of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and/or carbon sequestration.

Highly competitive projects will include agricultural and forestry practices or combinations of practices, and/or practice enhancements that provide GHG benefits and/or carbon sequestration, including but not limited to:

Funding for Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities was provided in two funding pools. On March 11, USDA extended the deadlines to apply after requests from many stakeholders. USDA is committed to equity in delivery and will ensure that all projects in both funding pools benefit small and/or underserved producers. Projects were also encouraged to include early adopters.

Applicants must have submitted project proposals on Grants.gov by the appropriate funding pool deadline, as outlined under Funding Pools and Proposal Deadlines. Potential applicants were directed to the Grants.gov Organization Registration webpage for a complete set of instructions and initial steps.

Greenhouse gas and/or carbon sequestration benefits and equity are key among project evaluation criteria. Projects must center around benefits to producers, and the meaningful inclusion of small and underserved producers is included in evaluation. Incentives to encourage producer participation are critical to project success. The Notice of Funding Opportunity includes a complete set of project proposal requirements, evaluation criteria, and submission guidelines.

Today, the Administration is also hosting a White House Smart Cities Forum, coinciding with Smart Cities Week hosted by the Smart Cities Council, to highlight new steps and brainstorm additional ways that science and technology can support municipal efforts.

The Department of Energy (DOE) will invest almost $10 million to expand efforts to support the emergence of smart, energy-efficient and low-emission cities that are leveraging Smart Cities technologies. These new steps include:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing new steps to unlock Smart Cities approaches to environmental monitoring and analysis. These new steps are designed to help communities undertake innovative sensor-based approaches to improve data collection and analysis of environmental condition and risk, including:

The U.S. Census Bureau (Census) is announcing new steps to expand the open-source CitySDK project, making valuable data available to communities and civic innovators. To help incubate new apps that are based on open data, including Smart Cities apps with broad civic benefits, Census is launching the following:

More than 20 city-university collaborations are launching the MetroLab Network, with more than 60 Smart City projects in the next year. Supported by a newly announced grant of $1 million from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the MetroLab Network will leverage university expertise to address challenges facing cities and regions across the country. The Network will provide a platform upon which established and emerging city-university relationships can share successful projects, coordinate multi-city, multi-university research efforts, and compete for research and project funding. The founding members have collectively committed to undertaking more than 60 projects over the next year, which will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of infrastructure and services in our cities and communities and increase the productivity and competitiveness of our regional economies. Communities and their university counterparts signing onto the network with a joint letter to the President include:

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