Newcastle leapfrogged Manchester and London in the rankings.
Newcastle has been named as the UK city best equipped with smart technology.
The city beat some of the world's best-known locations in the global Smart City Index which measures how the lives of communities are improved by smart technology.
Read more: Newcastle named UK’s leading city for technological progress
The two officials shared strategic operations, national programmes, and projects
As reported in Vietnam News, the UK and Vietnam are enhancing cooperation between the two nations in advancing the digital economy and digital transformation.
On Monday, Vietnamese Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, and the UK’s Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Chris Philp, signed a Letter of Intent on cooperation.
Read more: The UK and Vietnam work together in boosting digital transformation
Plans for Peterborough, one of the UK’s fastest growing cities, to adopt a smart energy system have reached their halfway point.
The Mayor of Peterborough, Councillor Stephen Lane, and Peterborough City Council leader, Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald, were among the local leaders who celebrated the milestone at an event on 21 October to welcome an electric double-decker bus into the city on its national clean energy tour of the UK in the run-up to COP26.
Read more: UK’s Largest Smart City Energy Regeneration Scheme
City of Edinburgh Council has a stated aim to become a world-leading smart city that is digitally inclusive and sustainable, with services easily accessible by all of its residents. To fulfil this ambition, it has signed a five-year contract with CGI to realise the transformation.
Procurement of this city management asset is supported via a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) grant as part of the Scotland’s 8th City – the Smart City programme. City of Edinburgh Council is delivering three projects budgeted at £6.4m, of which £2.5m is part of the ERDF grant.
Read more: GB: Scotland: City of Edinburgh Council signs up CGI to implement smart city plans
Eurostar is to trial the use of biometrics for customers checking in for services at its St Pancras International hub.
The high-speed rail operator first announced plans for a biometrics trial last summer – the initiative had been scheduled to launch in March this year, but trusted identity, payments and data protection firm Entrust confirmed that its solution would “soon be piloted in the UK by Eurostar”.
Read more: GB: London: Eurostar to trial biometrics at St Pancras check-in