A newly announced collaboration between the TM Forum and the FIWARE Foundation might help speed up development of smart cities.

As part of their collaboration, TM Forum, a global industry association for digital business, and FIWARE Foundation, an independent open community working to build an open ecosystem around public, royalty-free software platform standards to ease the development of smart applications, are focusing on application programming interfaces (APIs) to help build smart cities worldwide.

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