The need for insights Never before has analytics, transparency and accountability been such hot topics for local governments. Both citizens and legislators are holding city leaders accountable for public spending as well as their performance on citizen services. With depleting budgets city leadership must not only manage their assets and processes better but additionally stand [...]
Is there a case for democratization of smart applications? Cities across the world are vying to be smarter. Ageing infrastructure and spiraling population are jostling with each other in a progressively destructive way. Upping the ante for provisioning of newer and better services is often a futile cry for enabling the change. Public procurement [...]
If the Rio Story penned by Gartner Analyst, Bettina Tratz-Ryan is anything to go by then it appears “signals” are at the heart of any smart city. Signals as defined by Web2.0 guru Tim O’Reilly, was about the use of syndication technology such as RSS to notify users of content changes. Amplify that thought to conceptualize a [...]
People are the smart units No one knows more about a city and how it functions than the people who live and work there. Ask the auto-rickshaw driver to take you from one place and the other by the shortest possible route and he will do so without needing a GPRS device. Ask the postman [...]
From a privileged few to a participating many An included, involved and participating smart citizen will be at the heart of every smarter city. Demographics if at all provide a very limited view of citizens in any country. At best they are a very approximate snapshot of the recent past. The data collected is [...]
