Cities should proactively develop solutions that meet their customers’ needs. A “smart” city and its policies need to be designed, implemented, and monitored as a tool to improve well-being for all people. Paul Hoekstra, Mobility BU Director USA at TNL Mobility USAīut it is not just about implementing what is technically feasible or pursuing what is financially rewarding, cities also need to start challenging their inhabitants. If we break up the silos, we will accelerate city efficiency. The result is that the solutions are being implemented as silos and therefore limited to a narrow focus. Smart City strategies are too often treated as standalone projects rather than part of a comprehensive whole. #3 Let’s break the silos and develop strategies that look at cities as a whole
A Smart City and its policies need to be designed, implemented, and monitored as a tool to improve well-being for all people. In order to become “smart”, cities need to start challenging their inhabitants. There is great potential for global collaboration when it comes to the implementation of Smart City solutions because cities everywhere are facing the same challenges and they all more or less speak the same language, which is data! #2 Cities should proactively develop solutions #1 Smart City Solutions can work everywhere because data speaks one language
Together with Smart City experts, we discussed roadmaps, regulations, and innovative technologies leading the path to implementing Smart City visions. The focus was on energy efficiency, smart infrastructure, and urban mobility solutions that make cities more resilient for the future.
In our Smart City Innovations virtual conference, we discussed how cities on both sides of the Atlantic can drive and implement smart city solutions. These developments also have a big impact on the lifestyle and look of our cities. Megatrends are changing societies worldwide – the digitalization in almost all areas of our daily lives, climate change, the ongoing migration movements, and demographic changes that influence the composition of the population. Blog ⋅ Energy ⋅ Shaping the Future of Smart Cities