Five Ways to Speed Up the Creation of Smart Cities

Five Ways to Speed Up the Creation of Smart Cities

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The promise of technology-enabled infrastructure – or InfraTech – is attractive: Smarter, greener cities. Connected transport systems. Efficient, carbon-neutral construction. Higher-performing, longer-lasting assets. Faster responses to pandemics. All powered by ubiquitous 5G wi-fi. But getting there is proving harder than imagined. Poor connectivity, cumbersome regulations, insufficient funding and a skills gap are all holding back progress. Only through a sustained effort on the part of governments, augmented by public-private collaboration and investment, can we accelerate the pace of InfraTech adoption and usher in a new era of digital infrastructure.

World Economic Forum | Five Ways to Speed Up the Creation of Smart Cities