
Being smart about smart cities: A governance roadmap for digital technologies
Cities looking to use 4IR tools will have to address challenges of accountability, restricting the misuse of technology and ensuring citizen privacy.
BA, University of Michigan; MA, Columbia University. Formerly: New York City’s first-ever Director of Innovation; helped organize the first entirely online public election in US history, laid the groundwork for the world’s largest, fastest municipal Wi-Fi network and led the creation and adoption of new guidelines and tools to promote the responsible and equitable expansion of the Internet of Things.
Cities looking to use 4IR tools will have to address challenges of accountability, restricting the misuse of technology and ensuring citizen privacy.
To meet our net-zero goals, we must focus on our cities. Here's how digitalization and more sustainable electrification can kickstart the change we need.
We are at a critical juncture, where governance decisions will decide if our kids grow up in cities that look more like utopian dreams or nightmares.
過去数年、日本の物理的インフラやデジタルインフラは将来性の高い大きな進展を遂げています。世界経済フォーラムの「国際競争力指標2017-2018」では、<技術成熟度>の項目で順位を4つ上げ、イノベーションランキングでは世界第8位に。安倍晋三首相は2020年東京五輪までに「ロボット産業を経済成長戦略の主要な柱の1つにする」ことを掲げています。
Tokyo aims to be the first mega city in the world to allow drones to carry out deliveries.