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Building Smart Communities for the Future: Proceedings of a Workshopin Brief
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The keynote address on June 21 was given by Carlo Ratti, the director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab, who explained some of the work underway at the lab. Ratti posited that in the 1990s people were fascinated by the digital world, and they thought that the physical world would become less important and that their lives would become increasingly virtual, to the point that in 1995 George Gilder, futurist, predicted the death of cities, which he called "leftover baggage from the industrial era." "No prediction could have been more wrong," said Ratti.
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SMART CITIES INITIATIVE IN THE STRATEGY OF AMERICAN INNOVATION The first presentation on June 22 was given by Dan Correa from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he leads the White House Smart Cities Initiative. Correa offered an overview of the latest update of the White House's Strategy for Innovation, which includes more than a dozen strategic initiatives, from precision medicine to clean energy to high-performance computing.
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A third project is developing models that relate university involvement, industry partners, and governments collectively in solving problems." Noting that Chicago has a number of projects, Schenk focused on explaining the Array of Things project. Argonne National Lab and the Urban Center for Computation and Data at the University of Chicago worked with the city to develop the idea.
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"Intel is keen to participate in the smart city revolution," he explained, "and in doing so it wants to stitch together everything it has as an asset: its chips, security software, and device management solutions for the IoT." In addition, Intel Capital invests $300 million to $500 million per year, making it the single biggest IoT venture capital firm in the world. Sharma identified three areas that companies and partners need to work together on to bring IoT devices on board and to communicate with each other.
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Among the mentors in the smart cities space are contacts at UBER, the Seattle Department of Transportation, Xerox, Global Automakers, and the Boston Mayor's office. Several hundred smart city and transportation startups in areas ranging from urban mobility to homelessness to urban gardening are working with 1776.
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The Challenge has agency partners, industry partners, and country partners, including the central governments of the Netherlands, Italy, South Korea, and Japan. ROLE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT IN GLOBAL SMART CITIES The final smart cities panel was moderated by Andrew Reynolds of Science, Engineering, and Technology for Development, who offered an overview of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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"But Esri wants to make them bi-directional so that users can not only look at a map, but also ask questions of the map and of the environment around them using sensors and data to form complex questions, get meaningful answers, and observe changes over time." One way Esri has been monitoring and visualizing this is through a project called Urban Observatory. The Urban Observatory lets people compare 20 different themes across 30 different cities, at common scales.
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"The biggest deterrent to people working together on smart communities is limited broadband capability." DISCLAIMER: This Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief was prepared by Sara Frueh as a factual record of what occurred at the meeting. The statements made are those of the author or individual meeting participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all meeting participants, the planning committee, or the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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