With two-thirds of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, the question of how to make cities work better for their inhabitants has never been more urgent. If harnessed, the data that permeate cities can answer this question in myriad ways, and serve to inspire solutions for navigating the technological, social and economic changes of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’.
With this in mind, and as part of a World Economic Forum drive to empower city leadership in employing technology to improve the urban experience and using data to define and measure their preparedness for this transformation, it has published a report “Data-Driven Cities: 20 Stories of Innovation”.
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