eINDIA 2015 – Best Practices of Building Smart Cities: Smart City Proposal & Vision

  • 22-12-2015 07:44:35
  • e-governance

Brick and mortar are the essential elements of a smart city with IT being an icing on the cake. Storage of data is another important aspect for smart cities, believes Manoj Agarwal from NetApp. The speakers in this session talked about how technology is crucial for development of smart cities. Also, citizen participation via various social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google plus was also given attention as it is ultimately the citizens for whom these smart cities are being developed. A focus was given to the cost of these cities as well that will be spent to maintain these high-tech cities. CCTV surveillance, role of stakeholders, following of law and order for establishing buildings and much more grabbed the attention of the speakers in this session.