Smart cities market is not working, because our cities are not designed to be interoperable. How to support the portability of solutions? Which are the challenges for ownership, privacy and urban platforms?
2. • We convene businesses,
universities, investors, innovators
and cities.
• We test and develop new products
and services to accelerate them to
market.
• We enable the adoption of
innovations in cities around the
world.
CITIES
BUSINESSES
ACADEM IA
CITIZENS
4. OUR URBAN
FUTURE
1 9 5 0
746m
30% of total population
TOD AY
3.8bn
54% of total population
2 0 5 0
6.3bn
66% of total population
TOTAL POPULATION
2.52bn
TOTAL POPULATION
7bn
We convene businesses, universities, investors, innovators and cities, so that they can work together to solve real city problems. Across our network of collaborating cities we test and develop new products and services to accelerate them to market. And by demonstrating performance-in-use and building investment cases we enable the adoption of innovations in cities around the world.
The world is urbanising rapidly. By 2050, 70 percent of people in the world will live in cities. But much of our urban infrastructure is already running at full capacity and ageing populations, shifting economies and changing climates are all set to stretch it further.
There’s a huge opportunity to use innovative technologies and processes to solve the problem. The global integrated cities solutions market is valued at $325 billion by 2030 and there’s an estimated global infrastructure investment of $40 trillion required over the next 20 years
Complex Problems are Related to poverty and have Multiple faces
Tandale, Ilala, 200 000 people, centre of logistics delivery point for fresh foods in Dar
Raining – flooding – ditches/drains don’t work – leads to food shortage, business loss, also health through public toilets and waterpoints
Water points in Tandale, middle of Dar, are next to the public toilets where one leak can cause diseases for people
Multiple issues together, interconnected, link with various policies, link with various stakeholders, link with attitudes
Technology role
Tandale after one month in map
We know where the houses are, waterpoints and toilets are, we know where the drainage systems are (next to houses). We can also start have idea how housing progress and can update maps
Technology can help us.
Sustainability requires coordination of different policies (urban, health, enterprise), actors (municipal authorities, informal village authorities, businesses, people) and mindsets (if we are visible we pay taxes but require services)
Mapped by 15 students in 30 days under guidance of NGO with cost less than 50k USD.
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