Professor Simon Collinson and Dr Amir Qamar were recently featured in a report on data by Prospect magazine. The report, called “Data as Infrastructure” puts together a series of articles and essays on “Smart cities” and how local authorities are beginning to see data as another form of infrastructure.
Simon and Amir’s chapter titled “Smart city-regions need smart people“, looks at the growing urbanisation of the world, and the opportunities, as well as the challenges that data provides to create ‘smart cities’. Cities that are not only efficient and operational, but that provide creative, innovative and good places to do business. That are attractive places to live and work, cities that are inclusive, not exclusive.
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