IBM is offering a free white paper that elaborates on the very successful webcast titled "How Smart Is Your City?"
For the first time in history, the world's population has shifted from a rural majority to an urban one. By 2050, 70 percent of people will be living in cities. Cities are systems of many complex systems. All the ways in which the world works — from transportation, to energy, to healthcare, to commerce, to education, to security, to food and water and beyond — come together in our cities. This means that cities — more than states, provinces or even nations — are the central arena for success or failure.
New tools and new models can now make cities more productive, more vibrant and more responsive. Interconnected and instrumented smart technologies offer a real-time integrated view of complex city systems, enabling administrators to monitor operations, improve performance and respond to the needs of their jurisdictions. New partnerships among businesses and the public sector means greater collaboration and opportunities to build smarter systems and smarter cities.
