4 ways to weave resiliency, tech into city recovery plans

Source: Smart Cities Dive Published: May 13, 2020

In a Tuesday webinar, a number of smart city consultants offered best practices to assist governments in building more resilient cities and regions as the nation looks toward recovery from the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The webinar, hosted by IEEE Smart Cities — particularly the P2784 working group — centered around the idea that cities have an opportunity to advance various technologies to better respond to crises, and they should use existing frameworks offered by organizations like the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) to weave elements of resiliency into long-term smart city frameworks.

"We should stop calling it a smart city; we should call it a responsive city," said Benson Chan, co-founder of innovation firm Strategy of Things, on the call. Chan's firm works with NIST and other organizations like CompTIA and Qualcomm in building resiliency and internet of things (IoT) strategies and guidance for governments. Chan and other speakers shared these strategies on the call through four key learning objectives.

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