eBook: Smart City Solutions for a Riskier World

How 167 cities worldwide are leveraging technology, data, and partnerships to drive Social Development Goals (SDGs)

Smart City Solutions for a Riskier World, is a forward-looking study that provides city decision-makers with an evidence-based playbook for driving better social, environmental, and economic outcomes in today’s transformed world.

The research, based on a survey of 167 city leaders from 82 countries around the world, dramatically underscores the vital role of technology, data, partnerships, and citizen engagement in enabling municipalities to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and helping give rise to a new class of cities—Cities 4.0.

The research looked at a vast array of areas including:

Main challenges faced by the city in achieving its social, environmental, economic goals
Biggest lessons learned from the global pandemic
Top three external disruptions facing cites
Prioritises for the next three years to enhance/use ecosystem of suppliers & partners
Investment priorities across urban domain
Cities maturity in data analytics
Sentiment of citizens in uses of data and technology
Steps to foster citizen engagement