Smart Cities Citizen Engagement: Mobile, Connected and Digital - Part 2

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9 • 108 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The buzz: "By 2030…8.3 billion people with an urban proportion of about 51%. So out of necessity, smart cities are needed …" (Dr Gráinne Watson, Fujitsu) In our mobile-first, digitally connected world, consumers expect to access digital services whenever and wherever they want. Citizens expect the same personalized communications with their city governments. Is this possible? The smart future city will put the citizen at the center of service delivery models. Is your city there yet? The experts speak. Donovan Guin, IBM: "All politics is local" (Tip O'Neill). Kirk Talbott, City of Atlanta: "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog … build a wall…pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects" (Robert A Heinlein). Mike Eberhardt, SAP: "Walk a mile in my shoes" (Joe South, 1970). Join us for Smart Cities Citizen Engagement: Mobile, Connected and Digital – Part 2.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.
0:13.2	This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.
0:17.2	The best run business is run SAP.
0:19.8	Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.
0:22.2	You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.
0:30.0	Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.
0:32.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome.
0:33.6	If you want to run with the game changers, you are in the right place.
0:37.4	Let's see what the buzz is today.
0:39.3	I have a quote from Dr. Grenay Watson at Fujitsu.
0:43.7	Let's see what she has to say.
0:45.7	By 2030, we will have two times more impact on the earth than it was created for.
0:51.2	We'll have 43 billion tons of CO2 emissions and 8.3 billion people with an urban
0:58.0	population proportion of about 51%. So out of necessity, smart cities are needed, end of quote.
1:06.1	So if you think about it, a couple of buzzwords in there. I'd like you to pay attention to.
1:09.8	One, of course, is smart cities.
1:11.6	One is urban and one is people and all the other good stuff.
1:15.6	So what are we talking about today?
1:17.6	In our mobile first digitally connected world, come on, you're all part of it.
1:21.6	You know what I'm talking about.
1:23.6	Consumers like us expect to access digital services when we want, where we want, how we want, bring it to me.
1:31.6	Will citizens expect the same with their city government?
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