Techs and The City
By 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Urbanisation is happening faster than at any time in human history – and it is accelerating the scale of challenges faced by these cities – from congestion and pollution to housing shortages and energy consumption.
Seoul in South Korea is one of the city governments rising to these challenges by placing innovation at the centre of city policy, utilizing real-time data and the latest sensor technologies to make the city more efficient.
In Nairobi and cities across the developing world, citizens are using smartphone technology to find data-driven solutions to help cope with their cities’ overstretched infrastructure.
Whilst forward-thinking innovators in the United States and elsewhere are busy anticipating data-driven technologies that could help predict problems before they even happen. They are all finding new ways to tackle the challenges faced by modern-day megacities, using technology – and helping to shape the cities of the future.
