Only Smart Citizens can create Smart Cities

Recently to the surprise of many Bhubhaneshwar topped the Smart City challenge announced by the Government of India.

What differentiated Bhubaneshwar’s proposal was that it was a bottom-up “citizen lead” initiative and not top down technology focused plan like many other proposals.

This is also in line with latest thinking on the subject as policy makers globally are opening their eyes and saying no to purely tech lead ( “cart before horse”) initiatives being promoted aggressively by technology companies.

http://www.smartcitieschallenge.in/files/dmfile/Draft-Smart-Cities-Proposal-Bhubaneswar1.pdf

http://blog.kpmg.nl/only-smart-citizens-can-enable-true-smart-cities/