A report highlighting key learnings from the world’s most innovative cities

How are city managers using today’s cutting-edge technologies to create liveable communities? This report discusses how some of the region’s innovative cities are engaging with technology, planning and people to move towards a knowledge-based economy.

Today, city managers are hard-pressed to keep up with a growing population, changing expectations of citizens, and erratic macro and micro economic reforms to avoid potential socio-economic losses.

For the longest time, cities have been focusing on improving their infrastructure, with little attention given to community engagement. This is exacerbated by a silo mentality in many government departments resulting in inefficiencies in public service delivery.

This forum addressed how city managers should engage the community and other relevant stakeholders to determine what kind of place they want to live in.

This report discusses on how using technology some smart-city governments are breaking barriers and engaging their citizens through various innovative and open government initiatives.