Accelerating Digital Innovation For Future Cities

Kamal Kashyap, Country Manager, Government & Public Sector, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

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HPE understands government’s concerns on Smart City transformation and is committed to accompanying them in making it a success. HPE’s tested horizontal approach can break open vertical projects, transforming them into transverse and interoperable strategies, multiplying the capacity for governance and actions in a flexible, global, and shared architecture, making the company an ideal long-term transformation partner for Smart City leaders.

Smart cities are urban areas that use digital technologies in a secure fashion to manage the municipality’s assets, enhance sustainable economic development, reduce costs and resource consumption, and support the well-being of its citizens.

Smart cities have become a global phenomenon, and municipal leaders around the world are interested in the potential opportunities as they prepare their cities for the future. Beyond marketing and technology, an effective smart city strategy takes a city’s cultural, socioeconomic, environmental, and geographical realities into account and requires collaboration between stakeholders—from policymakers to citizens—with assistance from trusted, experienced information and communication technology (ICT) partners.

Every initiative under the Smart City umbrella has an embedded element of technology. City planning, administration, and the related functions require cutting edge technologies like automation, machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence among others. In fact, Smart City initiatives are exploiting these technologies to make services for urban life, richer safer, and far more responsive to citizens’ needs.

Digital technologies are creating new opportunities for innovation. Uber or Ola are the perfect examples of an innovation which nobody could have thought about a few years ago. 4G and 5G mobile networks will throw a lot of opportunities for innovation.