The Smart Cities Research Initiative (SIRI) is a project of the GDRC Programmes of Urban Governance and ICTs for Development. It looks at smart cities, and the constellations of stakeholders, policies and technologies that enable cities to be responsive, inclusive, efficient and sustainable. SIRI looks at four key technology dimensions that constitute smart cities - big data, cloud storage, artificial intelligence and virtual reality - that bring together ubiquitous and personal information to enable data collection, access, analysis and presentation. SIRI specifically focsses on local governments and the urban policy dimensions of smart cities.

Highlights of GDRC Research

Read GDRC's flagship magazine on Smart Cities [via Flipboard]: Smart Cities for Sustainable Development: A Policy Framework for Developing Countries Policy Analysis Series E-122 Smart Cities Lexicon [forthcoming ... ] Local Government Policies towards Smart Cities in the Asia Pacific Region [forthcoming ... ] Smart Cities Policy Framework: Examples of City Initiatives [forthcoming ... ] List of Smart Cities

Elsewhere in GDRC

The Smart Cities Research Initiative is a joint activity of the GDRC Programmes - Urban Governance       ICTs for Development

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