TIE and FICCI, are jointly organizing conference series on "Smart Solutions 4 Smart Societies". The first of series of the conferences will be organized on June 15, 2015 Hotel Park Hyatt Hyderabad.
As you may be aware in the current scenario, the global population continues to grow at a steady pace, more and more people are moving to cities every single day. Experts predict the world?s urban population will double by 2050 - which means we?re adding the equivalent of seven New Delhi Cities to the planet every single year. Urban areas also contribute a higher share of GDP. In India, the urban population is currently 31% of the total population and it contributes over 60% of India?s GDP. It is projected that urban India will contribute nearly 75% of the national GDP in the next 15 years. Cities are accordingly referred to as the engines of economic growth. There is accordingly a crying need for the cities to get smarter to handle this large-scale urbanization and finding new ways to manage complexity, increase efficiency, reduce expenses, and improve quality of life.
"A Smart city is one that has the following: Competiveness, Sustainability. The general appearance of a "smart city" has to be pleasing & clean. The key features of a Smart City are the intersect between competitiveness, Capital and Sustainability. The smart cities should be able to provide good infrastructure such as water, sanitation, reliable utility services, health care; attract investments; transparent processes that make it easy to run a commercial activities; simple and on line processes for obtaining approvals, and various citizen centric services to make citizens feel safe and happy.
Some of the key areas which plays a vital role to the context of smart cities are: Smart Health, Smart Energy, Smart Education, Smart Homes, Smart Environment, Smart Buildings, Smart IT & Communications and Smart Governance, etc.
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