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A Canadian project, inspired by India
Context:
- Amarjeet Sohi, Canada’s Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, spoke of his country’s Smart City Challenge, something that has been inspired by India.
Canada’s Smart City Challenge:
- According to Amarjeet Sohi, the way the challenges work is to call municipalities to identify problems and then use technology to solve these problems.
- Further, viable projects can be funded.
- Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge aims to find the city that possesses the boldest, most experimental, inclusive, empowering, and digitally transformative ideas in the country.
