{"id":17522,"date":"2020-09-18T01:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17522"},"modified":"2020-09-18T01:14:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T19:44:36","slug":"indian-cities-slip-in-global-smart-city-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-cities-slip-in-global-smart-city-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cities Slip In Global Smart City Index"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Institute for Management Development(IMD) in collaboration with Singapore University for Technology and Design (SUTD) has released the 2020 Smart City Index(SCI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>About the index:<\/strong> The index ranks cities based on economic and technological data as well as by their citizens\u2019 perceptions of how \u201csmart\u201d their cities are.<\/li><li><strong>Cities Covered: <\/strong>Hundreds of citizens from 109 cities were surveyed and were asked questions on the technological provisions of their city across five key areas: <strong>a) <\/strong>health and safety <strong>b) <\/strong>mobility <strong>c) <\/strong>activities <strong>d) <\/strong>opportunities and <strong>e) <\/strong>governance.<\/li><li><strong>What is Smart City? <\/strong>In SCI&#8217;s context, &#8216;smart city&#8217; is described as an urban setting that applies technology to enhance the benefits and diminish the shortcomings of urbanization.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Topped by: <\/strong>Singapore has topped the index followed by Helsinki (Finland) and Zurich(Switzerland).<\/li><li><strong>Indian Cities:<\/strong><ul><li>Hyderabad was placed at the 85th position (down from 67 in 2019)<\/li><li>New Delhi was placed at 86th rank (down from 68 in 2019)<\/li><li>Mumbai was at 93rd place (down from 78 in 2019) and&nbsp;<\/li><li>Bengaluru at 95th (down from 79 in 2019).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Institute for Management Development(IMD) in collaboration with Singapore University for Technology and Design (SUTD) has released the 2020 Smart City Index(SCI). Facts: About the index: The index ranks cities based on economic and technological data as well as by their citizens\u2019 perceptions of how \u201csmart\u201d their cities are. Cities Covered: Hundreds of citizens&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-cities-slip-in-global-smart-city-index\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian Cities Slip In Global Smart City Index<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7908],"class_list":["post-17522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-global-smart-city-index","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704882399},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}