It is estimated that the increasing pace of urbanization is bringing three million people into cities every week. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire population of Chicago moving into a city every week.
With that scale and pace of change, city leaders and governments around the world are under increasing pressure to solve for a variety of community challenges, with shrinking budgets. They are often left questioning how to find new opportunities to drive economic growth and operational efficiencies; how to attract investments into the city and create vibrant public-private partnerships; how to monetize data being collected by the city;