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The Road to Inclusive Development

The Road to Inclusive Development

A smart city is not only about cutting-edge technology, gadgets guiding your lifestyle or using ICT (Information and Communications Technology) but also to string together a man-machine interaction that will drive our socio-economic engagement in the society.

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Big Data Analytics Is a Multi-fold Opportunity

Big Data Analytics Is a Multi-fold Opportunity

The first step in video analytics is to train artificial intelligence (AI). This requires AI to go through thousands of hours of video to 'learn' what different objects, such as people, cars, license plates and trucks are. Initially, a human must help the AI by tagging different objects, but very quickly the AI can self-learn and educate itself at a rate that is orders of magnitude faster than what people can do.

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Moving beyond Smart Cities

Moving beyond Smart Cities

An estimated 30 people will leave rural India for urban areas every minute during the next 20 years. At this rate, in the next two decades, most Indian cities are likely to double their size in terms of population and more than double in area.

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Bonding with the Best

Bonding with the Best

With 89 Smart Cities having initiated the credit rating process for municipal bonds, and instruments worth Rs.3,000 crore on the issue horizon, the fiscal future looks ideal for these prime urban spaces.

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Smart Development

Smart Development

'Has the Mumbai Revised Draft Development Plan (RDDP) 2034 of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) taken into the consideration the urban reforms suggested in the Smart City concepts launched by the Central government?' asked a senior colleague in a typically criticising tone, while the RDDP was still being prepared. Having been a part of the RDDP core team, it was natural for me to go on a defensive mode.

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