CIOs have vital role in developing ‘smart’ places
9 May 2014 02:41 PM
CIOs and heads of ICT
have a vital role to play in creating ‘smart’ places
– cities, regions or rural areas – where local leaders need to
bring together a locality’s natural resources and economic strengths
with an appropriate technical architecture.
Developing a smart vision for a
city, region or other local area is critical, and not doing so will
prejudice the well-being and life chances of citizens, says Smart places: smart infrastructure, systems or
people? the latest briefing from Socitm.
There is no single model for a
‘smart place’, and while designing one requires much more than
a technological infrastructure, that place’s CIO or head of ICT has
a vital role to play in developing the wider vision, by explaining and
integrating the possibilities of a digital future with
the community’s physical plans for buildings and infrastructure.
Thinking about the exploitation of information assets is equally part of
the ICT leader’s contribution.