Smart Cities: Emerging Markets Leveraging Emerging Technology
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Argues that “smart” is human behavior not gadgets, citing Stockholm’s QR sticker on rubbish bins that crowdsources fullness and cuts sensor maintenance costs versus expensive IoT bins, and an open-source app reused by Ukrainian cities. Notes mobile transactions jump fivefold in Rwanda, blockchain lowers transactional friction and scales on cheap smartphones, and a Vienna pilot tokenizes CO2 reductions to change behavior — pilots in poorer regions often provide the user numbers needed to prove solutions.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:10Smart Garbage Bins
- 7:17Matic Solutions
- 14:37Broad Change
- 17:18Automation
- 19:49Cities
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