The Smart Cities and Stakeholders Platform Team http://eu-smartcities.eu/ @EUSmartCities

Show to the World that You are a Smart City

Are you on the right track to become

a Smart City? It is said that the future

of the world will be decided by the

quality of its cities, and it is expected

that by 2020 over 40 urban areas will

turn into Smart Cities.

However, the Smart Cities Global

Initiative is concerned about the large

variety of narrow technical visions,

models and approaches in which on

many occasions “the push

towards smart cities is being led by

the wrong people –technology companies with naïve visions and short term

commercial goals–, while the architects, planners and scientists often struggle to share

their specific knowledge”.

That is why this initiative is looking for megacities, municipalities, communities or brand

new cities that are following a smart community development strategy aiming to unify

all the city systems, services, operations, activities, departments and agencies as a

sustainable smart urban ecosystem.

The applications have to provide evidence that the city has potential capacity to take

profit of the intelligent resources offered through the Smart Cities Global Initiative. They

also have to prove that their transformation into a Smart City has a strong leadership

and that it has strong intentions to invest intelligent and financial capital into smart and

sustainable urban development.

The selected urban entities will be provided with intelligent property investment as well

as sustainable city exclusive education and training.

You can submit your applications via e-mail to Panayiotis Ioannou, Executive Manager

of EIS Smart City Global Initiative, at smartcity@cytanet.com.cy until the 15th of July.

For further information on the Smart Cities Global Initiative, consult the online brief guide.