How can digital tools advance social and economic developments in cities? Image source: Shutterstock (#572303806)
At the Smart Cities Connect Conference at the Austin Convention Center, US Ignite and the National Science Foundation announced the five cities that have recently joined the Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC) program. Washington, D.C., Albuquerque, Phoenix, San Diego and the Jackson Energy Authority in Tennessee will help the cause to expedite “the development of advanced gigabit applications that cannot run on current networks as the bedrock of smart communities by identifying new economic and social opportunities created by those applications,” as per the SGC website.
The cities, which will be joined by two others in the coming weeks, making it a total of 26, are supported by the National Science Foundation to use its physical and wireless network infrastructure as an enabler of smart applications to solve specific community problems.
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