Smart Cities – Delivery of Civic Services
Mumbai, 6th June, 2015: Vijnan Bharati, Mumbai in association with WeSchool organized a two day conference on Smart Cities, focusing on defining specific actionable, achievable and measurable objectives for cities and towns to evolve to ‘smart’ ones within their specific historic, social and environmental context.
Experts from academia, industry and government will be giving an overview on what smart resource management and delivery of services would mean and how it will improve interface between the citizens and local government.
Some of the key noteworthy speakers who spoke today included: Venkaiah Naidu, Minister of Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, S Ramadorai Adviser to the PM, National Council on Skill, Dr. Ketna Mehta, Faculty, WeSchool, Arun Nanda, Chairman, Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Ltd, & Chairman Organizing Council, Deepak Parekh, Chairman, HDFC, Dr.Madhavrao Chitale, Chief Mentor, Laureate, Stockholm Water Prize & Eminent Environmentalist , Thinker on Habitat issues