NYC Shines in Smart City World Expo Awards
New York City won a smart city award for using technology for change.
The Smart City Expo World Congress has given out awards to many cities, individuals for making communities around the world more livable, sustainable, and economically viable. The awards took place in Barcelona, Spain in late 2021.
The event is a 3-day congress and expo and has become the annual meeting for corporate leaders, public representatives, entrepreneurs, experts, and academics from all around the globe.
The categories that were announced were:
- Leadership
- Innovation Recovery
- City
- Enabling Technologies
- Energy and Environment
- Mobility
- Governance and Economy
- Living and Inclusion
- Safety and Security
This year was mostly given out to cities that involved their work in the pandemic. New York City had a multimillion project about open-access broadband infrastructure. The plan estimates that more than 2 million New Yorkers in the next 2 years will be built.
In a press statement from the Deputy Mayor for Administration and Chief of Staff Emma Wolfe, she said “The City is taking unprecedented action to make sure that the digital divide soon becomes a thing of the past. We’re not just connecting New Yorkers to the internet. With the City’s investment in both connectivity and new infrastructure, we’re ensuring that affordable, reliable, high-speed internet service will be possible well into the future.”
