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In a latest interview published in The Canadian International Council (CIC) website Mrs. Saskia Sassen, professor of sociology at Columbia University, presents her vision of a smart city.
‘¦ a genuinely “smart’ city will use the most advanced technologies largely ‘“ though not exclusively ‘“ to make the city function as an open-source system. One aspect of such a city, and it is only one, is that knowledge is crowdsourced and all the information, all the feedback, can be interpreted and used at some point ‘“ by other machines, by citizens, by urban governments. It won’ t necessarily all be used, but the possibility, at least, is there.
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The Canadian International Council (CIC) is Canada’ s foreign relations council. It is an independent, member-based council established to strengthen Canada’ s role in international affairs.
Mrs. Saskia Sassen, professor of sociology at Columbia University, is a leading expert on globalization, human migration, and global cities.