What are the best Smart cities in the world? Here are the 10 most innovative cities globally as of 2024.
What are the 10 most innovative cities in the world?
The ranking was provided by the Smart City Index 2024 created by the Smart City Observatory of the IMD World Competitiveness Center in collaboration with the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO) based in Seoul, South Korea.
At first reading, what catches your attention is that the so-called Smart cities in Europe and Asia are gaining ground globally, while the North American ones are falling in the rankings. Guiding the analysis is the observation of how much cutting-edge infrastructure and technology is actually available in a city, thus influencing the city’s performance and the quality of life of its inhabitants.
So, here’s the complete ranking of the 10 most innovative cities in the world.
The 10 most innovative cities in the world: 2024 ranking
Before delving into the list of best Smart cities globally, it is interesting to underline that a smart city is defined as “an urban context that applies technology to increase the benefits and reduces the defects of the ’urbanization for its citizens” in the report.
The cities in the ranking have also developed useful initiatives to satisfy their citizens’ overall quality of life, for example, through the development of green spaces and new and broader opportunities for cultural events and social relations.
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Not only that, the report highlighted that in many cases the cities cited in the ranking have devised innovative strategies to “attract and retain talent, selectively promote investment [for example in sustainability] and address long-standing issues related to geographical inequalities and inclusion”.
This is the ranking of the 10 most innovative cities in the world:
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Oslo, Norway
- Canberra, Australia
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Singapore
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- London, England
- Helsinki, Finland
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Curiosity: for the first time since the launch of the index in 2019, North American cities are absent among the top 20. The American city with the highest score this year is New York City, in 34th place, followed by Boston in 36th, and Washington DC, in 50th place.
While European cities dominate the ranking, Asian ones are also gaining ground. Singapore has consistently ranked in the top 10 since the index’s inception in 2019. Taipei City has also jumped 13 places in the past year, from 29th in 2023 to 16th this year. Beijing ranked 13th.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2024-04-28 08:06:00. Original title: Smart city, le 10 città più innovative al mondo
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