FEATURE : SMART CITIES about privacy scandals , disruptions to jobs and other factors , but most respondents want their cities to be involved in Smart City initiatives . Citizens expect they will create job opportunities and executives hope they will spur innovation and create new market opportunities .
• Inevitable trade-offs to urban intelligence – particularly involving data – should not deter its development . Over two-thirds ( 70 %) of business respondents say the ability to access open government data is vital to their business . Nearly as many executives ( 69 %) say they are willing to share more data to secure the benefits of Smart Cities . Most citizens , too , are ready to share data with their governments if it means smarter public services . Some seem ready to compromise on privacy as well : twothirds ( 66 %) believe facial recognition technology will do more good than harm when used to fight crime .
• Some Smart City expectations will be tough to meet . Citizens ’ hopes for job creation and those of executives for new business opportunities will be difficult for Smart City programmes to fulfil ,
Andrew Brinded , Vice President and EMEA Chief Operating Officer at Nutanix www . intelligentcio . com INTELLIGENTCIO
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