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“Deliberations
on smart cities
typically focus on
the technology
architecture issues
rather than the entire
enterprise architecture
landscape.”
Victor Alasia, Asset
Management Solutions
Architect, Colas Limited
“It’s not the
technology
that is
important in
smart cities,
it’s what
you do with
it – how do
you engage
people?”
Ronald Hendrikx, Partner,
Bird & Bird
“When we talk about ‘smart’, we don’t want
to limit the conversations to cities. At OS,
we give no fear nor favour to the urban
environment because everybody shares in
problems of mobility, of air quality, and the
need to make technology work for them.”
Miranda Sharp, Head of Smart Cities Practice,
Ordnance Survey
“Collection of large
volumes of data in an urban
smart city environment results
in both accidental and explicit
surveillance of citizens.”
Professor Balbir Barn, Deputy Dean, Middlesex University
David Brunnen, Editor, Groupe Intellex
“Because the funding is
in siloes, it tends to work
as smart water, smart
grid, smart this, smart
that… But they are all
in siloes, and you don’t
get the true, multiplying
factor you would when
you interoperate across
these things.”
The Earl of Erroll,
Vice Chair, Smart
Cities All-Party
Parliamentary Group
* Unless otherwise stated, quotations are based on the transcript from the 11 July 2017
Westminster Forum, ‘UK Smart Cities 2017: development, implementation and policy
priorities‘ and may not have been approved by the speakers
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“The examples are compelling.
The enthusiasm from the
emergent industry is beyond
doubt. The design talent is
brilliant. The business case
rationale for many point solutions
is investor-worthy. Support
from many corners of the wider
economy and central government
is well-aligned.”