Protecting citizens private data while stimulating innovation in cities is one of the key paradoxes that smart cities have to face.
I am proud to have contributed to a landmark white paper issued under the authority of H.E. Mesfer Almesfer, CISO of Neom (Saudi Arabia), entitled ‘Securing the Future of Urban Living’. You can find the report here.
Together with fellow contributors Fahad Al Qahtani (NEOM) , Dr Husain Aldawood (NEOM), Clay Garner (SmartCitiesWorld) , Dr Lee McKnight (Syracuse University), Chris Cooke (SmartCitiesWorld), Yusuf Abdul-Qadir (Syracuse University), Samir Aliyev (Swiss Cyber Institute), Daniel González Bootello (Smart City Cluster, Spain), Eduard Dumitrascu (European Smart Cities Association), Romania), Hussain Alebnalshaikh (University of Wollongong, Australia), we worked for over the year on this important document, in which we stress a few key recommendations and key principles, including:
(1) ➡️ The critical importance for smart cities to provide a solid regulatory environment within which citizens, service providers and city managers can operate with a sufficient level of predictability and trust.
(2) ➡️The strategic value of public-private partnerships (PPP) through which rapid responses and solutions can be deployed with due regard for privacy and security
(3) ➡️The urgent necessity to broaden the talent base available in cities to imagine, deploy and manage the safe and secure systems that will be key to keeping our cities human-centric (as opposed to technology driven).
