A new way to help municipalities use Big Data and analytics to improve economics and address the strategic issues that are critical to their future.

When it comes to Smarter Cities solutions that combine analytics, mobile and social, cloud, Big data technologies and methodologies, Connectikpeople.co soon Retinknow®, sees what was unimaginable a decade ago:

·        enable a city to tell meaningful stories about what is going on in real-time through data,

·        to make data-driven decisions to rapidly transform the way they provide water, transportation and emergency management,

·        Allocate resources to sense and respond to challenges in city infrastructure,

·         improve economics and address the strategic issues that are critical to their future,

·        Provide city leaders with metrics to track performance improvement and ensure they are meeting their goals,

·        greater flexibility to see reality and turn data into decisions,

·        provide geospatial intelligence and analytics to help harness information and data from multiple sources to provide a central point of command for emergency management, to name a few,

With the Smart Cities’ concept, the goal is to provide predictive insight and help cities deliver better results by making sense of the massive amounts of Big Data generated

every day.

Our unique experience, when it comes to Big Data and Analytics technologies and methodologies, and as part of our global commitment, lead us to congratulate IBM for its solid efforts to help municipalities use Big Data and analytics via the cloud or on premise to improve economics and address the strategic issues that are critical to their future.

The cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Montpellier, France, are working with IBM to make data-driven decisions to rapidly transform the way they provide water, transportation and emergency management.

Connectikpeople.co soon Retinknow®, recalls that, the availability of three new cloud-based Smarter Cities management centers for transportation, water and emergency management aim to allow cities to quickly begin to use their own data, as well as open data, to attain new insight into citizen services and improve decision making for city leaders.

For citizens, Connectikpeople.co soon Retinknow®, observes that, this means improved access to city services, the ability to predict and respond to situations before they impact the daily lives of people, and enabling better feedback to empower citizens.

People for Smarter Cities, can provide citizens, academia and forward thinkers around the world a place to share ideas and engage in public discussions on how to make cities smarter.