Digi-capital, Vienna, tops a „Smart City Index“

Vienna (OTS/RK) – Vienna is the smartest city in the world – this is the current „Smart City Strategy, Index says“. The study compares the 153 cities in the world, and collects, which commune the smart pay solutions for challenges such as rising population, transport and climate protection as well as digital solutions, the citizens Benefit. Vienna cuts in this year’s first place – for the second Time in a row. Already in the first Ranking of the 2017 Vienna was over the top. Behind Vienna London lands this time on the place; the city of St. Albert in Canada.

Vienna scores highly in the rankings with a Mature Smart City strategy is also implemented in concrete projects. „The Austrian capital, with its holistic framework, strategy and innovative solutions for mobility, environment, education, health and administration as well as monitoring the progress of individual projects“, – stated in the study. And: „Vienna scores highly, for example, with an advanced E-Health System and as the first German city to open government data.“ Overall, a rating for the Index twelve criteria and 31 sub-criteria. These range from the topic of Housing, infrastructure, business friendliness, education to the health care system. Vienna gets here, 74 of a total of 100 possible points.

Mayor Michael Ludwig does not want to rest on the laurels, as he stressed at the presentation of the Index today, Thursday,: „Vienna ends up in the Ranking in the front of and in Vienna as well life, is not a matter of course, and anything other than a ‚gmahde Wiesn‘. It is important to develop the city of the future and further steps to know initiate is based.“

This also speaks, that the study looks at the population rich Asian „Megacities“. Even more gratifying is the fact that Vienna has claimed as a nearly-two-million-city in the top.

The great challenge is to use the digitization to continue in the spirit of the city’s inhabitants. As an example of how the Vienna succeeds, was one of Ludwig, the „tell’s Vienna-App“, with the problems or concerns in the neighbourhoods directly to the city can be reported – or offers such as „my.wien“, with the Services of the city online and without trip to the office to do, such as the appointment of a Park pickerls, the Sign of a place in the kindergarten for the offspring, or the registration of a summer beer garden for restaurateur of the interior. „Vienna is not a city of two speeds, in which only the elites of the digitization benefit,“ warned Ludwig. Therefore, the city is set to digitize at a Recent – within three years, every urban school should be equipped with W-LAN; the elderly are, in turn, made the home-assistance System, „WAALTeR“ with the possibilities of digitization is familiar to you. In order to remain competitive in the future, builds on Vienna in addition, the digital infrastructure – for example, with the new wireless standard 5G mobile Internet.

For More Information:

* The whole „Smart City Strategy Index“ for Download:
www.rolandberger.de/pressemitteilungen

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