How To Build Smart Cities "Mindfully"

Update Nov 19th 2019. Google Analytics indicates this whitepaper has been download by 646 cities, 76 countries, 20 sub-continents and all 6 continents! These principles are being used across the world to build Smart Cities and Smart Regions. (regions in dark or light blue are using the principles to "build smart cities mindfully")

June 2019 - note from Matthew

These principles were used to help create the internationally recognized Colorado Smart Cities Alliance and the Colorado Open Lab.

The Colorado Smart Cities Alliance is the the US’ first state wide multi-jurisdictional and multi-stakeholder collaboration of cities, public, private, federal and education sectors.

Its purpose is based on Matthew's whitepaper “How to Build Smart Cities Mindfully” and is about Colorado stakeholders coming together to collaborate and innovate their future together. After all, it is about everyone winning not just one stakeholder.

Currently it comprises:-

• 20 cities from across the state from rural to Colorado capital Denver
• Private sector technology giants such as Hitachi, Arrow, DISH, Verizon, Trimble, and many others
• Education Institutions - such as CU, DU, CSU
• Federal Labs from the Innovation Corridor eco-system - NREL/NCAR
• Business communities led by the CTA
• Local governing bodies such as DRCOG
• Colorado Dept of Transportation

Furthermore, The Colorado Open Lab - the US' first state-wide innovation eco-system dedicated to fast tracking digital transformation of cities and regions across Colorado is also based on principles outlined within this whitepaper. Expected launch Q3 2019 - 12 months after it was formally announced at the Colorado Smart Cities Symposium Sept 2018.

July 2017 - Original text from the launch

As part of the launch of my blog, it is with great pleasure that I am able to make available a free advisory whitepaper outlining four principles that when applied, will help any locale to develop a blueprint and build the right version of their Smart City.

The principles outlined are open source and in deployment in initiatives that I am involved with. 

The whitepaper takes an evolutionary approach for transforming a locale into a Smart City phenomenon - the next natural stage to creating thriving economic and social fabrics.

The whitepaper is relevant for all Smart City, Smart Region stakeholders, whether they be from the public or private sector, academia or citizens. 

"Smart Cities are a turning point for humanity to create a new social fabric generating thriving and sustainable economies that tackle local and global challenges head on, the result of which, and my deepest hope, will be thriving and inclusive societies.” - Matthew Bailey - Denver World Trade Center - Smart City expert panel - Colorado May 2017

You can download the whitepaper from the blog (whitepaper section) or simply by either clicking the image below or the highlighted text below.

Have fun mindfully building your Smart City. Future generations will be thankful!

Download "How to build Smart Cities - Mindfully".

Acknowledgements

It is with deepest thanks and gratitude to Charles Cotton, Professor William Webb, Peter Riddles and Professor Alan Barrell for taking time to review and comment on this advisory paper. They are widely published authors and global gurus leading their field in technology clusters, innovation, education, IoT technologies, finance and business. 

Furthermore, I would like to acknowledge Denver South EDP - a forward looking economic development agency - a client with whom I have the enormous pleasure to work with, helping to shape and develop their Smart City and Smart Region initiatives.