It's really about leveraging technology to
address people's basic needs, the demands
that they ask from government and to make
that as seamless a process as possible, so
that government really is an amenity for your
life and really out of the way when you don't
need it.
There are people who are legitimately worried
about the potentially disruptive role that
technology can play. So take a look at Uber - the existing taxi industry's pretty upset,
but Uber has a set of current drivers who
soon are going to be disrupted by driverless
cars. So all of the Uber drivers aren't going
to have jobs either, right. And so there is
this kind of churn and dislocation that can
come from technological innovation. So the
question for us is how do we really be smart
about technology and the way that we apply
it to cities so that we kind of harness the
power of technology to achieve the kind of
smart city goals that we have, right. To bring
people together, to bring cities together,
to make them work more effectively and efficiently
for everyone.
Change is a constant. And we have to make
sure that we create smart cities that can
embrace change, embrace innovation and make
sure that innovation is inclusive so that
everybody benefits.
