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The City of New York has been chosen as the Best Smart City of 2016 by the jury of the sixth edition of the Global Smart City Awards, announced at the Smart City Expo World Congress this week.
The NYC Strategy for Building to Smart + Equitable City initiative promoted by Mayor De Blasio‘s team earned the actual award for the Best Smart City of 2016. The ambitious plan to make the Big Apple a global benchmark for smart technologies is based on four fundamental pillars: LinkNYC, to expand connectivity among citizens; Marketplace.nyc and UrbanTech NYC to grow the innovation economy ecosystem, a program for piloting and making informed solutions about scaling smart technologies and finally a strategy for the responsible deployment of connected devices and IoT implementation.
The awards were presented earlier this week during a Gala held at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2016.
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