Singapore, Helsinki (Finland) and Zurich (Switzerland) were named the smartest cities in the world this year and have managed to outperform other European and global primary monetary centers, according to the Smart Cities Index report for 2020.
Geneva is the Swiss city ranked among the 10 smartest cities (in seventh place).
The report published through the Institute for Management Development (IMD) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
The 2020 Smart Cities Index ranked 109 cities, 7 more than the inaugural 2019 edition. The rankings were decided using economic and technology data. The Index also took into account local citizens’ perceptions of how they think their cities are “smart. ” It was published under the direction of the IMD Smart City Observatory (SCO).
The effects of the 2020 index are intended to provide data on how virtual generation plays a vital role in supporting facilities critical to the COVID-19 crisis. According to the report, there is a positive correlation between “smarter” peoples and those that respond to the maximum. coronavirus.
In each of the cities classified this year, 120 citizens were asked various questions in April and also in May 2020 about the technological provisions of their cities in various areas, adding fitness and security, mobility, activities, opportunities and governance. one one town we decided using the “perceptions” of the last two years according to which the survey was conducted.
The 3 “smartest” cities in 2020 are a reorganization of last year’s rankings. In 2019, Singapore finished first, Zurich came to the moment and Oslo (Sweden) in third place. Some of the most notable effects and possibly the maximum significant effects of smart cities in 2020 The index has occurred in underdeveloped cities around the world.
The report notes that if we added loose Internet or WiFi to a city like Medellin (which has risen 19 places in the ratings by 2020), citizens would have noticed a positive replacement in their quality of life with fairly significant technology.
In particular, a technologically complex city like Zurich has citizens who naturally expect primary adjustments or innovations to existing technological responses before “perceiving” that something has become bigger than before.
The Singapore government has presented several projects that are likely to continue with the adoption of virtual generation in the Asian country. Financial generation corporations such as Active. ai Cardup, financial corporations, PolicyPal and Transwap will obtain new investments from Singapore’s AMTD Group.
Razer Fintech and Franklin Templeton will provide virtual wealth control to millennials in Singapore and other Asian countries.
At the same time, in Switzerland (a country that hosts smart cities such as Geneva and Zurich), the SIX Group will use Luxembourg’s Open Banking generation Fintech LUXHUB to optimize the Swiss monetary sector. Credit Suisse Suisse will also release banking only through apps to compete with Fintech Challengers.