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Smart city safeguards

Lab process helps Canadian municipalities ideate, prototype, and test data governance frameworks

by SODHI Z, RAJVANSHI S
Smart city safeguards
Published in March 2022

Smart cities promise municipalities the ability to better understand and act upon urban challenges, from enhancing service delivery to increasing economic growth. Central to the smart cities promise is data – vast amounts of data generated through different sources – that municipalities seek to harness for value.

However, if municipalities have learned anything from Toronto’s high-profile experience with Google’s sister company Sidewalk Labs, it is that smart city initiatives require data governance safeguards. Why? So

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