We have seen great gains in terms of building resilience and tackling critical challenges by investing in smart city solutions but, as Michael Lake of Leading Cities highlights, we need to build the ecosystem to achieve so much more.
The finalists in this year’s QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge have been announced and will participate in a boot camp later this month to compete for $150,000 in pilot project funding.
The global competition offers total prize money of $150,000 in funding for the winning entrepreneurs or ventures to further develop their ideas and help to transform cities.
The 11 start-ups chosen are committed to tackling common urban challenges in areas such as air quality, carbon emissions, digital inclusion and congestion.
Through a media partnership, SmartCitiesWorld will support Leading Cities’ initiatives such as AcceliCITY and AcceliGOV that seek to solve urban challenges.
QBE AcceliCity programme will recognise and support innovators which leverage smart city solutions that help cities manage and respond to physical, economic and social risk.