City Life

Welcome to the age of the city. Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas, and by 2050, about 70 percent of the world’s population is expected to reside in urban areas. The explosive growth of cities and the rapid uptake of broadband are both happening at a time when the world faces serious economic, environmental and social challenges. Ensuring that our cities are creative, connected and sustainable is a major challenge but also a tremendous opportunity. By transforming our cities, we can improve the lives of billions of people along with the health and future of the planet itself.

How ICT can help cities solve problems

In the second part of The Networked Society City Index films, Patrik Regårdh looks at how cities are improving literacy, education, healthcare and sustainability using user case examples from Singapore, Sao Paulo, Paris and more.

Videos

City life: how satisfied are you?

A new report from Ericsson ConsumerLab looks at the highs and lows of city life. For urbanites, connectivity, water distribution and social life are all highly ranked, while air quality and parking get lower scores.

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Highlights

Reports

Megacities Report

The Next Age of Megacities takes a closer look at how the largest cities in the world can use ICT to address their evolving challenges in a holistic, proactive and collaborative way, through a city management model.

The Next Age of Megacities

The Three Ages of Megacities

Networked Society City Index reports

The Networked Society City Index report explores the correlation between cities’ ICT maturity and their triple bottom line development.

Networked Society City Index – enterprise

Networked Society City Index – society perspective

Networked Society City Index – citizen perspective