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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Enhancing Innovation and Participation

become a link between the innovators and investors. Having this public-private connect is important as it
facilitates a coordination and efficient use of available resources.
Singapore has embraced the Smart Nation vision, in order to test and evaluate various technologies that can
potentially be of commercial or social use. The government not only matches capital and creates policies that can
help these technologies or ideas take root, but it also invests in the scale-up and dispersion of the product/idea.
With advanced communications, efficient living conditions, a well-planned transportation system, strong
infrastructure and its mutually beneficial partnership with ITU, Singapore serves as an example to the world, which
will effectively set the basis for smart cities in the future.

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