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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Enhancing Innovation and Participation
skilling people based on the requirements of city, state and country level
employment generation at all levels.
These results are sustainable because once an infrastructure and process is created at the city, state or the country
level in a developing nation with a growth rate of 7.6 to 8.0%, these types of results would be sustainable.
Contributions
As pointed out earlier, for any city and for smart cities in particular, smart people are required to make the city
smart and sustainable. This project meets that objective.
3 Conclusions
The main lessons from this case study are that it is possible to make people smart by virtue of mass-scale skill
development and entrepreneurship, and thus dynamically respond to the needs of the city, state and the country.
The critical success factors have been the leadership at the government level, alongside the involvement of the
private sector and international players in the process.
The challenges are that in developing nations like India, there is a good section of the population, who are illiterate
and could have a problem in making use of this programme. Content in local languages are to be widely developed.
It is easily possible to replicate this concept at the city level and import it to other countries where this concept
has not been implemented.
With well-established processes and content in place, along with the dynamic policies of the government, this
project is easily scalable.
A References
(1) http://www.msde.gov.in/
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