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Empowering India Digitally Through Connected Platforms

“The Draft Personal Data Protection Bill is a foundational framework that aims to lay down the key principles governing the protection and privacy of personal data. This will spell out the rights of data principals- whose data is being processed and the responsibilities and obligations of Data Fiduciaries, to whom such data is entrusted for processing”, said Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology,(MeitY), Government of India, in conversation with Poulami Chakraborty & Dr. Rajeshree Dutta Kumar of BW SmartCitiesWorld.

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Is the Indian real estate market prepared for the next wave of urban influx?

Rapid urbanization in India means that our top cities are approaching an affordable housing crisis and as a nation, we are not yet fully prepared.

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Nutanix Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Earlier, Nutanix was also designated as a March 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice vendor for hyper-converged infrastructure.

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Futuristic Smart City for Sustainable Livelihood

“As a part of the Green City initiative, we have requested each and every councillors to plant a sapling in their wards, which we have mandated to construct public green spaces for citizens with eco-friendly materials. This initiative is a way forward to enhance sustainable living for the citizens. These open spaces are called ‘Neighbourhood Parks’”, asserted an enthusiastic Secretary, Port Blair Municipal Council, Suneel Anchipaka in a conversation with Poulami Chakraborty of BW SmartCitiesWorld. Excerpts as under:

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Smart Cities & Urban Innovation- state of Israeli Urban Innovation

While Israel, like many other countries, still follows the “6 vector paradigm” (Smart mobility, People, Economy, Environment, Government and Living, known as Boyd-Cohen’s Smart City Wheel), more and more Israeli cities are freeing themselves from the ‘big-vendor-oriented solutions’. Instead, they are adopting challenge-based processes focusing on solutions that can improve lives and the cost-efficiency of governing cities with dynamic changes striving to be real smart cities. Writes Architect Rafi Rich, SUiTS & MiDCityLabs IL. .

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Videonetics helps the ‘Orange City’ of India become a Smart City as well.

Videonetics has supported Nagpur in achieving the Smart City status, under the Smart City Mission of Government of India, by securing its roads with an AI & DL powered Intelligent Traffic Management Solution. The solution has helped the city to solve its traffic enforcement problems such as red light jumping, zebra crossing/ stop line violations, over-speeding violations, tracking of suspect/ stolen vehicle, and generating e-challan/ e-ticket for violators as per the Motor Vehicles Act. It includes applications like Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), Red Light Violation Detection (RLVD), Integrated e-Challan Management Software.

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Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA) inks pact with Cisco to make the city Safer and Smarter

The state of the art command center will be a nodal point for traffic management and city surveillance, and soon bring in other utilities such as waste management, water, lighting, parking, urban mobility, and power distribution. Powered by Cisco’s Smart City digital solutions, the ICCC will offer a unified management experience for city infrastructure, simplifying control room operation and system integration, while increasing operational efficiency and lowering operating costs.

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Progressive Strategy Transforming Andaman to Mega-city

“IT inventions are the bedrocks are the base of smart cities development. Andaman has a submarine under-cable project underway, and by June 2020, the lack of connectivity may be a thing of the past. We are in the process of bringing about Rs 20,000 crores of investment to the islands from private stakeholders in the next 4 years, and Rs 30000 crores till 2025”, asserted an optimistic Chetan B Sanghi, Chief Secretary, Andaman & Nicobar Administration in a tete-a-tete with Poulami Chakraborty of BW SmartCitiesWorld. Excerpts below:

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Anchoring Smart City Overhaul in Island Territory

“Declared as a Smart City, under the Smart City Mission of the Central Government in 2016, Port Blair has project size worth INR 770 Crores, which is further expanded to project size of INR 1100 crores with recommendations from local administration. A lot of leg work has happened till date in identifying aspects which can get off the ground to an implementation stage, with a fund of INR 200 crore being released by the Government of India, till date”, asserted Vikram Dev Dutt, Principal Secretary, Urban Development, Andaman and Nicobar Administration in a conversation with Poulami Chakraborty of BW SmartCitiesWorld. Excerpts below:

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Game-Changing the Smart City Mission

“The mission is proving to be a game-changer in the urban transformation of our country. The mission is proving to be a game-changer in the urban transformation of our country. It is arguably the largest and most complex urbanization initiative on the planet, catalyzing investments of Rs. 2 lakh crore for the development of 100 Smart Cities”, asserted Kunal Kumar, Joint Secretary and Mission Director, Smart Cities Mission, Government of India in a conversation with Poulami Chakraborty and Dr. Rajeshree Dutta Kumar, of BW SmartCitiesWorld. Excerpts Below:

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