![]() ![]() “We just have different priorities or slight modifications based on geography or environmental issues. “As municipal leaders, we all deal with the same issues,” Bob Bennett, Kansas City chief innovation officer and one of the conference speakers at the conference, said. The projects are intended to be scalable and offer the sorts of solutions other cities can then take on, “without reinventing the wheel,” Rhee explained. While a team based in Kansas City, Mo., has been developing an IoT platform to create a smart city network across the city’s downtown streetcar project. For example, a team from Singapore is exploring how to deploy a public Wi-Fi system in that country. The Global City Teams Challenge forms teams made up of representatives from the public, private and academic sectors to address smart city solutions. “So rather than just think, how quickly can be bring something online that makes the community ‘smarter,’ let's think of how can we put security on the front end of that to ensure that what happens is they don’t go down a path of networking a device, making something that smarter and then realizing a few years down the road, ‘Oh, now we need to find a security provider that can be added on to that.’” “As we network just about everything in our world, those cyberthreats aren’t going anywhere,” he added. ![]() ![]() “We think there’s a real opportunity as states think about how they’re going to deploy this technology to ensure that security and privacy concerns are brought in at the front end, so that you can avoid some of those common cybersecurity problems that we always talk about,” said Timothy Blute, director of the National Governors Association Future Office, and a speaker at the conference. ![]()
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