November-20176GOVERNMENT CIO OUTLOOKEDITORIALRowing Towards a Smarter FutureAccording to the United Nations Population Fund, 66 percent of the global population will live in urban areas by 2030. This not only represents a massive challenge in how cities are built and managed, but also endows a significant opportunity to improve the lives of billions of people. Rising to this challenge, organizations worldwide are searching for new approaches and solutions that will improve city transportation, water and waste management, and energy usage, along with managing a host of infrastructure issues to ultimately strengthen the operation of cities and the lifestyle of urban citizens.Underpinning the evolving smart city strategies are a number of broad Information and Communication Technology (ICT) trends that are enabling key segments, such as energy, transportation, and urban planning, to exploit new technologies to deliver smart solutions to cities and citizens. Although from a technological perspective, organizations and government agencies need to address a complex set of challenges to build a comprehensive and `smart' ecosystem. For instance, there is a significant amount of data generated from a smart city's daily operations, which is of high volume, real-time, and extremely heterogeneous in its sources, formats, and characteristics. The management and analysis of this data can offer insights and economic value that cities can leverage to improve the efficiency of operations and deliver innovative and new services. However, many organizations lack the potential and scale to achieve this and hence they must work in collaboration with partners from other technology segments.Curating content for this edition has been an innovative experience by diving into a plethora of service providers, changing trends, needs of the hour and a glimpse into how the world of smart solutions would turn out to be. We hope the valuable insights from industry thought-leaders and the innovative solutions from leading as well as emerging companies featured in this edition will help you in making informed decisions for your endeavors.Copyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.NOVEMBER 10 - 2017Managing EditorBecky Graham Editorial StaffSalesAva GarciaJustin SmithSarah FernandesVisualizerChetan.NSmart Solutions SpecialFred Winterfred@govciooutlook.com510-565-7627 Aaron Pierce Joshua ParkerKristine BrownTo subscribe to Government CIO OutlookVisit www.govciooutlook.com Becky Graham Managing Editoreditor@govciooutlook.com*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffMailing AddressValley Media, Inc.44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510 230 0396, F:510-894-8405 November - 10 - 2017, volume 03 - 07 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.
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