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Global technology major IBM on Thursday selected Ahmedabad and Pune as the only cities in India to be awarded with IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Grant for 2012 to provide the cities with access to company's top experts to analyse and recommend ways that will enable them to become even better places to live and work.
The IBM Smarter Cities Challenge is a competitive grant program in which IBM is awarding a total of $50 million worth of technology and services to 100 municipalities worldwide through 2013.
IBM experts will provide city leaders with analysis and recommendations to support successful growth, better delivery of municipal services, more citizen engagement, and improved efficiency, according to a release here.
IBM selected cities that made the strongest case for participating in the Smarter Cities Challenge. During these engagements, IBM technical experts, researchers and consultants will study local issues and recommend steps to the municipal bodies.
Among the issues they will examine are healthcare, education, safety, social services, transportation, sustainability, budget management and energy, said Ms Mamta Sharma, Manager, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, IBM India.
In 2008, according to the United Nations, more than half the world's human population began living in cities for the first time in the world's history.
India will need some 500 new cities in the next two decades.
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