We’re living in exciting times, wherein paradigm-disrupting technologies are emerging with regularity. Connectivity is undergoing evolutionary changes, with many possibilities, some of them still unthought-of, are hanging on horizon. Digital intelligence is going to be integral in powered products to add functionality and value to them. Smarter Future, rides on instant connectivity and unification of data and power.
For people all over the world, internet-use has become conspicuously inescapable for normal routines of life. The development and diffusion of digital technologies has had a positive impact on every layer of our societies. Digital efficiency touches our lives at multiple points throughout the day, in many obvious and unobvious ways. We’ve unprecedented access to data now, which enables us to make more informed and better decisions.
Smart and connected ecosystem offers enormously expanding opportunities for multiple functionalities. It has brought in far greater reliability in executing and getting services, that cut across and transform social and economic landscape. From the perspective of education, a connected ecosystem has all the potential to facilitate universal quality education and significantly enhance learning outcomes in our country.
Smart City, as a concept, is still evolving. But by now, at least we know that a city gets branded as a Smart City, only when the governance there starts collecting, analysing, integrating and using the digital data to run the city and provide welfare to the citizens. Data is the core for Smart City transformations. The role of big data in the development of a Smart City and its sustainability is a known fact now.
We’re increasingly getting digitally dependent in our work and life. Digital way of life has become a new normal. There has been a rapid digital adoption in education as well in recent times. Smart Education has enabled students and learners to learn more effectively, efficiently, amenably and comfortably. Smart Education is more personalized in its way with smart devices and digital resources, lodged at data-networks.
Cities around the world are revisiting the fundamentals, after being hit by an unprecedented global pandemic. More preparedness for any health-crisis or pandemic has gained increased focus in the concept of a Smart City now. The transformation has started to create urban solutions that minimize the susceptibilities of a Smart City to known or unknown disasters.
