To become intelligent, green and inclusive is the future of any modern city and community. Smart cities, strategies and technologies, are generating interest globally to address the contemporary urban problems: rapid urbanization, stressed city finances, aging infrastructure, rising energy costs, global warming, bad ecology, and competition for global investment and skilled labor, urban poverty, social exclusion and spatial marginalization. The Sustainable City Program aims to build a new city or to transform any modern city as environmentally sustainable, inter-connected, instrumented, innovative, and integrated, regionally and globally attractive for businesses, citizens, visitors and investors. Considering the 21st century will be a century of cities, most global investment and public funding will go for innovative city projects. SUSTAINABLE CITY is to be managed by its urban brains, an intelligent city cloud smart computing platform, managing its resources, assets, processes and systems: Urban Land and Environment, Roads and Transportation, Energy networks and Utilities, ICT networks and fiber telecom infrastructure, Public and residential buildings, Natural Resources, Water and Waste management, Social infrastructure, Health and safety, Education and culture, Public administration and services, Communities and Businesses. THE I-CITY PLATFORM IS TO COLLECT BIG DATA FROM SMART COMPUTING, INTELLIGENT INSTRUMENTATION, SMART DEVICES AND SENSORS EMBEDDED IN ITS STREETS AND ROADWAYS, POWER AND WATER GRIDS, BUILDINGS AND OTHER CITY ASSETS, INTERCONNECTED VIA SMART COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, WIRED, WIRELESS AND MOBILE, USING SMART SOFTWARE FOR DELIVERING INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND SERVICES: DIGITAL CITIZENS, SMART POLITICS, SMART HEALTH, SMART EDUCATION, SMART HOME, SMART UTILITIES (WATER, ENERGY, WASTE, TRANSPORTATION, INFORMATION), SMART SAFETY AND SECURITY, ONLINE TAXES AND PERMITS, UTILITY BILLS, E-PAYMENTS, GIS INFORMATION ON CABLES, PIPES, WATER MAINS, TRAFFIC MAPS, CRIME REPORTS, EMERGENCY WARNINGS, CULTURAL EVENTS
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