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Events smart cities in the state. She acknowledged that social infrastructure has been neglected so far and to address this the Government is working on a new policy that looks at education and health sector with PPP (Public Private Partnership) playing a big role in these sectors. She also stated that with the technological capabilities of IT majors in Karnataka, the state can emerge as the forerunner in implementing Smart City concept in the country. According to Mr. Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal education Services Pvt. ltd, many of India’s growing cities are suffering from years of inadequate investment in basic (from left to right) infrastructure and specially technology infrastructure. Mr. Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Education however, these gaps have kept cities away from realizing Global Services Pvt Ltd; Mr Anil Menon, President, full potential and in turn leading to a small economic Smart+Connected Communities and Deputy Chief development and constraining the ability for city offcials and Globalization Offcer, CISCO; Ms Vandita Sharma, government to make informed, data driven decisions. Smart IAS, Principal Secretary, Infrastructure Development Cities should be created with a defnite purpose, with goals Department; Mr Kiron Shah,Convener CII Karnataka like reduced congestion, access to health, sanitation etc. It is Infrastructure Task Force & Managing Director & CEO also important to analyze what opportunities do development Velankani Information Systems Pvt Ltd; Mr Sandeep K Maini, Chairman , CII Karnataka, Director, Maini Precision of Smart Cities offer to Industry from an infrastructure and Products Pvt Ltd & Mr. G K Moinudeen, Director & Head, technology stand point. Mobility, cleanliness, safety and CII Karnataka State offce. During the Release of a green are key ingredients that create a city but how does Knowledge Paper on “Infrastructure and Technology the city become smart? Due to the complexity of the city Opportunities in Smart Cities” and the network impact of the city you require technology to understand and to optimize the use of resources in a city and the use a leverage of technology is what makes a city economy is already on us and India had beneftted from nd st smart. The development of smart city is hugely depended the 1 and 2 wave while the question remains if the rd on how comprehensively is industry able to respond to the country is in a position to take advantage of the 3 wave dynamically changing needs of city administrators and and this is what electronic City currently is doing. The 1st dwellers. wave was the globalization of IT services, the second Mr. Anil Menon, President, Smart+ Connected wave was the globalizing of engineering services but Communities and Deputy Chief Globalization Offcer CISCO, the third wave is larger than the frst two combined and said that the business opportunities in smart cities is sized that is the globalizing of urban services. The managing at $19 trillion worldwide and the managing of smart cities is of cities will soon become a global industry and a city a $3 trillion dollar opportunity. For India managing of smart no longer needs to be managed between its political and cities is a $35 billion opportunity over the next fve years. geographical boundary. Currently India has only about 30% urbanization while the According to Mr. Sandeep Maini, Chairman, CII world average is at 54% and it’s moving to 60%, if India just Karnataka, Smart City is the next big business opportunity reaches the world average we are going to have about 350 to for the industry. he called for greater synergy between all 400 million people moving from rural areas into cities which stakeholders and various projects run by the government, are unsustainable in the current scenario. so that the industry can capitalize on the immense Ms. Archana Vidyasekar, Team leader and Senior opportunity that lay ahead in the form of Smart Cities. Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan pointed out that needs of developing countries are different. Right now, burning need of India is energy and India must ensure a sophisticated renewable energy source. Mr. Anil Menon added that the third wave of the digital Vol: 3 Issue: 11 November 2014 Built Expressions PG145