The city of Shanghai (China) has been chosen as the Smart City of 2020 at Smart City Live, the most digital edition of the Smart City Expo World Congress, the international summit on smart cities organized by Fira de Barcelona.
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Shanghai's smart city plan (2016-2020) has won the award in the city category. This plan is focused on the development of a wide range of citizen resources, including the deployment of a universal digital infrastructure, an e-government platform, a city brain, and an information technology and industry integration program. According to Fira de Barcelona, the strategic objectives of the plan and its achievements have been key to the jury's decision.
Under the name Smart Shanghai---People-Oriented Smart City, the project foresees the deployment of the necessary digital infrastructure to become the first Dual Gigabit city, achieving full 5G coverage in the urban center and also reaching 99% Gigabit fiber coverage in the city.
In addition, the e-government initiative has managed to become a useful tool for its citizens and has already registered more than 14.56 million users among a total population of more than 24 million.
Awards for the most outstanding urban transformation projects
The World Smart City Awards are presented each year to recognize the most outstanding initiatives and projects in the urban innovation and transformation industry. This year, a new category has been created, that of covid-19 Innovation, and the award has gone to Werkit (United States) for a project to improve work in Zambia.
The remaining awards ---Enabling Technologies, Urban Environment, Mobility, Governance & Economy, and Living & Inclusion--- have gone to the municipality of Shenzhen (China); Siemens and Microsoft; Pantonium Inc. (Canada); Zencity (Israel), and the Government of the State of Alagoas (Brazil), respectively.