Vikas Kanungo is a Senior Consultant, Digital Development Global Practice, The World Bank and has been working in the field of ICT & Development for almost three decades with various national and global agencies. In this episode of 'Understanding the Future of Digital Urban Governance' with Vikas Kanungo, we explore how the digitisation of urban governance will help the municipalities in the future.
We start with exploring what is digital urban governance and what are the major challenges in achieving it. We further explore how national-level frameworks are being developed to facilitate digitisation at the state and the city levels as well as the rise of cyber-physical infrastructure in the future. He emphasis on the use of design thinking process as well as technology like verbal commands in local languages for lowering the entry barriers for the citizens. At last, we explore the topic of open data & industry 4.0 in municipalities and the skill sets required in the future in this sector.
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