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World Cities Day address urges people-centered 'smart cities' to tackle global housing and digital exclusion
Summary
In a World Cities Day address, a speaker urged urban leaders to make smart-city technology serve people, citing billions living in inadequate housing and offline. The speaker called for linking digital tools to housing, land rights and basic services ahead of the World Urban Forum in Baku in 2026.
A speaker at a World Cities Day address urged urban leaders to prioritize people-centered "smart cities" and to connect digital innovation with housing, land and basic services.
"Every city should be a place of opportunity for all. But in today's world, too many people are being left behind. Nearly 3,000,000,000 people live in inadequate housing. More than 1,000,000,000 live in informal settlements and slums. Over 300,000,000 are…
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