There was a project in copenhagen. The mayor came to us with a very precise question which was how can all of this data and Technology Help us to change and make the city more sustainable. If the go to copenhagen, traffic in the city looks like this. You had a lot of cars in the city center. Now they have 30 or 50s arm every day. 50 every day. You have this bicycle idea. I do not know if we can put the audio. This will give your energy. Despite changing the will you will save the energy. We can monitor what you are doing. The king collect information. They can collect information. All of these things you can share with your friends. A convicted on facebook. You can put it on facebook. It is a very good way to increase the number of sites in copenhagen. Instead collecting air miles, you collect green miles. This was the initial prototype. Now we have these in cars. We are getting very close to its. Publicly it will be here next year. Read it carefully, it will be here next year. Read it carefully, it will be here next year. Hopefully, it will be here next year. Come up on the stage. Is the Vice President and director of the metropolitan policy program at the brookings institution. He will be joined by a bunch of other panelists for how far can innovations take our cities. Thanks. While they get ready, i wanted to thank the sponsors here and think what you have done. You have taken a very broad view of technology and innovation. He said right at the beginning. It is not just about the next. It is about connecting the dots between technology and manufacturing. Technology and innovation is dry cities. Siddhis drive national economies. It took a long time for the it takes cities to drive the national economies. It took a long time for us remember that. We are joined by an adjunct professor at wayne state. Most importantly, he works for City Governments. Gordon feller, Michael Littlejohn and you have heard from carla. It is very hard to moderate. All i want to do is tweet. I wanted to start with a question that really build off presentation. This can be a very broad conversation. We are talking about efficiency and how we manage congestion and lower energies. We are talking about the integration of data. We are talking about participation was social media, coproduction of solution. David mentioned this. The United States is not quite at the vanguard of this. When i think it can just in, i think about singapore. He brought the copenhagen. I want to start with the ibm and cisco part of the world appeared word you see progress within cities . Where is the u. S. Part of the world. Where do you see progress within cities . Where in the u. S. . We can point to smarter transportation and Public Safety and health care. That is not necessarily a smarter city. As marchers city, and it was alluded to a number of times this morning, a smarter city, and it was alluded to a number of times this morning, is a city of the complex group of systems. How do you take advantage of the integration of those systems. This is where we are lacking. Take a building. You can have a building and you can implement the best building Information Management system that exists in the world. Then you can implement the best physical Security System in the world. You be doing pretty well. There is an opportunity there to even better your operation by integrating the two. Think of the additional insight you could game and have you could run and manage the building more effectively. The same principle holds true for a city. Why are we lagging other countries . Sometimes we cannot get out of our own way. It is the way we are organized. It is the way we make decisions that its in our way. Do you agree with that assessment . Are their pockets for the u. S. Takes Law Enforcement . There are exceptions. There are still exceptions. One reason let me now have concluded as the frame that is being used by policymakers, the frame is not about investing. It is about Capital Expenditures when should be about operating expenditures. The frame is about government as believed. Were trying to work with our customers in those cities where we see receptive ears a meeting the leaders are hungry for really profound changes in the way the city operates. Some of these are not the usual suspects. Chattanooga, not the city on because you would expect on the left bank or otherwise. They decided to make the investment in building out broadband to every building in the city. Piercing the economic benefits. It is not just the City Government. It was their other vehicles. They read things mark a were being smart. Ts are hard. He dock were trying to break down the silo which tends to be the frame for which they think about it rather than looking across all of the boundaries to say what is it that is going to force collaboration and open the system to open engagement. Some of the leaders have really done things that are pretty smart of things that harness not just the Wireless Networks but harnessing the public engagements. I wanted you to focus on this, giving presentation. Were talking about networks. Cities do not particularly function at networks in part because government tends to be very compartmentalized. Buildings are getting wired. Do you see at the u. S. At the city scale as the aspects of technological innovation . Are there some real opportunities given what we are seeing in some of the other global areas . You have to do cities. They are made of bricks and steel and concrete. How to combine all of this is something that we know how to do. It is more and more needed. This brings together different parts of City Government. Another issue is about integrating data. There are two ways to do it. One way is to do it at the top and promote integration at the top. This will work to such an extent. I feel the other way is what we have seen more and more of. They are really using this as integrators. This is becoming the integrator for this intelligence. As we have come back, i want to go to detroit for a bit. This is for the entire day. Where are those pockets of opportunity, particularly in the United States . The one thing about our system is that city x does something within two or five years and you see it spread through the system. And that regard we are highly entrepreneurial at the city scale with innovating and replicating innovation. I want to keep coming back to what are those pockets. We are in a great city. We are in a great metropolis. In many respects it is the tale of two cities. Complicated fiscal situations. Depopulation over a long time. Decentralization. If you take it up to midtown, all the is a sense of momentum. As you think about this question of the smart city, the integration of systems and data, what are the possibilities as detroit wrestles with some very hard fiscal and economic challenges . . Hat are the barriers ta that can potentially be removed. First of all, thank you so much for asking. I have lived in detroit my entire life, 40 plus years. Ive worked for the city of detroit over 20 years. There is definitely a focus on in condition of the cities america as well. What your overwhelmingly struck by is that there are so many breakdowns both with and City Government and with in the region. The st. Separate financial and government structures. This looks better than i have ever seen it. The benefits of that are not integrated into the Old Neighborhood questions. Within the city limits you have a tremendous overlap and overlay of governmental jurisdictions, a separate fundraising abilities. Within the region, as we try to address some of the environmental challenges, how do you bring all of these different entities under one page . I worry about the capacity for planning, the capacity to make use of a lot of these amazing innovations. That capacity is brought to make the reaching competitive in the development since. That capacity is with in City Government to make sure our inspectors even know what green roof is. How do you keep peoples skill sets up to date if you do not have the ability or mechanisms for reinvesting . It has so many layers to the problem. We are in such a weakened position that it has forced us to open ourselves to any method, of the it outsourcing or complete privatization. What is the advice for detroit . Overlap, overlay . There is no unified government. There is the capacity issue with an government. They are thinking how do i get a tghhe city . 60 din the city will not be able to harness the talent that is there that would give the city to the next place. How are we going to bring them into the process sitting where they are in universities and the private sector that are dynamic and interested in the city of the future . The city has to collaborate, at a harness that talent pool and give them the resources where is necessary. The city has the legitimization to say you are now the agent of change. It used to be the department of x and now it is another. This is hard to have. This might be years away. These are the years between now and when the city is Strong Enough to do it. This is part of the reinvention process, a figure out which types of Public Private partnerships are possible. We have seen really interesting ways of inventing the process of partnering that do not involve giving away public assets and public goods. The other thing, some structural changes will to the main to how government functions. Right now there are very few cities that have any type of an institute that is tasked with looking out across. The way agencies are set at now, they do not foster innovation. You can go to any agency in any city in this country and their project plan has been set up for the next threefive years. It does not foster innovation. Having created one that has empowered to find innovation and drive innovation across these agencies that has a budget is one of the steps to get there. If you created the office of innovation to get the process. This seems to me that it could work. I am not sure if they will have the topdown solutions. There is something else. Today there are a few ones to berlin. This is one of the magnet for people in europe. First of all, it has been cheaper in other places. The city became like an open platform. In some sense in this exciting. It is allowing people in. People are using this for different experiments. A lot of people would be excited to come here and develop new services. It is very exciting. You can do it but then a requires a lot of investment. Berlin is poor but sexy. If detroit wants to use that, if they can borrow it. I am spent most of this time in berlin at the guggenheim. They are getting richer richer in the sense of the economic activity. But it is really booming. These are not competing visions. The are complementary. The state has a very strong role. They began to the compartmentalize de compartmentalize this notion of what taken issue on energy efficiency, Greenhouse Gas emissions, which is very much of the building. Thus began to move out the building space. Are these competing visions or complementary . We can begin to move some of this coproduced solutions quicker. Coproduction in this case will be possible when and if some things happen. Some key institutions have to get together and say that we want transparency around energy consumption. What will it take to have itor we can access on our smartphone or schoolrooms that will tell them which of these schools are cleaner and greener and smarter than others . Something that would require collaboration that would open the utility to share the data, a lot of cities are now doing this to really change the game. Now i have access to knowledge that will then tell me which school is least efficient. Im going to focus on why that is inefficient. Is it not weatherized . Are the kids going to be the drivers because they will convince their parents that kids and parents will get the school room cleaner and greener . One key ingredient will be the collaboration that makes data possible. You talk to understanding what the problem is. I just finished up a piece of work for a Regional Economic develop initiative. They are trying to recover in bring businesses and individuals back to the region. They want their an exhaustive process of really soulsearching to try to come up what are the top three barriers to migration to that region . One was the transportation networks. How can we apply smarter transportation principles . The setup was access to water. Huckabee borrow and what the water authorities and others are using . This is focused on what are the problems. Lets attack those problems and take our breath and move on to the others. Folks have questions. The microphones are here. Think about the city as a network of players, some very large. They can take their own responsibility. They can take the lead in partnership with the government around certain set of issues. The point about what is the right issue to tackle, and the southeast there is no water. Last time i checked you have lots of water. There is any number of issues, whether it is around energy or education. This strikes me as a way to get around the challenge of government is dysfunctional and compartmentalize. You have a lot here. It seems like this might be part of the solution. Before i comment about that, i want to be sure that we do not forget those have been unemployed so long they are out of the workforce. Real question will skill readiness. I do not want to forget them in the equation. It is music my ears to hear the definition of the problem and information. It is music to my ears to hear that. We have a piecemeal approach of a couple of initiatives. Theyre really attract well to analyze and a city that is depopulating. Youre trying to talk about redefining wealth. I think of the outbidding the police cars with the cameras, everybody has done that i think. Both of those were seeded with grant money. When the grant ran out, we have not been able to keep up. There needs to be that money, whether it be federal or state. There needs to be this institutional approach that redefines. We have been praised cameras and police cars. We find a way even the technology at about 70 to the base price of the vehicle. They have the gps and whatever the technology is. We have to keep that for so many reasons. It does lead to back to that Institutional Capacity to plan and redefine Good Services and to find them. I would like to ask the question of carlo. Do you think keywords will do for the industry . What . Keywords. E mean it through the city . For Different Industries and what people respond to. Some people respond to google and other people respond better to craigslist. You are saying keywords. Sort of the search. How to search the key words. Yes. How to search the city . Yes. With key words. You understand what im saying . I understand key words. A lot people respond to certain words, right . Ok, keywords is words that a lot of people respond to, and in some people do not respond to. I understand, but you mean in terms of adding labels in the city . In which sense . Organizing concepts and also as [indiscernible] im not sure and the best person to answer this in terms of im not too familiar with detroit. You mean about key words in the city . In detroit, there are certain key words people respond to. It is kind of universal in a way or what language you speak, like keywords that an american would speak with and respond to a person that lives in singapore, more or less. Where i live, more people respond to craigs list, say, then google or ebit or Something Like that because it is more attached to their economy. Getting something for less. You know what im saying . I agree with you. To be honest, im not the best person to comment on the impact of this and how this could set in. I think you are also raising a broader issue, particularly with regard to the application and deployment of technology in different cities that have very different starting points, right . In terms of race, ethnicity, employment. So this conversation, which we sort of engaged on about efficiency, allocation you know, it is hard to translate it times. The interface of individuals to the tech and innovative economy is radically different in different parts of the country. I think that is an interesting question, particularly as it goes forward in a city like this, and theres a whole range of cities that have depopulated radically into the United States, you know, and have large unemployment. It changes, i think, the nature of the deployment or the nature of the exercise. I asked carlos because i thought he was more of a technical person. I may be the least technical person, though i do twi like a maniac. Next question. Does so a venture for america fellow in the city of detroit, and also at next energy center, and i have a question for all of you one of the things that ive heard talked a lot about here is that this technology, the software, the Data Collection is a means to an end, and one of the things that ive noticed within the under pressure community in the United States and the conversations surrounding it is that the end is some type of, like, social Media Application or some type of app. I wanted to ask you all what you thought about connecting the two because i think theres enormous power in social media as a means to an end, but the conversation is too often as an end in itself. How do you think we can bring the two together . What applications or how can we get that conversation started . In my field, energy and Renewable Energy that type of leveraging Knowledge Technology or Information Technology could be incredibly powerful, but i think there is a divide between the two cultures. Absolutely. Great question. Thoughts . Comments . We talked to a lot of mayors who want to create networks of allies for the projects that the cities are undertaking. Partly because they want to have access to all that knowledge and resources that that social network can help the city tap, and that is an understandab