A Strong Vision for Future Cities Lux Rao, Country Leader – HP Future Cities & CTO – Technology Services HP’s vision for Future Cities is one that is a self-sustaining ecosystem that allows efficient and effective utilization and management of resources like energy and water. HP’s vision focuses around a citizen and community centric approach that calls for open and collaborative systems allowing transparency and public access to data. Eventually, leading to citizen empowerment, effective e-governance and economic growth. HP will be focusing on: Health, Education, Citizen Services, e-governance, Security, Transportation and Utilities Infrastructure. External research as well as our experience in working with cities indicates that cities must address six areas that are very closely interrelated. These six components of a Future City form a tightly integrated whole, and all six must be considered when designing the next generation of services. They are – •...