As smart cities become the new normal, how can city governments step up their game and go full-throttle towards realizing this dream? Citizen participation is an area where smart city pilots around the world have tended to perform the least well on. A remarkable example where citizen engagement has improved the city is in Vienna, one of the world's leading smart cities. How might other city governments engage their citizens to build and deploy smart cities? However, can a senior navigate the smartphone-driven, app-fueled world of a smart city with the same ease as a millennial?

Source: Huffington Post November 26, 2017 16:07 UTC