The federal government’s Smart Cities Challenge will help expand the innovation economy by making public the huge amounts of data municipalities collect, says Kurtis McBride, co-founder and chief executive officer of Miovision.
McBride is among the technology experts Ottawa consulted when it designed the challenge, a nationwide competition that will see one municipality win a top prize of $50 million.
McBride, along with the University of Waterloo, Communitech, the Canadian Council of Innovators and several technology companies in Waterloo Region all, stressed that open data makes a city smarter.
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