1、Grow|Protect|Operate|FinanceOctober 2024 Dentons Global Smart Cities&Connected Communities Think Tank Annual Report 2024Dentons Global Smart Cities&Connected Communities Think Tank brings together the resources of the worlds largest law firm with leaders of government,businesses,academia,innovators

2、and stakeholders to craft cutting edge legal,economic and policy solutions to societal challenges in an era of accelerating technological change.Think Tank members work with city and community leaders to take advantage of technological developments to enable modernization and coordination of digital

3、,physical and social infrastructure to make delivery of public,private and hybrid services more efficient,cost effective,secure,equitable and socially beneficial.Nearly seven years ago,a small group of colleagues sought to align their efforts to harness technological advancements to modernize critic

4、al community infrastructure in a cost-effective and efficient manner in order to address a host of growing and overlapping societal problems.This collaborative conversation grew into our Global Smart Cities&Connected Communities Think Tank Initiative.Now more than 750 members strong,the Think Tank h

5、as convened in person and virtually more than 50 times to take on some of the most vexing,urgent and exciting challenges associated with modernized urban living.The starting point of our work came from alarming statistics about the coming massive surge in urban migration against a backdrop of insuff

6、icient and antiquated infrastructure,the global climate crisis,and increasing social unrest,on the one hand,and the rapidly increasing pace of technological advancements with applications that promise a more livable,sustainable,and connected future.For most of human history,and as recently as the tu