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15 smart city building solutions to be suggested for Vietnam

Fifteen teams from eight countries, including two Vietnamese teams, have been selected to present their smart city building solutions at the Demo Day of the Global Smart City Innovation Challenge for Vietnamcompetition in November.
15 smart city building solutions to be suggested for Vietnam ảnh 1A view of Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) –Fifteen teams from eight countries, including two Vietnamese teams, have beenselected to present their smart city building solutions at the Demo Day of theGlobal Smart City Innovation Challenge for Vietnam (SCIC) competition inNovember.

The Mekong Business Initiative (MBI) opened thecompetition in July 2017, inviting entries suggesting solutions for challengesin developing smart cities in 12 fields specified by Vietnam’s localadministrations.

These fields include low-cost housing, efficientenergy use, traffic management and smart parking, water drainage and wastemanagement, urban agriculture, water treatment and clean water supply, publicsecurity and natural disaster monitoring, ecotourism and environment planning,health care, education, e-government, and trees and public space.

MBI Director Dominic Mellor said demand forinnovative solutions to develop cities in Vietnam has never been as big as now,with rapid growth and city dwellers’ surging demand outpacing infrastructure incities.

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SCIC will help Vietnam access technologies andsolutions already proving effective around the world. It will also help thecountry apply these solutions locally, he added.

This competition, sponsored by the AustralianGovernment and the Asian Development Bank, attracted 197 entries from more than30 countries.

The 15 selected teams will present theirsolutions to authorised agencies and potential partners and investors inVietnam in Hanoi on November 12 and 13.

The best three teams will receive cash prizes andhave the chance to take part in start-up acceleration programmes in Vietnamesecities to carry out their solutions.-VNA
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