Smart City – Smart Life Dubai: Expo 2020

Sign’s account of the progress being made by Dubai regarding the global move towards a smart city culture is interesting. It is a cultivating analysis that discusses key elements that need at least to be achieved before the 2020 Expo but also mention some of the shortcomings experienced at the moment. The story instillshope in sustainable development, and one feels immersed in a smart city through imagination. Knowing that the idea of a smart city requires smart people engaged through e-participation is also inspiring. After all, it is the ensuing smart government, smart living, smart mobility, et cetera, that meltdown into a smart economy.  

Apart from telling about Dubai’s steps so far, the article proposes advanced levels that are being striven for buy innovators. It is also not a single point of view because it acknowledges the sectoral disparities in the race to Expo 2020 (Singh, 2015). Therefore, although the smart-city smart-life global agenda is real, some countries lag much more behind. The same applies to some aspects of life within the Dubai authorities. Furthermore, it is important for one to be critical of the technology propelling this agenda. It may eliminate some challenges, but the truth remains that everything human-made is subject to forces of nature. 

BhopendraSingh’s “Smart-City- Smart-Life-Dubai Expo 2020” is illuminative and can be used beyond the university projects to inspire developers and countries that are not making quick progress in such ideations ideation. The proposed areas of digitization can also inspire further technological research resulting in innovation, and discoveries. In the long run, this accelerates the speed at which the smart-city smart-life drive heads to.