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Five years ago last week, on June 1, I was lying barely conscious in an emergency room; it would be nearly a week before I could stand up without assistance. That was a milestone on a long midlife journey of breakdown and recovery that brought me back to these pages, and back to a role in journalism that I had thought would no longer exist by the time I hit 50. So when I read or hear, as one often does, that local news is dying . it hits a little different for me.
In 2016, as I was working myself to death, my non-journalism career was deeply entwined with City Hall. I labored alongside Steve Adler, the Austin Transportation Department, and a cast of hundreds to position Austin to win the U.S. Department of Transportation s Smart City Challenge. (That honor went to our swing-state friends in Columbus, Ohio, although Austin did get some consolation prizes.) And I had just presented to Council the final report of its Task Force on Community Engagement, which I chaired. Its top recomm
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ESI, itself a Singapore-based consultancy, in a separate section highlighted emerging smart cities that did not make the top 50 list. U.S. cities represented are Chula Vista, CA; Orlando, FL; Austin, TX; Pittsburgh; and San Diego.
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Singapore continues to lead the way in the ESI rankings, having occupied the top spot in the most recent 2018 edition. The rankings weigh a variety of metrics, including a city s vision, policies, leadership, budget, financial incentives, support programs, ecosystem of stakeholders and the government’s track record in executing successful smart city initiatives.
The report praises Singapore for its deliberate shift to deliver government services with more empathy and with the citizen in mind, while it said Seoul s use of data to deliver city services and partnerships with the private sector have helped elevate their service quality. ESI notes on its website it has worked on a consulting basis with Singapore on urban and