What makes a Smart City?

The My Kinda Place radio show, with Richard Motley from Integreat Plus in conversation with Dr Rick Robinson and Chris Dymond on the topic of "What makes a smart city?". Rick Robinson is IT Director for smart data and technology at Amey Plc, and is an international writer and speaker on smart city concepts and strategy. He is @Dr_Rick on Twitter. Chris Dymond is a director of Sheffield Digital, and runs the digital development agency Unfolding that helps organisations and cities develop digital applications and human networks. He is @chrisdymond on Twitter.

his is a recording of the My Kinda Place radio show on Sheffield Live from Thursday the 19th May, in which the host Richard Motley talked at length to Dr Rick Robinson and Chris Dymond about what a ‘smart city’ is, what is happening elsewhere in the world and what Sheffield might learn from it.

Dr Rick Robinson (@Dr_Rick) is IT Director for smart data and technology at Amey Plc, and  is an international writer and speaker on smart city concepts and strategy.

Chris Dymond, (@chrisdymond) is a director of Sheffield Digital, the association for digital industries in Sheffield, and Unfolding, which helps organisations and cities develop applications and human networks. He is also one of the organisers of SmartSheffield.

Richard Motley (@IAmTheMotman) is a director of Integreat Plus, a social enterprise set up to help support individuals, communities and businesses to achieve their place based ambitions, as well as being the host of My Kinda Place which goes out every Thursday morning at 9am on Sheffield Live.