As part of CTG's Smart Cities Service Intergration project, Theresa Pardo and CTG graduate assistant Taewoo Nam traveled to Philadelphia to interview Mayor Michael Nutter, Managing Director Richard Negrin, and a many of their colleagues. The aim of the broader project is to create a framework for service integration for Smart Cities. The international research team includes researchers and graduate students from the US, Canada, Mexico, and China who are working to produce a series of comparative case studies of: Quebec City, Canada, New York City, Seattle and Philadelphia, U.S., Mexico City, Mexico, and Shanghai and Macao, China. In Philadelphia, the mayor's staff have been actively promoting the use of data and new technologies to create a citizen-centric service strategy, earning the city runner-up status in the category City of the Year in the 2011 GovFresh Awards, which honored the most innovative citizen and city and local government technology projects of the year. In addition, OpenDataPhilly won in the category Best Open Data Platform.
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