The smart city market in Italy is constantly evolving, and investments in ICT solutions for smart cities are expected to grow to €1.6 billion by 2027. That is not all. From 2023 to 2027, smart city applications using 5G, IoT and artificial intelligence will help reduce city traffic costs by about €6.5 billion and more than €400 million for costs related to urban pollution thanks to better public and private transport and tourist flow planning. The new technologies will also make it possible to lower CO2 emissions by about 650,000 tonnes.
To talk about this, yesterday, in Milan, the “Italy of Smart and Sustainable Cities: Digital and Implementation Tools for the Local PA” roadshow kicked off, an initiative promoted by TIM Enterprise, the TIM Group's business unit dedicated to the public administration and companies and sponsored by ANCI, the National Association of Italian Municipalities.
The roadshow features a series of events to speak with local administrators about the opportunities and technology platforms available to local public administrations to build smart cities and achieve the country's innovation and digitalisation objectives set out in Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
Five regions from north to south will host the roadshow. After the Milan leg on 12 September, the other events will take place in Bari (25 September), Naples, Catania and Padua (9, 20 and 30 November, respectively) and will conclude in Rome in December.
In each meeting, we will discuss the importance of synergy between local administrations and businesses and what and how much the economic and social impacts of the new cities of the future will be on the urban environment and the lives of citizens, drawing on the success stories of the many administrations to which TIM Enterprise has already brought TIM Urban Genius solutions. Also guiding us is the “The Italy of Smart and Sustainable Cities” report, produced by the TIM Study Centre in collaboration with the CNR (Department of Engineering, ICT and Technologies for Energy and Transport), DIITET and the Smart City and Startup Intelligence Observatories of Politecnico di Milano. The study outlines the main perspectives for developing smart cities and provides public administrators with the evaluation tools needed to make our cities increasingly sustainable, safe and liveable.