Building a new digital city

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This week, we focused on our first client, Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone. The city of Chengdu is in the early phases of developing a new digital city, "Tianfu New City" by 2015. This city will a core area for the development of software and service outsourcing and science and technology as its principal function. Aspirations for the city concentrate on commerce, internationalization, fashion and livability. Over 600,000 people will live and work in this area of 37 square kilometers. The city will be supported by all facets of any other typical city in the world -- metro, hospital, shopping, restaurants and more.

The ICT subteam (Alfred, YY and myself) have formed recommendations for the development of Tianfu New City. In our recommendations, we answer Chengdu Hi-Tech Zone's five principal questions:

-- What are the standards and criteria for the digital city?
-- What are some world-class digital cities and what makes them successful?
-- What is IBM's experience in helping to build digital cities in the world?
-- How can we achieve sustainable development of the digital city?
-- What are IBM's recommendations on New Tianfu City?

We look forward to the presenting our recommendations on Tuesday.