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ETHICS EVENT: Columbus, One Smart and Sustainable City – Using Innovative Technology to Improve People’s Access to Opportunity

Smart Columbus
April 18, 2017
7:15 am - 9:45 pm
The Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center

The Environmental Professionals Network presents

 

"Columbus, One Smart and Sustainable City – Using Innovative Technology to Improve People’s Access to Opportunity"

 

Aparna Dial

 

Aparna Dial is Deputy Director, Dept. of Public Service, City of Columbus.

The City of Columbus won the U.S. Department of Transportation $40 million Smart City Challenge in June, 2016 after competing against 77 cities nationwide to implement a holistic vision for how technology can help all residents to move more easily and to access opportunity. Columbus was also awarded a $10 million grant from Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. Foundation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the de-carbonization of the electric supply and transportation sectors. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced February 22nd   that between those grants and the growing list of local match projects, including several OSU research projects, the Smart Columbus project has about $417 million in resources to turn Columbus into the testing ground for intelligent-transportation systems. The City’s total goal for Smart City and related projects by 2020 is $1 billion.

For more information, please visit the official event page.