BrandPost: Operating a City in a Big Data Environment

Covid-19 has significantly affected the way in which cities, states, and countries are conducting their businesses; it has affected the global economy; and has of course had a significant impact on what public services citizens expect from their governments.

Informed decisions should be made based on real-time data. Otherwise, it is not different from answering today’s questions with yesterday’s answers. Policies just can’t catch up with reality.

Big data can provide powerful insights into government operations and improve performance but getting it wrong can lead to unreliable conclusions and poor policy development.

The response to the pandemic has demonstrated that governments can move fast to provide solutions in the short term. Over the next several months, governments will be looking for solutions to help them bring back some form of normality to their operations. Huawei big data technology can help them in that journey.

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