The G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance was launched last year to promote cities policies needed in order to adopt smart city technologies responsibly. Over the last year, the Alliance has assembled a global community of cities, institutions and leading experts to develop a policy framework that will guide local authorities with practical, implementable policies. Throughout this session, we will hear about this new framework and the cities that are taking it on.

Specifically, we will learn about: what the policy framework offers and our plans for its development, the five model policies that comprise the initial launch of the framework, and why they are fundamental to a smart city and, finally, the selected group of pilot cities that are currently adopting this framework.