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ARTICLE · 28 SEPTEMBER 2018

Dentons Smart Cities: Community Engagement In Smart City Planning

Smart cities have the ability to connect all infrastructure—electric, gas, water, communications and transportation.

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Smart cities have the ability to connect all infrastructure—electric, gas, water, communications and transportation. Smart city initiatives may empower consumers to make more thoughtful energy choices. Such choices may offer them energy use and bill management insights, allowing them to prioritize their personal or business goals as they relate to energy efficiency, usage and savings. These initiatives may also give communities tools to improve health, safety and transportation, and to address a host of other particular challenges in their local area.

Building broad community support for a smart cities/communities program is a complex process that requires significant outreach to and collaboration with a community. Communicating specific, tangible benefits of smart technologies, along with being transparent about the costs and investments necessary, must be done early and often in plain, easy-to-understand language. This is crucial to obtaining buy-in for any smart

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Dentons is the world's first polycentric global law firm. A top 20 firm on the Acritas 2015 Global Elite Brand Index, the Firm is committed to challenging the status quo in delivering consistent and uncompromising quality and value in new and inventive ways. Driven to provide clients a competitive edge, and connected to the communities where its clients want to do business, Dentons knows that understanding local cultures is crucial to successfully completing a deal, resolving a dispute or solving a business challenge. Now the world's largest law firm, Dentons' global team builds agile, tailored solutions to meet the local, national and global needs of private and public clients of any size in more than 125 locations serving 50-plus countries. www.dentons.com.

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