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# Smart slums: utopian or dystopian vision of the future?#ict4d
- URL: https://gnucoopcom-u2056.vm.elestio.app/blog/smart-slums-utopian-or-dystopian-vision-of-the-futureict4d/
- Published: 2014-11-06T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-06T09:00:00.000Z
- Author: Gnucoop Soc. Coop.
- Tags: #tk-104, #Import 2026-09-12 16:33

The idea of the smart city is a vision of a networked urbanism. The promise is that environmental monitoring and feedback from embedded sensors everywhere will simultaneously deliver greener and more productive cities.

The smart slum also makes sense as a way to bridge the infrastructure gap; by adding programmable intelligence to services that are extended in to slums.

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