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Glasgow wins £24m grant to become UK's 'smartest city'
Glasgow will become UK's 'smartest city' after securing a £24m UK government grant.
Scotland's largest city beat 29 other UK cities to be named the winner of the City of Future competition, organised by the Technology Strategy Board. The competition was announced as part of the Future Cities Demonstrator project, which investigates what can be achieved by the use of ultra-modern technology.
Glasgow will now use the funding to demonstrate how a city of the future might work.
This will include initiatives promoting healthy living and others that directly tackle long-standing health issues such as low life expectancy.
The city?s real-time operations will be monitored with a city dashboard and a management system that views the city as an integrated whole, and a 'MyGlasgow' public window on the city to deliver multiple benefits for the people of Glasgow.
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said Glasgow's win was partly due to already ongoing capital investment being made in the city - such as those linked to the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
"Glasgow has a number of initiatives upon which they are building, giving them strong momentum, in particular the Commonwealth games in 2014 being a key opportunity for them and the UK to demonstrate their skills to the world," he said.
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