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With an estimated 1 million people moving into cities each week, experts predict that the population in the world’s cities will double by 2050. Already more than half of the world’s population lives in an urban area. This rapid urbanization poses both opportunities and challenges for cities and their residents. Cities face aging infrastructure, declining budgets, changing demographics and increasing threats. At the same time, information and communication technology offers our cities the possibility to understand and diagnose their problems. They can be better places to live and work if they embed intelligence into their operations â€" and that’s starting to happen.

Today, the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., is hosting a forum to illuminate some of the ways cities can get smarter using information and communication technology, even in these times of fiscal restraint.

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