The Data Diva Episode 12 – Zaheer Allam, Ph.D. Smart Cities Urban Strategist

Debbie Reynolds "The Data Diva," talks to Zaheer Allam, Ph.D., an expert on Smart Cities. He is also an Urban Strategist and an advocate for Sustainable Futures. We discuss the definition of smart cities, the thread of technology through smart cities, citizens needs in different communities, safe cities use of surveillance, sharing data for research and development, use of synthetic data, ethics of data collection, smart cities, and AI bias, Western Culture and technology development, scale and its impact on smart cities, interoperability of data exchange and innovation, proximity-based data solutions, data rebates and other ways to share data in appropriate ways and his wishes for data privacy in the future.