Stae wants to prepare cities for the future | TechCrunch - 0 views
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innovation is coming from private companies. These companies are starting to have better insights about how a city works compared to local governments.
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Cities should be collecting all the data these companies are generating — Airbnb, Uber, drone delivery, Google self-driving cars. You can run analytics and look at the efficiency of the city
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The startup is building a platform so that all the companies can send their data to this platform using an API approach.
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A NY startup is trying to build a platform that would collect data generated by a city to make the city smarter. The accumulated information will be used for making management decisions data-driven. They will start with providing payment platform to collect local taxes from cervices like Airbnb and Uber. The first city to take part in this experiment is Boston.