Jaipur as the First Lighthouse City in South Asia: CISCO

Cisco announced the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan to be the first Smart and Connected Community ‘Lighthouse City’ in South Asia. Cisco Lighthouse City status credential is assigned to a select list of cities all over the world. With this development, Jaipur will gain access to Cisco’s huge global network and channel program capabilities; and the city will also benefit from the economic and social transformation set to occur as the country embarks on the next phase of the Digital India program. The Lighthouse City engagement will be enabled through a joint working group, which will focus on deploying next generation technologies to impact citizens and society. With this announcement, Jaipur joins the league of Cisco Lighthouse Cities globally such as Hamburg (Germany), Barcelona (Spain) and Adelaide (Australia).

Cisco is collaborating with the city of Jaipur on a number of key initiatives aimed at advancing Jaipur’s vision of becoming a global model and standard for sustainable urban development. The Jaipur Development Authority (JDA) has chosen to develop smart city infrastructures that will improve the efficiency and quality of services received by its 3.5 mn residents and over 40 mn tourists who visit the city every year.

As competition between cities for talent, business, investment and tourism increases, city leaders see a growing role for technology to enable the development of communities that champion social, environmental and economic sustainability. A Smart and Connected Community is designed with technology at the center to improve the efficient management of city operations and the development and delivery of new services to citizens.

In addition, Cisco in collaboration with other technology leaders such as Qualcomm Technologies Inc., General Electrical and 3M India Ltd announced the launch of the Innovation Centre in the city of Jaipur. The Innovation Centre wi

ll be housed and operated by Genpact, and will help accelerate co-innovation of Internet of Everything (IoE) based solutions.
The Innovation Centre will be hosted by JDA and also team up with startups, developers, government agencies, and academic communities who share the same goal of bringing innovative ideas to life and jointly accelerating development of IoE solutions on a global scale.