CITY OF MESA
Smart innovations from City of Mesa is touching people and places with its data-driven insights making it one of the most digitally connected cities in the US
In downtown Mesa stands a voiceactivated digital kiosk providing citizens and visitors a safe new way to navigate what is going on in this smart city - from checking rail times to looking at a road map or simply discovering a new restaurant .
The physical presence of a Citypost kiosk in the business district of this Arizona city - population of 500,000 - is just one physical sign of how the City of Mesa government has digitally transformed the 35th largest city in the US into a smart city within the space of only two years .
This year will see the roll out of 20 more kiosks which will connect residents with Mesa City services and local businesses . But this is just the tip of the iceberg of smart innovations which are taking place across the city ’ s parks , schools , libraries and emergency services .
Driving the digital acceleration is the Mesa City government , who has invested more than US $ 10mn , and is quick to acknowledge a smart city is ‘ about people not just tech ’.
The first step to becoming a smart city was to involve all of the stakeholders from the top down from the council , mayor , city manager and every single department director at City of Mesa Local Government and was led by chief information officer Travis Cutright .
184 July 2021