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Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge: Catching Up with the Winners
Lessons learned on building the cities of tomorrow from the four winning teams of Canada's Smart Cities Challenge.
January 15, 2021
Presentation
March 1, 2019
Smart Cities Challenge (Competition One): Waterloo Region Final Proposal
Waterloo Region
The Smart Cities Challenge is a pan-Canadian competition open to all municipalities, local or regional governments, and Indigenous communities (First Nations, Métis and Inuit). The Challenge empowers communities to adopt a smart cities approach to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology.
Prize category: $50 million
Name of community: Cambridge
Province: Ontario
Population: 129,920
Name of community: Kitchener
Province: Ontario
Population: 233 222
Name of community: North Dumfries
Province: Ontario
Population: 10,215
Name of community: Waterloo
Province: Ontario
Population: 104,986
Name of community: Wellesley
Province: Ontario
Population: 11,260
Name of community: Wilmot
Province: Ontario
Population: 20,545
Name of community: Woolwich
Province: Ontario
Population: 25,006
Challenge statement
We will become the benchmark community in Canada for child and youth wellbeing by using early intervention, youth engagement and a connected-community framework to create adaptive, data-driven programs and scalable learning technologies that improve early child development, mental health and high school graduation rates.