World's 6 Smartest Cities in 2014

Paris: Mostly known for its fantastic museums and of course the Eiffel Tower, Paris has become a pioneer in the smart cities arena. Their most impressive initiatives have been in their complete embrace of shared mobility. Paris has led the world in their expensive and widely used bike sharing network, ‘Velib'. Currently, the system has more than 20,000 bikes and 1,800 bikes throughout the city. Evidence suggests that Velib has led to a 5 percent reduction in vehicle congestion in the city.

Not to be outdone, the city partnered with Bollore to create one of the world’s first and most expansive EV carsharing programs.
Paris has also managed to foster a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Startup Genome project recently measured city-based entrepreneurial ecosystems around the globe, taking into account variables such as access to capital, volume of startups each year and innovations generated. Paris’ ecosystem was rated 11th best in the world. All this attributed to list this city among the smartest cities in the world.

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