Panel discusses the building of smarter, more sustainable cities

Singapore

CITIES need to build inter-agency partnerships and lose the silo mentality that gets in the way of their becoming smart cities, a group of panellists said at a forum on Tuesday.

Fatouma Toure Ibrahima, manager of infrastructure programmes and analytics at the World Bank's infrastructure practice group, stressed the importance of building more synergy between energy, water and transport - elements crucial for the sustainability of cities.