The 2016 Networked Society City Index ranks 41 cities around the world based on performance in sustainable urban development and ICT maturity, revealing that Stockholm is the top-ranked city, followed by London, Copenhagen, Singapore and Paris. Taipei ranked 11^th, up from 13^th place in 2014.

There is a positive correlation between social and economic development and increasing ICT maturity. ICT is not only critical to socio-economic progress, but can help decouple this progress from an increased environmental footprint in favour of a greater degree of sustainable development.

Today, many smart city initiatives have been mainly used to optimize existing systems and behaviours, such as intelligent transport using ICT. However, city authorities need to rethink existing structures to fully grasp the potential of ICT, and also to make sure that "smart" is in fact also sustainable.

A key motivation behind Ericsson's Networked Society City Index is to enhance awareness of and promote the key role that cities can play in realizing the vision of a Networked Society. Cities will be critical for the advancement of sustainable economic growth, social conditions, poverty reduction, better health and education as well as improved inclusion. Equally, what happens in cities will have a heavy impact on progress towards encouraging economic inclusion and the development towards more sustainable consumption as well as to combat climate change.

At this event our guest speaker will outline some of the main findings of the 2016 Networked Society City Index and how city authorities, resident companies and citizens can speed up the drive to create ever-smarter, networked and sustainable cities.

About the speaker

Hakan Cervell has been President of Ericsson Taiwan since August 2014. He is also a member of Ericsson's North East Asia regional leadership team (RNEA). He is concurrently a director on the board of the European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan (ECCT) and Co-Chair of the ECCT's Telecommunications, Media and Content (TMC) committee. Since joining Ericsson in 1990, Cervell has held various positions within the company focusing, among other areas, on software development, product management, marketing and project management. He has gained extensive experience in consulting, marketing and sales in Asian markets. From 2003 to 2005, he established a consulting organisation in the area of telecom management and service for Ericsson Malaysia, and from 2005 to 2007, he served as Head of the Olympic organisation for Ericsson Greater China. He was General Manager and Head of the Key Account SmarTone-Vodafone for Ericsson Hong Kong from 2007 until 2011. Immediately prior to his current post, Cervell was Head of Marketing and Communication for Ericsson RNEA with overall responsibility for the internal and external communications and branding efforts of Ericsson in Greater China, Japan and South Korea.

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