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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
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March 1, 2019
Smart Cities Challenge (Competition One): City of Airdrie Final Proposal
City of Airdrie
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: $10 million
Name of community: City of Airdrie
Province: Alberta
Population: 72,874
Challenge statement
Become Canada’s healthiest community, by engaging and securing the participation of all in the
community to create a community healthy culture that improves social, economic, physical and
health care environments and individual characteristics and behaviours, so that healthy life
expectancy is increased by 3+ years over 5 years.