Smart City: 8 Israeli Tech Trends, 8 Crazy Nights 2015 (4/8)
It’s that time of year! Join us for the next eight days for what’s become an OurCrowd tradition: highlighting during Hanukkah — the festival of lights – the top eight Israeli tech trends that spark the interest of our investment team and what they see on the ground. Trend #4: Smart City Behind the trend: We’ve got smartphones, smart cars, and more of us are living in smart homes. It’s only natural that local governments are becoming more aware of and adopting policies that will transform their municipalities into smart cities. Many cities, for instance, have begun budgeting for or investing in projects employing the Internet of Things (IoT), especially ones that relate to public safety and transportation. In Israel, the country that invented Waze, finding new ways to take advantage of crowdsourcing and data tracking to make the lives of its citizens easier is an attractive mission for a lot of young entrepreneurs, who, in a search for a solution to a personal challenge (carpooling, for instance) create a product or service applicable to a wide audience. What’s...
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