The Smartest Cities: Top Ten
175 cities classified according to "smartitude" including 5 in France ....
Check African and Asian cities.
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3 criteria in "Environmental Indicators for Waste and Water"
Thanks to Courrier International (in French) which cites Forbes and the source PDF IESE Navarra (in English)
The main source is IESE Cities in Motion Index (Navarra) >> see the 2022 world map
i.e. IESE Business School Navarra (but the parent IESE is London)
Interesting PDF because there are governance criteria (governance word used 5 times in the intro of the study): rights, corruption, democracy ....
Good reading (in English but Google Translate is still efficient)
https://media.iese.edu/research/pdfs/ST-0542-E.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iese/2020/07/08/these-are-the-10-smartest-cities-in-the-world-for-2020/?sh=701e8e3e12af
https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/classement-quelles-sont-les-villes-les-plus-smart-du-monde (French)
https://citiesinmotion.iese.edu/indicecim/
https://asialyst.com/fr/2016/02/01/asie-des-villes-intelligentes-quelles-reponses-au-defi-urbain/ (French)