Carvel Gray's List: Urban Mayor's Solving Problems With Digital Technology

• New York City: Last year the Big Apple launched its Made in NY website to promote local entrepreneurship. Since then they’ve expanded the effort with increased access to workspaces, partnerships with academic institutions as well as other programs and competitions to assist startups.
• Chicago: Mayor Emmanuel’s ‘Broadband Challenge’ is aimed at improving the city’s fiber network by offering free wi-fi and low cost connectivity. The process even involved updating the sewer network infrastructure.
• London: The British capital wants to be “the best place in Europe to start and grow a business”. To date, many startups have left before attaining success, so the city launched UK Future Fifty. It’s a program to attract fifty of the world’s fastest growing companies by offering concierge and other high level services.

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