1、2024IMDSmart City IndexIn partnership with2IMD Smart City Index 2024“I have never felt salvation in nature.I love cities above all.”Michelangelo“The mark of a great city isnt how it treats its special places everybody does that right but how it treats its ordinary ones.”Aaron M.Renn (The Urban State

2、 of Mind:Meditations on the City)3IMD Smart City Index 2024IMD Smart City Index 2024IntroductionA stable and mature dataset4IMD Smart City Index 2024Following the methodological changes made last year,the IMD Smart City Index(SCI)has now reached what can be considered as its stable configuration its

3、 cruising altitude.Analysts and users of the SCI can now use reliable time series(across five years)to make meaningful comparisons between the performance of specific cities across time.As we have often underlined before and as is always true with any kind of complex composite index one should be ca

4、reful not to read too much into year-to-year comparisons.We are proud that the SCI has now reached the stage at which comparisons can be made on a moving average basis,which is much more meaningful from a number of perspectives,as will be illustrated below.We are delighted to continue working in par

5、tnership with WeGO.In 2023,it allowed us to further our thinking about the composition,architecture,and methodology of the index.It also provided opportunities to heighten the indexs visibility and bring it closer to the concerns and strategies of city leaders around the world,a central part of this

6、 being the Seoul Smart City Prize meeting of September 2023.IMD Smart City Index 2024Introduction:a stable and mature datasetThis years ranking is characterized by a high degree of stability.The indexs coverage remains practically the same(142 cities are included,as opposed to 141 in the previous ed