Illinois Signs Smart State Partnership with Telangana, India

Government Technology: Much is said about the future of cities and how they are getting smarter. But a more interesting question is how states fit into that equation.

Hardik Bhatt, chief information officer of Illinois, has been a long proponent of pushing his state into smarter governance.

“The idea is over the next three years we want to be not only the smartest state in the U.S., but our competition is Singapore, Dubai and others,” Bhatt said earlier this year. “And I think we can do that.”

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