Question 1: Importance of Cloud Computing for Smart Cities
The utilization of cloud computing to achieve Dubuque’s vision of becoming a smart city is an essential move to achieve such goal. Cloud computing and internet technology has become a major propeller in providing on-demand resources required by cities like Dubuque that made it mature and pervasive. Several applications today that are widely used especially in smart cities are already cloud-based thus if Dubuque has visions of becoming a smart city it has to go with the trend. Aside from these, the utilization of cloud computing can provide leverage of information across the city’s agencies to come ...