The skyline of downtown Chattanooga bathes in mid-evening sunlight.When a leader for a New York think tank meets today with Chattanooga health care officials, he’ll talk about the idea of leveraging EPB’s hyper-fast Internet service to create paperless hospitals.
John G. Jung, chairman and co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum, said Monday that how cities use technology to aid people is a factor in picking the world’s so-called “smartest city.”
“It’s really about what they do with it,” he said.
Chattanooga, already named one of the Forum’s seven most intelligent cities, is trying to move from the short list to the top.
On Monday, leaders hosted Jung to meetings that included a helicopter ride over Chattanooga, a talk with former mayor and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., a visit with city police and a roundtable with more than a dozen entrepreneurs and others. More meetings are slated for today, said J.Ed. Marston of the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.