The Economist Intelligence Unit announces the Safe Cities Index 2017
2017年10月12日 - 4:43PM
JCN Newswire (英)
It was announced today that Tokyo has been named the safest city
in the world once again in the Safe Cities Index 2017, a report
compiled by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU; the research and
analysis division of The Economist Group of Britain) and sponsored
by NEC Corporation (TSE:6701). Tokyo previously earned the overall
number one spot in 2015.
This EIU report evaluates the relative safety of 60 cities around
the world based on an index composed of 49 indicators split across
four categories: digital security, health security, infrastructure
security, and personal security. Interviews are also conducted with
14 experts in the field, thereby making it possible to understand
improvements in urban safety from various angles.
Although Tokyo earned the highest score in digital security and
made improvements in health security, it did fall out of the top
ten in the infrastructure security category.
America's deteriorating infrastructure is reflected in the
rankings, with San Francisco being the only U.S. city to claim a
spot in the top twenty of this category. All other cities ranked in
the top ten for the infrastructure security category are either in
Europe or the Asia-Pacific region.
NEC continues to focus on Solutions for Society and is striving to
strengthen its global safety business by utilizing technologies
such as face recognition technology boasting the world's highest
recognition accuracy and video analysis technology to contribute to
the realization of a safe and secure society. NEC's sponsorship of
the Safe Cities Index 2017 is part of these efforts, and this is
the second time it has served as sole sponsor of the report
following the Safe Cities Index 2015.
For more information, please visit
http://www.nec.com/en/global/ad/campaign/safecitiesindex/.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network
technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross
utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's
advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of
its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in
technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society.
For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.
Based on its Mid-term Management Plan 2015, the NEC Group globally
provides "Solutions for Society" that promote the safety, security,
efficiency and equality of society. Under the company's corporate
message of "Orchestrating a brighter world," NEC aims to help solve
a wide range of challenging issues and to create new social value
for the changing world of tomorrow. For more information, please
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Source: NEC Corporation
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