The Green, Intelligent, and Creative Cities (VIC) are living organisms that grow, develop, and evolve to the extent that its residents make them. They must be understood as complex social, economic, and political ecosystems --highly dynamic and subject to the accelerated transformations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The entry of the internet, personal computer, and the mobile phone into everyday life has already changed how people live and work, and how companies do their business. Indeed, the availability of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) is also changing how governments serve their people. Undeniably, governments around the world recognize the importance of “e-government”.

Argentina's growth and outcome fluctuations point to a clear failure in the current, stagnant welfare system.

The digital revolution is only getting started. Digital disruption, which thus far has transformed a few sectors, is working its way into every sector of the economy. New technologies and exponential growth in the volume of data being produced by people and machines lend themselves to new business models and new kinds of products, while making everything from schools to hospitals more effective. Used correctly, this data explosion promises to make us healthier, richer, sometimes even more compassionate, and to solve intractable societal challenges like climate change.