Utility companies are wedging their way into regional governance to facilitate the installation and implementation of smart city technology throughout a region. Note the article states "co-lead", which means they are not the main driver of regionalization.
Since 1973, the Atlantic Council has been a hotbed of Trilateral Commission members and initiatives. Founded by David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Commission resuscitated historic Technocracy and fed it to the United Nations as Sustainable Development. Today, both are steeped in UN initiatives.
The NGO Bycs is promoting the election of 'Bike Mayors' in cities around the world in order to get people out of their cars altogether in favor of bicycles. This has been a general initiative of Agenda 21 since 1992.
Stories of resistance against biometric schemes are seldom seen in established media because Big Tech lawyers head off such stories by bullying outlets with legal threats. Monsanto and Big Pharma turned this into an art form.
The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference is to nature what the Paris Conference was to global warming. The outcome will extend the 1,100 -page Global Biodiversity Assessment from 1995 and specify all human behaviors that are necessary to 'rescue' nature.
A major global tech corporation based in Japan, NEC, says that a global biometric system will help solve health problems as per United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #3, and touts "leave no one behind." The program will initially tested in Kenya.
With an overwhelming majority vote (45-2) , the NYC City Council drank the United Nations' Sustainable Development cool aid and committed its 8.6 million residents to the Green New Deal.
Since nobody would have time to run a nation in Silicon Valley, the logical solution for local Technocrats would be to create an app that would run everything for them. Indeed, an AI Technocracy would be their chosen outcome.
Yang is a mix of Libertarian and Democrat who is appealing to both camps. An 'enlightened technocracy' is comparable to Dr. Parag Khanna's 'direct technocracy' as proposed in Technocracy in America (2015). Yang promotes Universal Basic Income, Smart Meters, Medicare for all, carbon fees and legalization of drugs.
Steve Bannon pointedly reveals that the rise of China to be an existential threat to America is thanks to Wall Street and Western mega-corporation, which I have been saying for years.