Following the design thinking and the process we followed to get the appropriate insights from the official development indexes of a city to structure our own smart city business model for the city of Athens, our team had to use them properly to make the SWOT model of the metropolis.
Athens City
Athens is a city with a population of 664,046 inhabitants based on the latest demographic survey of ELSTAT for 2011, and with a Metropolitan population of 3,753,783 inhabitants. It is the 3rd most populous city in Europe after Paris and Barcelona. However, we see that there is a diversity of characteristics in terms of its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities and potential risks — threats that it may encounter.