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From hosting the Smartest Street in the UK with Cisco, to partnering school children with Newcastle University researchers to measure air quality in their neighbourhood what’s smart about Digital Newcastle is how we’re driving open and transparent collaboration across the public, private and academic sectors to improve outcomes for people.

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