The document discusses the concept of smart communities and provides examples of initiatives from various cities around the world. A smart community is defined as any community, large or small, that experiences economic and social benefits by using software applications to engage all sectors of the community, including traffic, healthcare, education, government services, and more. Examples are provided of smart community projects focused on infrastructure from St. Louis, collaboration from Riverside, CA, solutions from London and Boston, and improving quality of life from Vienna. The key takeaway is that while technology continues to advance, organizing and unifying community members is the core element of a smart community.
E Democracy is platform to engage civilians, parliamentarians and technocrats. This is a community project to empower students, youth, common people and women. It is a scientific process to create deliberation.
E Democracy is platform to engage civilians, parliamentarians and technocrats. This is a community project to empower students, youth, common people and women. It is a scientific process to create deliberation.
The Digital Activisit Incluson Network trasins volunteers to work in their local acommunities to help more people get on line.
The Eurolionk day was a chance for the activisists to make contactw ith similar projects elsewhere in Europe
Civic Tech to empower democracy and increase civic engagement: Local examples...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Local 2019 conference, which was held on 1st November 2019 at City Hall in London. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local/2019
Communities in the Clouds - Andy Blundell, C3T Action Research Corp.Cybera Inc.
Andy Blundell, Principal of C3T Action Research Corp., presented these slides as part of the Cybera Summit 2010 session Cloud Computing for the Masses.
A presentation by Boris Weber, World Bank Institute
Youth Anti-Corruption Forum in Brussels on 27 May 2010.
Session: ICT for Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC)
A presentation by Marlon Cornelia, ANSA-EAP
Youth Anti-Corruption Forum in Brussels on 27 May 2010.
Session: ICT for Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC)
NetSquared - for Social and User-driven Open InnovationMarlon Parker
Presentation presented at the NetSquared NetTuesday Meetup in Cape Town, South Africa. The presentation looks at Social and User-driven Open Innovation and how Living Labs support such approaches to new services and technological developments
Huntsville, Alabama is one of the most recognized cities in the Southeast - named as one of the best places to live and work by a variety of national publications and recognized as a premier location for both business and quality of life. Recently, Forbes named Huntsville one of the nation’s Top 10 Places for Business and Careers. In 2012, the City of Huntsville launched a citizen engagement campaign that solicited public feedback on subjects such as park revitalization and improvements to the historic district. It served as an online town hall and was used to make numerous decisions about city planning.
Learn how the City of Huntsville:
- launched the BIG Picture, an 18-month comprehensive master urban planning initiative that would shape the future of Huntsville for decades to come
- fostered dialogue within the community that was valuable, respectful, and appreciated by citizens
- validated and fast-tracked issues in the planning phase
Community access to computers labs in libraries and technology centers. The 20 year history and the challenges later, including eGov services and the political cultural/debate.
A vision of how open data could be used and produced by small islands and communities - empowering and turning people at the edges into data participants and producers not just data subjects
more information at:
http://tireetechwave.org/projects/open-data-islands-and-communities/
Merlyna Lim's presentation at the Conference on International Media and Human Rights
Sponsored by Consumers Union
The Duluth Room, Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Intelligent Transportation and Smart Communities share the same needs. Starting with the apex event of the Intelligent Transportation spacecraft landing on Comet 67p, the strategic requirements of the field are reviewed with new insights.
The Digital Activisit Incluson Network trasins volunteers to work in their local acommunities to help more people get on line.
The Eurolionk day was a chance for the activisists to make contactw ith similar projects elsewhere in Europe
Civic Tech to empower democracy and increase civic engagement: Local examples...mysociety
This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Local 2019 conference, which was held on 1st November 2019 at City Hall in London. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local/2019
Communities in the Clouds - Andy Blundell, C3T Action Research Corp.Cybera Inc.
Andy Blundell, Principal of C3T Action Research Corp., presented these slides as part of the Cybera Summit 2010 session Cloud Computing for the Masses.
A presentation by Boris Weber, World Bank Institute
Youth Anti-Corruption Forum in Brussels on 27 May 2010.
Session: ICT for Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC)
A presentation by Marlon Cornelia, ANSA-EAP
Youth Anti-Corruption Forum in Brussels on 27 May 2010.
Session: ICT for Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC)
NetSquared - for Social and User-driven Open InnovationMarlon Parker
Presentation presented at the NetSquared NetTuesday Meetup in Cape Town, South Africa. The presentation looks at Social and User-driven Open Innovation and how Living Labs support such approaches to new services and technological developments
Huntsville, Alabama is one of the most recognized cities in the Southeast - named as one of the best places to live and work by a variety of national publications and recognized as a premier location for both business and quality of life. Recently, Forbes named Huntsville one of the nation’s Top 10 Places for Business and Careers. In 2012, the City of Huntsville launched a citizen engagement campaign that solicited public feedback on subjects such as park revitalization and improvements to the historic district. It served as an online town hall and was used to make numerous decisions about city planning.
Learn how the City of Huntsville:
- launched the BIG Picture, an 18-month comprehensive master urban planning initiative that would shape the future of Huntsville for decades to come
- fostered dialogue within the community that was valuable, respectful, and appreciated by citizens
- validated and fast-tracked issues in the planning phase
Community access to computers labs in libraries and technology centers. The 20 year history and the challenges later, including eGov services and the political cultural/debate.
A vision of how open data could be used and produced by small islands and communities - empowering and turning people at the edges into data participants and producers not just data subjects
more information at:
http://tireetechwave.org/projects/open-data-islands-and-communities/
Merlyna Lim's presentation at the Conference on International Media and Human Rights
Sponsored by Consumers Union
The Duluth Room, Hilton Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Intelligent Transportation and Smart Communities share the same needs. Starting with the apex event of the Intelligent Transportation spacecraft landing on Comet 67p, the strategic requirements of the field are reviewed with new insights.
Cloud computing is being adopted rapidly today, fueled by the explosion in mobile devices. The car is the third-fastest-growing mobile 'device'. Mandated use of the Cloud by the American government is pushing even faster growth. The shift to electric vehicles adds even more urgency. Here is a view of how the car is becoming a moving information transceiver for the Cloud...a mobile sensor that feeds the Cloud. See also some work on a First Responder Test-Bed in Canada
Kanban Infosystem Pvt. Ltd. is an emerging HR consulting & manpower procurement firm established in the year 2010. This "Kanban Infosystem : Corporate Profile (e-commerce)" highlights the forte & expertise of their service delivery along with their accomplishment over these years. The corporate profile inculcates e-commerce specific profiles that they have procured successfully for their list of clients.
Aquí te explicaré qué es y para qué sirve cada dato que aparece en una factura de luz, cómo entender la factura de luz, y cómo calcular cada dato de una factura de la luz.
A presentation made to the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver Canada April 25, 2013 giving an update on the current status of community based ICT for development initiatives (Community Informatics).
Slides from US Ignite Smart Gigabit Community lighting rounds. Part of the US Ignite Wednesday afternoon sessions at the 2017 Smart Cities Connect conference in Austin Texas.
On 2 and 3 October 2013, the GTP hosted a series of seminars and scenario planning workshops to capture ideas. In attendance at the "Imagine the Future" Seminar was a cross-sector mix of people including councillors, City and Provincial government officials, planners and urban designers, researchers, NGOS, built environment professionals, and members of the media.
This presentation by the Project Manager of the GTP considers the development drivers of the Voortrekker Road corridor for 2020, 2030 and 2040 under the theme of "the Network Society", a topic that has received a lot of attention of late.
Sidewalk Labs, the part of Alphabet focused on cities and urban development, has unveiled its Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) for a proposed smart neighbourhood on Toronto's Eastern Waterfront. The document, even in draft form, solidifies the company's thinking. It also gives Toronto residents the first clear picture yet of what a smart neighbourhood spearheaded by Google's sister company might look like. Below, the team has summarized the key takeaways from the document.
Change IT!
S. Revi Sterling, University of Colorado Boulder
Voices 2015 - www.globaltechwomen.com
Session Length: 1 Hour
Dr. Revi Sterling founded and directs the only Information and Communication Technology for Development graduate program in the United States. This talk would demonstrate how IT (ICT as the rest of the world calls it) has given a quantum boost to international development efforts, and will give examples of what works and what doesn’t when technologists turn humanitarians. This talk will open avenues for technologists of all types and levels to truly make impact with their ideas, while promoting collaboration rather than competition. Sterling will point audiences to helpful resources while catalyzing their creativity.
Beyond Smart Cities: Driving Citizen Engagement and Smart Communities meet-up presentation slides re: digital equity and City of Seattle for David Keyes
Milestones presentation by the SF Tech Council, a multi-sector initiative to increase digital inclusion for older adults and people with disabilities so that all can participate in San Francisco's connected community.
3. Why the Increased Urgency for Smart Cities?
• Competition
between
rival org.’s
• Complexity
4. What is it?
• A Smart City is any
community, large or small,
central or remote, that
enjoys the economic
development, job growth
and social prosperity that
bloom when software
applications are used to
engage the energy of all
sectors of the community.
Traffic
Healthcare
Education
Government
services
Ecology
Community
Information
Social
services
6. PLACE: Toronto
WATERFRONT TORONTO
It’s not what’s there (Brownfield waterfront)
It’s what you make of it
John Campbell
President & CEO
Waterfront Toronto
7. INFRASTRUCTURE: St. Louis Loop Media Hub
• The Loop Media Hub is a multi-sector economic
development collaborative centred on 5G fibre optic
development of city core
• 90% sociology and 10% infrastructure
David Sandel,
Founder, Gigabit City
Summit
8. COLLABORATION: RIVERSIDE, CA
• SmartRiverside brought leaders together
• Project Bridge created digital inclusion
• Students are totally online: instant feed-back
Ron Loveridge, Mayor,
Riverside CA
9. COLLABORATION (2): ASTANA, KAZAKHSTAN
Astana Mayor Adilbek
Dzhaksybekov with Kazakhstan
President Nursultan Nazarbayev
10. Solutions: LONDON TfL, U.K.
Vernon Everitt
Managing Director
Customer
Experience,
Marketing and
Communications
11. SOLUTIONS (2) SUWON, KOREA
• Focused on
development of
“human software”
Yeom Tae-Young,
Mayor of Suwon
City
12. SOLUTIONS (3) BOSTON, MA
• Most energy-efficient city
in the U.S.
• Greenovate community
engagement program
with interactive modules
for tracking, reporting,
promote online citizen
engagement
Marty Walsh, Mayor,
City of Boston
13. LIFE: TAICHUNG, TAIWAN
• Merger of two
communities
brings diversity,
art, and economic
efficiency.
Chih-Chiang Hu,
Former Mayor
of Taichung
14. LIFE: VIENNA
• “Most Liveable”
• Comprehensive policy
focused on life in the city
“The Viennese Way”
• Smart City Wien
Framework Strategy:
• Best quality of life for all
inhabitants of Vienna
• Minimize the
consumption of
resources.
• Realize through
comprehensive
innovation.
Michael Häupl,
Mayor, Vienna
15. Looking Ahead: The Progress is in the People
• Technology continues to
be astounding: e-cars for
Transport that require
no drivers; high-speed
wireless without
conventional carriers…
• The core element is
unchanged: organizing
and unifying the people
within the city.
• Smart Leadership =
Smart Community
Editor's Notes
“Smart” is not a fad – it is a necessity.
According to the ICF, today there are 126 Intelligent Communities worldwide, and Canada has 21 of them, more than any other nation.
I myself have been involved in creating many of these smart communities, in Canada and around the world.
What are the drivers of the Smart Community?
- Urbanization: 1-million people going into cities each week; by 2050, 7 out of 10 people will be in cities
The top 750 cities have 2/3 of global GDP
City managers are recognizing this -- Demand for Smart City development is so strong that if the Smart Cities market were expressed against global GDP, it would rank among the 12 largest cities by itself
By 2025, one of every three cities in the developed world will no longer make the list of the top 600 cities.
Competition between cities is growing fast. Some 40,000 new cities are springing up each year. Cities that are currently not thought of as competitors are becoming smart - particularly in the developing world.
Even at a minimal level, to survive as a city, the problems of congestion, coordination, and sustainability mean every city has to be a Smart Community….there are no choices.
The key to being a “Smart Community 3.0”, is that applications are used to bring all the sectors and function together!
We often focus too much on the technology behind one sector, like Security. You can indeed have good applications-driven Security solutions, but they will not contribute to the smart COMMUNITY unless they are interwoven with Smart Energy (for street lighting), Smart Health (for ambulances and emergency treatment), Smart Governance (for programs that prevent crime) and so on.
A Smart Community is built on applications that work together. And 90% of the work involved in making a Smart Community is soial, not technological.
We will be using the i-COA model as the guiding structure for our talk today. It brings into play ALL of the aspects of the Smart Community.
Start with the foundation of the pyramid, PLACE.
Toronto’s leadership moved the challenge deliberately from a real estate issue to a “connectedness” issue…
Connectedness started with the leaders, and creating a bigger vision that focused on human development: the creation of new knowledge-age jobs.
Etc for you, Bill… LOL
There was a need to revitalize the core of St. Louis. An organization was formed to drive a project forward to use high-speed connectivity as the spark for revitalization.
The St. Louis Loop Media Hub follows old Trolley route, repurposing old infrastructure.
All the merchants along the route were brought on-board, and are now enthusiastic backers.
For a minor expenditure, there is major gain; when mature, an expenditure of $1.2-m will return an economic output of $265-m.
Riverside’s challenge: a bedroom community and university town in the desert 60 miles from Los Angeles. It also had a large population of poor and poorly educated residents.
In 2004, the mayor and a community college dean convened a Taskforce to channel some of California's high-tech growth into their community. It led to SmartRiverside -- a multi-sector effort to change the city's destiny.
The city built a high-speed fibre network that now carries award-winning e-government and business applications
A digital inclusion program called Project Bridge provides free computers and training to low-income families. Project Bridge is a community collaboration that is now southern California's largest recycler of e-waste, and the project is funded by eBay sale of excess equipment.
A spotlight example of collaboration is the community’s education portal. Students work online exclusively. At the end of each day their results are assessed and fed back to the student and parents. Students can see, in real time, how well they are progressing twards their careers.
Astana was a small provincial city that was made a national capital, and started to gain residents quickly: it now exceeds 1-millin people in a country with a total population of 18-million.
The pressures on urban infrastructure, public services and local governance are immense.
To relieve these pressures, and to get away from the “oil curse” of a one-resource economy, the national and civic leaders decided to create a knowledge-based economy.
A Smart Astana project has united hundreds of leaders in government, business and institutions to set priorities for development, responding to a goal set by Kazakhstan’s president to transform Astana into a globally ranked Intelligent Community.
ICT is being installed to improve infrastructure, enhance the business environment, expand export trade and increase public satisfaction with quality of life, not only in the city center but in the ring of suburbs surrounding it.
Emphasizing collaboration, local government works to create an innovation cluster by connecting the city’s two universities to the 50,000 small-to-midsize companies and the manufacturers that have sprung up in a new industrial park. A new service centre for entrepreneurs has already assisted 4,500 promising leaders.
A key feature is that the various sectors of the community were asked for their input, not only on the adequacy of IT applications and services, but on their importance. From this, a “go-forward” map can be made, optimizing investment in new knowledge services.
Astana has a focus event to help mobilize citizens: Astana will host EXPO 2017 and wants the expected five million visitors to see a city ready to take on the world.
London has a larger economy than many European countries, and the concentration of businesses and people puts upward
pressure on the productivity of travel.
Transport for London (TfL) has the job of moving a million commuters every day into the city (expected to grow by a third coming decade).
The challenge for TfL is to be able to deliver accurate travel information to these commuters. It needs to deliver the information that people want, in a usable manner, no matter where they are.
Fortunately, London’s commuters are high users of mobile devices; more than 80% use the Internet for maps and directions, and three-quarters of all Londoners visit the TfL web site.
TfL has created an Open Data program, where developers can use City data to create potentially useful applications for people to explore. The response has been so good that new Open Data applications have surged more than 85% in the past year.
In the Asian financial crises of 1997, Suwong’s largest employer, Samsung, moved out.
Suwon has now created an economy based on small-to-midsize enterprises specializing in IT, biotech and nanotechnology. The government has not been shy about backing that goal with public investment. Today, two-thirds of Suwon companies specialize in one of its targeted industries and companies with 50 or fewer employees make up 94% of all employers in the city.
The city government established the Ubiquitous Suwon Master Plan, branded as U-Happy. It provides transparent access to government through a unified web gateway.
Digital business incubators and multi-tenant buildings were created, with financial incentives. Suwon has also built a web of collaborative relationships among industry, universities and government. The tangible result is a large number of public-private research centers and institutes.
It developed its own governmental network despite South Korea's impressive broadband infrastructure, currently ranked number one in the world. It was able to trim operating costs by eliminating leased lines, and the use of conduit already installed for the transportation management system kept construction costs low. Control of its own network allowed Suwon to boost connection speeds from 32 Mbps to a blazing 1 Gbps (in 2010).
It focused less on technology than on Suwon’s development of the “human software” within this highly-educated community.
It spent 360m in upgrading school facilities, opening new schools and expanding staff, and a further $186m is funding the 2010 Suwon Education Development Support Plan, which includes 74 individual projects focusing on education for a global economy and workforce. In addition, as the city replaces computers in its offices, the old units are refurbished and distributed to children’s centers, libraries and social welfare facilities.
The City continues to look to the future, hosting the EcoMobility World Festival in 2013.
Boston was voted as the most energy-efficient city in the US by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (2013)
Global energy needs are set to increase 40% by 2030, bringing pressure on prices, competition for resources, and raising difficulties to provide access to societies’ poorest citizens. It is also wrapped up in the issues of climate change, and the impact on economic growth.
Four areas that helped the City of Boston take top honors in, all of which relate to its building energy and community engagement efforts:
-Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s 2009 Executive Order and 2011 Climate Action Plan, which set energy savings goals for the City’s municipal operations and the entire community;
- The progress the City has made towards these goals, which has been supported by the Mayor’s Greenovate Boston initiative and by the business and institutional leaders on the Boston Green Ribbon Commission;
- The effective outreach and partnerships the City has formed with community groups and utility companies to bring energy savings to residents and small businesses through its Renew Boston program; and
- The City’s 2013 Building Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance, which requires all large buildings to rate and report their energy use to improve energy management.
Programs like Renew Boston, the city has shown an impressive commitment to cutting down on energy waste, which will result in lower energy costs for residents and businesses, a more robust economy, and healthier environment.
Websites like Greenovate have interactive programs that track implementation and measure progress. Greenovate Boston is a collective movement to help Boston reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 25% by 2020 and 80% by 2050.
Smart technologies are the key to achieving a low carbon eonomy.
The rise of Taichung over the past decade has been a well-planned, unwavering act of collaborative team-building under the vision of a mayor, Jason Hu.
A great place to live is not only one that dominates world export markets in areas such as precision manufacturing machinery and silicon wafer production, but goes to the next level and becomes a great cultural center. It offers the arts, culture and learning, and has saved many of the city's historic sites and the original "chessboard" street plan.
It is a merger of two communities: the city of Taichung, where 70% of the labor force worked in the services sector, and the surrounding County of Taichung, where nearly 50% of the labor force worked in industry.
The city has driven investments in information and communications technology to boost the efficiency of its port and road network, to boost agricultural output and create new markets, and to give the small-to-midsize businesses in its many industrial parks a competitive advantage in a global market.
Smart City Strategy covers a cross-section of the city, covering all areas of life, work and leisure activities in equal measure, and includes everything from infrastructure, energy and mobility to all aspects of urban development.
Open Government Data policy
World’s Number One “Most Liveable City” six times in a row (Mercer)
Exemplary public transport (1st Place in the TripAdvisory ranking for “Getting Around in the City”)
Smart infrastructure with green buildings, accessible universities
Smart technology with free wifi, apps, developer aids
Sustainable Vienna program includes organic farms and recycling.