This document discusses initiatives for developing smart cities focused on jobs of the future. It proposes 8 initiatives: 1) Launching a data analytics challenge to track job and skill demands; 2) Establishing data analytics support capabilities with universities and private sector; 3) Developing innovative skills through university partnerships and international experts; 4) Targeting high-value companies and universities; 5) Inventorizing problems and connecting them with emerging technologies like AI, VR, and blockchains; 6) Pursuing data-centric strategies including open data and appointing a chief data officer; 7) Focusing on blockchains by developing a Thai blockchain strategy; 8) Creating digital twins through infrastructure digitization and building information modeling. The document emphasizes strategic

1. Smart Cities
Bangkok
June 2, 2017

2. The Power of Focus!

5. What would a focus on ‘Jobs for the
future’ look like?

6. Where would we start?

9. Assessing Demand for Skills: Job Postings

10. Assessing Demand: Online Talent Platforms

11. Assessing Demand: Venture Capital
Investments

12. Source: NVCA

16. Initiative 1: Launch a Data Analytics Challenge to Track Demand
for Jobs/Skills locally and globally
• Academia
• Universities
• Private Sector
• Burning Glass, EMSI
• Data Analytics: IBM (Watson)
• LinkedIn, Monster
• Others
• Challenge Platforms
• Innocentive
• Kaggle

19. Initiative 2:Establish a Data Analytics Support Capability
(in partnership with Universities/Private Sector)
• Singapore’s Business
Analytics Translation Centre

20. How would we develop the skills?

24. Initiative 3: Innovative and Future Oriented Skills Development
Strategies
• Take advantage of University 4.0 in EEC
• Closely coordinate with private sector
• Involve international experts on the future of work

25. Attracting high end research

26. Patents
A patent family is a set of either patent applications or publications
taken in multiple countries to protect a single invention by a common
inventor(s) and then patented in more than one country. A first
application is made in one country – the priority – and is then extended
to other offices.

27. Source: WIPO Indicators 2016

28. Initiative 4: Selective targeting of high value companies and
universities
• Identify digital infrastructure needs
• Customize skills development
• Attract international talent

29. What jobs would we attract?

30. Emerging Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Machine Learning
• Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
• Digital Twins
• Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers
• Digital Technology Platforms

32. Initiative 5: Inventorize problems
• Launch an initiative to create an inventory of problems to be solved
• Connect problem with problem owner
• Prioritize emerging technologies in solving the problems

34. Initiative 6: Data centric strategy
• Open datasets
• Open platforms for storing and sharing sensor data
• Data matching between data owners and data analyzing businesses
• Data maps indicating current status of public and private data
• Data 114 service helping businesses to locate, process and broker
data
• Appoint a Chief Data Officer

36. Initiative 7: Blockchain as a focus
• Create one of the cities as a hub for Blockchain solutions and
companies
• Develop a Thai Blockchain strategy in partnership with companies and
institutions (e.g. the Blockchain Research Institute in Canada)

38. Building
Information
Modeling

39. Initiative 8: Creation of digital twins
• Begin systematic digitization of physical infrastructure
• Mandate BIM for new constructions
• Help smaller companies to pursue twinning strategies

40. The opportunity in…
Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality

41. Tim Cook on Augmented Reality
“I regard it as a big idea like the smartphone... I think AR is that big, it’s
huge”.

42. Magic Leap

43. Microsoft’s
Hololens

44. Google’s
Visual
Positioning
System

45. Augmented
Reality
(Tourism)

46. KDDI’s
Warp
Cube

48. National Strategy on AR/VR/MR
• National strategy integrating with Thailand 4.0
• Tourism as a priority sector
• Digitization of physical objects e.g. buildings, infrastructure, utilities,
supply chains, retail businesses, and manufacturing
• Creation of digital twins for spatial planning and modeling
• An international event hosted in Thailand
• Engagement with companies like Samsung, Google, Facebook
(Oculus), Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft, LG, HTC, Sony, Gopro, Magic Leap
and others.

49. The Fundamentals

50. Roles
National
• Strategic foresight
• Broadband infrastructure (5G)
• IoT networks
• Data standards, pooling and
portability
• Data protection and cyber security
• Policy on cross-border data flows
City
• Problem definitions
• Localization of strategies
Common
• Strategic Foresight
• Data analytics
• Stakeholder engagement
• Capacity building

51. Recap of initiatives in no particular order
• Data Analytics
• Data Analytics Challenge to Track Demand for Jobs/Skills locally and globally
• Data Analytics Support Capabilities
• Pursuing data-centric approaches including Chief Data Officer
• Targeting high value companies and universities
• Skills
• Innovative and Future Oriented Skills Development Strategies
• Leveraging emerging Opportunities
• Developing an inventory of problems and connecting with emerging tech
• Launching a proactive initiative on AR, VR, MR
• Establishing the digital foundations

52. Thank you!