03 Dec TOP 20 smart cities
Smart City innovations offer mayors across the world a promising new way of engaging citizens and increasing quality of life.
To offer city leaders guidance on assessing the readiness of their governments to develop, facilitate, or track their smart city initiatives, we bring you a top 20 Smart Cities globally.
1. London
2. Singapur
3. Seoul
4. New York
5. Helsinki
6. Montreal
7. Boston
8. Melbourn
9. Barcelona
10. Shangai
11. San Francisko
12. Vienna
13. Amsterdam
14. Shenzen
15. Stockholm
16. Taipei
17. Chicago
18. Seattle
19. Hong Kong
20. Charlotte
There are 10 Themed Observations identified for governments to consider when planning a Smart City. These are:
1. Funding Smart City Initiatives
Innovative smart city funding mechanisms include competitions and hackathons, partnerships with private companies, smart procurement policies, and national- or state-level funds.
2. Developing a Smart City Strategy
Defining the smart solutions relevant to a city involves studying the actual interactions that citizens have with the city, leveraging the city’s natural strengths, and co-creating the smart city vision and roadmap to align all constituents.
3. Smart Clusters & Innovation Districts
Cities around the world are increasingly experimenting with geographically-concentrated innovation ecosystems as innovation testbeds and hubs for knowledge exchange.
4. Cities around the world are increasingly experimenting with geographically-concentrated innovation ecosystems as innovation testbeds and hubs for knowledge exchange.
A city only becomes truly “smart” when all citizens are ready for it. Cities risk excluding entire segments of their population from the smart city experience. Teaching people how to navigate the digital world is a critical aspect of a digital inclusion plan.
5. The Promise of Open Data
Open data has emerged as a cost-efficient way to increase civic engagement, introduce city projects that attend to citizen needs, track the performance of smart city initiatives, improve efficiency and responsiveness, and apply knowledge from the general public to city solutions.
6. Co-creating the smart city
Involving outside businesses, startups, students, and the public at large can lead to larger variety, volume, and quality of insights, ideas, and feedback. In turn, citizens have shown great enthusiasm when they are given the opportunity to participate in designing and deciding their cities’ future.
7. Smart City Leadership Models
Governments need to design flexible pathways for leadership to naturally evolve, as smart city initiatives increase in complexity or range, as the focus of initiatives broaden, or as the numbers of constituents grow in the city.
8. Sharing Knowledge Across Cities
City leaders can gain access to extensive knowledge networks and do not have to accomplish their smart city mission in isolation.
9. Preparing a Smart Workforce
Leading smart cities recognize the importance of supporting their citizens of all ages with digital skills. Learning experiences include hackathons to help communities familiarize themselves with digital tools, formal educational programmes, and industry immersion to help create the workforce of the future.
10. Beyond Affordability and Efficiency
A truly smart city has the potential to transform the character and liveablity of a city, rejuvenate its economy and heritage, enhance its resilience and sustainability, and even tighten the social compact with the government and among citizens.
SOURCE:
https://www.smartcitygovt.com/