Introduction on Smart City

Strategy
in National Urban Policy
| 22 October 2019 | 09:30-09:40
 Smart City Strategy: stand-alone VS embedded
• Some advantages for stand-alone strategy: fast track on establishing, free from
existing administrative bindings etc.

• However, digital needs should be integrated in the overall city vision because
technology is only a tool used to deliver wider goals.

New York created a stand-alone strategy in the early 2010s but has now integrated
its digital plans within the overall city vision.

Sao Paulo’s smart city strategy is embedded in the current formation of the
Municipal Strategic Plan 2017-2020.

• The governments in the rapid urbanizing countries which seeks to develop smart
cities in transformative, productive, inclusive and resilient ways, it is necessary
to mainstream smart city strategy in national urban policy.
 What is National Urban Policy?
• NUP is a coherent set of decisions derived through a deliberate government-led
process of coordinating and rallying various actors for a common vision and goal that
will promote more transformative, productive, inclusive and resilient urban
development for the long term.

• NUPs have been identified drivers of change, or development enablers, because of

their ability to provide structure and organization to the process of urbanization
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
PHASE: feasibility diagnosis formulation implementation M&E
Phase 1: Feasibility

• The goal of the Feasibility Phase is to make a case for a NUP and to begin to build
stakeholder support and political will for vision

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy :

develop collaborative models with the involvement of diverse levels of
government

Toronto, Canada organized a Smart Cities Summit in 2016 to launch its Smart
Cities Working Group, a diverse group of leaders from public, private, and
academic sectors.
The goal of the summit was to catalyze the vision of what ‘smarter’ means for
Toronto, establish a forum to leverage local Smart City events, and develop a
survey of five city divisions to benchmark against international peers.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
PHASE: feasibility diagnosis formulation implementation M&E
Phase 2: Diagnosis

• The diagnosis phase is where key evidence is collected to act as the foundation
for decisions that will be made by stakeholders later in the NUP process

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy :

ensure private sectors’ participation in analyzing existing contents of public
service, level of technological infrastructure and financial resources

In Chicago, USA, City Digital, a consortium of local government and private

companies is responsible for identifying pilots that can bring value to the city and
have potential to scale up.
The mission of this consortium is not only to run pilots but also to develop
solutions for the marketplace and export these to other cities
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
PHASE: feasibility diagnosis formulation implementation M&E
Phase 3: Formulation

• The formulation phase consists of the prioritization of policy options for the NUP
but also the development of strategies to facilitate their implementation.

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy 1:

consider citizens’ needs as a top priority in the process of identifying smart city
solutions that can be applied to the public services.

The establishment of Smart City Master Plan in Montego Bay, Jamaica began
with the survey on urban problems, which citizens felt most seriously.
As a result of survey, crime (49%), traffic (30%), disaster (21%) were the most
serious factors. Based on this, the pilot project of Montego Bay was selected as
the most vulnerable area in terms of crime, traffic and disaster. Also, in
prioritizing Smart City solutions, citizen’s survey and interview are considered
highly.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
Recommendation for Smart city Strategy 2:
create safeguards to protect against the abuse of personal data

De-identification is the process used to prevent a person’s identity from being

connected with information. Public data comprised of de-identified information
is the foundation of the open data resources that spur a large proportion of
Smart City solutions and technologies.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
PHASE: feasibility diagnosis formulation implementation M&E
Phase 4: Implementation

• Implementation of NUP is the phase where the policy plan is put into practice.

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy 1:

ensure a dedicated organization exploring best practices and recommending
technological and institutional frameworks

In Korea, Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) is the

sole institution that specializes in R&D related to smart city. It conducts R&D
planning, management, and assessment; certifies construction and
transportation technologies; and assesses the value of relevant technologies.
KAIA foster the smart city technologies and apply and test those to the testbed in
the urban area.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy 2:

redefine the governance and management of data

In Korea, Seoul Metropolitan Government operates Open Data Portal. Begun in

May 2012, this web portal provides more than 2,600 types of service, 1,500
datasets from 10 different fields that include traffic, environment, and city
management. All data in Seoul Metropolitan Government, except private data, is
to be made free and open as a rule. There are 150 systems with topics classified
into 10 different services.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
PHASE: feasibility diagnosis formulation implementation M&E
Phase 5: Monitoring & Evaluation

• The monitoring and evaluation is a long-term process that benefits from

consistent research and updating of data, and from a regular forum in which to
present and evaluate this data with a broad group of stakeholders.

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy:

develop ‘Smart City indicators’ that can monitor and evaluate the current
capacity and potential as Smart City

World Council on City Data (WCCD) implements ISO 37120 Sustainable

Development of Communities: indicators for City Services and Quality of Life. In
addition, WCCD has developed the first ISO 37120 certification system and the
Global Cities Registry.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
KEY participation Capacity Acupuncture
Key pillar 1: Participation PILLARS development projects

• In order to have broad support and engagement during the NUP process,
participatory process should be integrated throughout the process.

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy:

develop inclusive smart city framework and provide tools to co-create public
services

Gi3t (Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Technologies) and World
Enabled launched the Smart Cities for All initiative to define the state of ICT
accessibility in Smart City worldwide. Their focus is to eliminate the digital divide
for persons with disabilities and older persons in Smart City around the world.
They also provide toolkits containing resources to help Smart City include focus
on ICT accessibility and digital inclusion of people with disabilities and old age
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
In Canada, Vancouver city government develops citizen access application,
‘VanConnect’. VanConnect allows everyone to request a service, get emergency
updates, locate nearby City facilities on the go, or get quick access to City online
services.
How to establish Smart City Strategy in NUP framework?
KEY participation Capacity Acupuncture
Key pillar 2: Capacity Development PILLARS development projects

• Through the capacity development, it is possible to ensure that a national urban

policy can be successfully developed, implemented, and monitored and evaluated
by all necessary stakeholders.

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy:

enhance public awareness of how smart city technologies affect their life and
capacity of make use of the technologies

In Netherlands, Amsterdam city government operates ASC (Amsterdam Smart

City). This open platform for citizen also offers Smart City Academy through its
own web site.
Smart City Academy provides citizens with information and researches about the
impact and conditions of smart city projects. Citizen can share their own
knowledge about smart cities with each other as well.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?
KEY participation Capacity Acupuncture
Key pillar 3: Acupuncture projects PILLARS development projects

• The aim of acupuncture projects is to ensure that policy action is being translated into
direct action, which ensures that policy directives are relevant and implementable

Recommendation for Smart city Strategy:

co-design and implement with citizens a pilot project. With the wide-experience
of it, it is possible for citizens to verify the effectiveness of SCS and to redefine its
goals.

The Department of Transportation in the USA promoted Smart City Challenge

project that would provide 50 Million US dollars in innovative solutions to urban
transportation.
How to Establish Smart City Strategy in NUP Framework?

‘Smart Kalastama’, Finland, emphasizes that The best way to speed up smart city
development is by involving companies and residents in agile piloting program.

The agile piloting programme was created to accelerate smart city development
with the goal of forging a model to quickly achieve examples of new smart
services.
The Way forward

Develop Smart City Strategy within NUP framework

• data collection to support the elaboration of smart city strategy

• formulation of smart city strategy

• identification of demonstration projects for the implementation of NUP and smart

city strategy