TOWARD SMARTER CITIES 26 - 27 MAY 2015

JEDDAH MUNICIPALITY

ARAB URBAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE

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Smart Cities A new vision towards Sustainable Communities

AUDI is a non governmental organization, the scientific and technical affiliate of the (ATO) Arab Towns organization, with permanent headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Presenting 500 cities and local municipalities among 22 Arab Countries, AUDI is specialized in training the municipalities staff, conduct research studies and consultation services.

Who we are

CAPACITY BUILDING

URBAN OBSERVATORIES

URBAN POVERTY

CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROGRAM

CITY DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGY

The enhancement of human resources, technical proficiency, productivity, and performance for achieving sustainable urban

development

Improving the livelihoods of vulnerable children and youth, rehabilitation, economic and

social empowerment

To advocate for and mobilize financial and technical support for establishing and operating UOs in Arab towns and cities

Strengthening the role of the private sector and civil society associations on urban poverty alleviation in Arab towns and

cities

AUDI Programs

Overview

Key Words

Smart Cities utilize e-governance to achieve smart citizenry, deliver renewable energy, infrastructural services, and sustainable planning policies. Empowering citizens, making smarter and greener decisions in daily life, allow governments and local municipalities administrations to become more transparent, responsive and accountable.

Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Governance, Renewable Energy, Planning Policy, ubiquitous

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Targets

Management

Design To

Vision

Provide Smart Cities’ stakeholders with implicational tools and managerial approaches to sustainable urban development. Identify challenges of Smart E-governance implementations and provide recommendations Ubiquitously information based E-municipality , services symmetrically shared, and immediately actionable, provided by modern information technology modes allow for passive and active environmental systems: STATE OF GREEN 5

SMART CITIES State of Green

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SMART CITIES

A Smart City is an urban space that would have the characteristics of a culture of innovation , a high quality of life

also referred to as “livability,” global competiveness and

transparency, security, and safety, as well as Socio-economic and environmental sustainability.

H. J., & Scholl, M. C. (2014). Smart Governance: A Roadmap for Research and Practice. In I Conference 2014

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Digital City

Ubiquitous City

Cyber City

Growth in the Internet and increasing use of public media

Government utilization of information and communication technologies (ICT)

Virtual public domain

SOCIAL CAPITAL E-MINICIPALITY SMART CITY

Integration of ubiquitous computing within an urban environment

Merge of information systems and social systems 9

MESH Cities

M Mobile

E Efficient

S Subtle

H Heuristics

Mobile devices and the networks that support the city communication provide the bottom-up, real-time information, conduit to supply feedback about a city, its users, and its systems Sustainability achieved through effective use, monitoring and management of energy, traffic and infrastructure Invisible and non-intrusive systems, easy-to-use modern city systems for citizens-Land use policy Heuristics-based continuous improvement, which makes the system self-reflexing, adaptive self-forming and citizen-focused

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34%

31%

28%

5%

2%

7%

102 smart city projects worldwide

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North America

Asia Pacific

Middle East and Africa

Latin America

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Transparency and

Accountability

Participation and

Collaboration

Finance and Budgeting

Infrastructure and Electric

Mobility

Control and Evaluation

Safety and Security

Smart Governance: State of Green

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an abbreviation for the ensemble of principles, factors, and capacities that constitute a form of governance able to cope with the conditions and exigencies of the knowledge society.

Challenges

Complexity

Economical

Social

Complexity of Smart City system, regarding involvement of cities as actors in the value network: a) Integration and convergence issues; b) Differences in administrative and technological maturity; c) Standardization; d) Open Data; e) Privacy and security issues. Need of infrastructure and Intelligent systems a) Involvement of End-Users; b) Myopic view of the Smart City value; c) Lacking Clarity of vision; d) Awareness of the general public on Smart city; e) Ecological awareness, requiring “re-thinking” of conventional behavior.

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Smart City Smart Governance

Objectives • Environmental Sustainability

• Economic Development

• Competitiveness

Financially-Sustainable Public Value

Scope Urban Area Any tier, cross-tier

Level of ambition High. Requires strong leadership and centralization

Moderate, Requires a piecemeal, federated approach

Approach Large scale, top-down Bottom up

Dynamics Political, vendor-pushed Driven by necessity

Stakeholders Enterprises supervising and operating local infrastructure including local government

Government organizations in any tier

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Recommendations

Knowledge Sharing

Monitoring

Transparency

Realization of citizen-and service-oriented government system. Standardization and benchmarking projects to realize a safe and sound society from the way of promoting ICT convergence Network capacity and usage status will play important role in promoting smart cities where higher data bandwidth will be required in order to meet smart citizen’s demands. Innovating advanced civic engagement/participatory services by developing cloud-based, crowd-sourced applications (citizen’s input and feedback)

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Thank You www.araburban.org

NUHA ELTINAY

Director of Urban Planning and Sustainable Development

Email: neltinay@araburban.org