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MAKING INCLUSIVE SMART CITIES

WHAT CAN INDIA LEARN

FROM THE WORLD?

6 Nov 2015
Dr. Anthony Townsend
for Bloomberg Philanthropies

6 NOV 2015

ANY CITY, HOWEVER SMALL, IS IN FACT DIVIDED INTO TWO

ONE THE CITY OF THE POOR, THE OTHER OF THE RICH
THESE ARE AT WAR WITH ONE ANOTHER.

Plato, The Republic

WHAT ARE SMART CITIES?

HOW DO THEY SERVE PEOPLE AND
ALL THEIR CONFLICTING GOALS?

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AGENDA FOR THE WEBINAR

Smart Cities - The Big Picture
Why this moment matters
Top-down planning and bottom-up emergence
Inclusion
Digital Master Planning - How Cities are Engaging the Opportunity and Challenges of Smart
Cities
Plan Content
Planning Process
Implementation Approach
Digital Maturity Scorecard
Q&A

THE BIG PICTURE

SMART CITIES

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THE BIG PICTURE

Why this moment matters
Top-down planning and bottom-up emergence
Inclusion

THE BIG PICTURE

2008 - THE RISE OF SMART CITIES

more urban than rural population globally
more mobile than fixed broadband subscribers
more things on internet than people
tech industry discovers cities

THE BIG PICTURE

SMART CITY MARKET FORECAST SIZE

YEAR OF
FORECAST

MARKET SIZE
IN 2020

SOURCE

2011

$100 BILLION

PIKE RESEARCH

2013

$408 BILLION

ARUP

2014

$1.56 TRILLION

F R O S T & S U L L I VA N

~2-3% of global infrastructure spending

~2-3% of a district infrastructure cost
~2-3% of building construction cost

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THE BIG PICTURE

Why this moment matters
Top-down planning and bottom-up emergence
Inclusion

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THE BIG PICTURE

TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ON SMART CITIES

Leading
Advocates
Goals
Sources of
Innovation
Impact to Date

Top-down

Bottom-up

IBM, Cisco

Nesta, City of Amsterdam

Efficiency, security
fixing 20th C. problems

Sociability, transparency,
enabling 21st C. governance

corporate +
university R&D

social entrepreneurs, civic

hackers + startups

limited, with potential to scale

selected innovations

embraced at grassroots,
exploited by sharing economy

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THE BIG PICTURE

Why this moment matters
Top-down planning and bottom-up emergence
Inclusion

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THE BIG PICTURE

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THE BIG PICTURE

6 DILEMMAS AND HEADLINES

market growth vs. inclusive planning
visible vs. actionable
access vs. agency
safeguards vs. public good
cooperation vs. offloading
economic gap vs. knowledge gap

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HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE GRAPPLING

WITH THE SMART CITIES MOVEMENT

DIGITAL MASTER PLANNING

CONTENT OF DIGITAL MASTER PLANS

2013 CHICAGO TECHNOLOGY PLAN

September 2013
Addresses:
Next-generation infrastructure
Digital literacy
Open Government
Civic Tech Innovation
Tech Sector Growth
*Unique in that it addresses the use of technology in public space.

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PLANNING PROCESS
New York: private consultations with some powerful
stakeholders
Chicago: community involvement, more public process
London: large steering committee, public hearings
Dublin: highly open, offline and online

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DIGITAL MASTER PLANS

PICKING A STYLE OF PLAN

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DIGITAL MATURITY SCORECARD

A SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL
City
Governance

5. Optimising Digital savvy

(Transformative Digital pervasiveness &
City Platform)
creativeness

Building
Ubiquitous City
Networks

Leaveraging
Urban Data

Fostering
Digital Services
Capability

Digital Access
and Skills
Proficiency

Ubiquitous highspeed, secure &

intelligent networks

Industry, Academia,
Municipalities/Gov &
Citizens sharing
trusted data

Bottom-up
entrepreneurship &
open-innovation digital
city services

Carbon negative city,

autonomation of city
operations, triple
bottom line value

Shared governance
across municipalities
& citizens

Mega data-pattern
processing, crowdsourcing initiatives

Pockets of citizen
prosumerism driving
service innovation

Carbon neutral City,

predictive city
operations
management

Pervasive citizen
participation, crossdepartment digital city
management positions

Integrated city-wide
digital services
platform, citizen
feedback loops
present

Managed use of city

resources, informed
city operations
management

Centralised digital city

vision, policies &
resourcing

4. Advanced (Proactive Digital City

Platform)

Personalised &
integrated digital
access, digital skills
proficiency > 90%

Autonomous network
QoS and QoE selfhealing intelligence

3. Intermediate (Progressive Digital

City Platform)

Quadruple-helix
initiatives for
integrated digital
education & access

Near real-time network City data platform,

sense & respond
data mash-ups from
management
diverse sources

City Impact
Realisation

2. Basic - (Developing Discrete digital skills &

Digital City Platform)
access initiatives

Varying levels of
instrumentation,
connectivity & field
data capture

Data policies for

regulatory, privacy,
security & sharing,
small scale data
integration

Pockets of digital city

services innovation,
limited citizen
engagement

Carbon-rich
behaviours changing,
partial monitor &
control city operations

Decentralised city
involvement, some
cross-department
collaboration

1. Ad Hoc (Unmanaged Digital

City Platform)

Manual detection,
response & recovery
across network(s)

Proprietary, no data
integration

Independent city
service strategies

Unfettered city
operations driving
carbon-rich use

Little engagement, no
interest in digital city

Limited expertise and

access