A city that makes life easier for everyone, which uses smart technology in its public places, and that develops new ways of connecting people and improving city amenity
Technological innovation and economic prosperity as objectives of Smart City cannot fully succeed without appropriate citizen and community support and participation. One substantial group of the citizens that is often overlooked are children.
Bodø is a municipality located in the northern part of Norway with 51,000 inhabitants. The city is going through a major transformation as the national air force base in Bodø is being relocated by the Norway national government. The Smart Bodø program is being introduced to transform the city.
Cities that are located in coastal areas face a particular challenge due to the changing climate. Sea level rise, storm surges and floods are just some of the disastrous phenomena that threaten coastal cities. With the advancement of technology, devising ICT in the Disaster Management System has become widely prevalent for city government.
Building cities that are resilient to become crucial as more unpredictable hazards and disasters that we have never seen before. A city should be able to deal with and adapt to various kinds of pressure, changes and disaster without harming the livelihood or severely damaging the urban system.
Flooding is one of the biggest problems in Jakarta that are complex and require thorough planning and management from various stakeholders and sectors. Widiachristy and Rachmanto (2021) studied how the Government of Jakarta designed a mobile application as an early warning system (EWS) for floods that has become an annual occurrence in Jakarta.
3T or “Trace, Test and Treat” is the principle that WHO uses for pandemic control. Sonn and Lee (2020), explained how Smart City came in handy, especially, to tackle the first part of the 3Ts, Trace. Learning from previous pandemics that the country faces, such as MERS and SARS, South Korea imposes the law for better pandemic control next time the outbreak occurs.
With cities in Indonesia implementing Smart City technologies become widely used. Real time monitoring and sensing through various devices that transmit data become a common practice with the intention of processing those data to improve the quality of life. However, Rosadi et al. (2017) raised the concern over the lack of data privacy law in Indonesia.
The national government of Indonesia created a website that can be used as a platform to report and voice citizens’ aspiration which the system has been integrated among 34 ministries, 96 public institution and 493 local governments.
Due to its geographic condition, Indonesia is vulnerable to various natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, forest fires etc. In order to better prepare and mitigate the disaster, Indonesia’s Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) led the initiative of using technology to map the disaster-prone areas with Geographic Information System.
The limited resource that the city government’s have may limit its capacity to deliver service or run certain programs. City government may have to work around the limited financial capacity or the limited human resource capacity. Thus, partnership with certain private enterprise may be an option for city government ensure the delivery of services to the public.
