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Smart Road Safety for Aging Population

Smart Road Safety for Aging Population

Data in Greece shows that elderly citizens account for 29% of total road fatalities and 58% of that occurs in the urban areas. Physical vulnerabilities and functional limitation of their age makes the elderly population susceptible to this road fatalities.

Safe Speed Limit for Smart Road Safety

Safe Speed Limit for Smart Road Safety

From the analysis of over 14 years of police reported crash from South Australia (SA) and New South Wales (NSW), Doecke et al. (2018) concluded the safe speed limit to reduce the fatality of various traffic crashes in the urban area. The study strongly suggests the correlation between increasing speed of vehicle to the injury severity of crashes.

Crucial Factors for Successful Smart City

Crucial Factors for Successful Smart City

Siokas et al. (2021) maps, evaluate and analyse local municipalities strategic action that contributes to the success of Smart City. First, the study found that having digital tools and infrastructure is significant for the success of the adoption of Smart City model.

Creating Barrier Free SC

Creating Barrier Free SC

In the implementation of Smart City, people with disabilities may experience inequality of access to information as Smart City includes massive transformation of digitalisation of many information and services. Exclusion from the Smart City may take the form of inaccessibility to affordable & reliable broadband connection, lack of digital literacy, inadequate technical support or even online content that are not designed to be easy to access and engaging for the people with disability.

Vital Role of Local Government in Smart City Development

Vital Role of Local Government in Smart City Development

Implementing smart city strategy benefits the local government in accelerating various sector of urban management. Smart City can certainly reduce the cost, maximise efficiency, foster economic development and enhance the quality of life.

Barriers to Smart City Development

Barriers to Smart City Development

Razmjoo et al. (2021) believe that implementation of Smart City not only minimise the challenges that massive urbanisation imposes but also promotes urban development that are also sustainable. Through studying the transportation and energy system in the city, the study found 5 categories of barriers that every city should investigate to accelerate the development of their smart city, which are, Governance (G), Social (S), Technology (T), Environmental (Env) and Economic (Ec).

Elements of Thriving Switzerland’s Smart Cities

Elements of Thriving Switzerland’s Smart Cities

Despite many international or national push for smart city development, it is the local context, constraint and enablers in a specific municipality that determines the degree of innovation a city will have. A study examines 22 smart cities in Switzerland to find out what elements of a city that are significant in the development of its Smart City vision.

Policy Recommendation for Smart Urban Resilience: Evidence from China

Policy Recommendation for Smart Urban Resilience: Evidence from China

Evidence from 282 cities in China in the span of 2009 to 2017 indicates that smart city implementation supports the improvement of urban resilience, particularly in the urban economics resiliency and social resiliency. Zhou et al. (2021) provide three recommendation for their study findings to increase urban resilience through smart city development.

Glasgow Smart Circular Economy

Glasgow Smart Circular Economy

Cities are expected to generate up to 2.2 billion tonnes of solid waste in 2025. City of Glasgow takes an initiative to create a more sustainable production and consumption value chain by embracing the Circular Economy Concept.

Smart Waste Reduction through Repair Cafe

Smart Waste Reduction through Repair Cafe

Every year thousands of tonnes of electronics, furniture, household appliances and clothing pieces are thrown by urban dwellers. Many of these items were not being processed properly or recycled and ended up in the landfill. These items are also likely being tossed just because they are slightly damaged.

Hear Action Plan Ahmedabad

Hear Action Plan Ahmedabad

Increasing temperature is one of the effects of global climate change that threatens the livelihood in Ahmedabad, India. Extreme temperature put the citizen to risk of heat wave and numerous heat-related illnesses. With heat as one of disaster that significantly affect the quality of life, Ahmedabad implemented “Heat Action Plan” in 2015, that include mitigation and early warning system to extreme heat events.

Smart Sustainable Energy from Urban Solar Singapore

Smart Sustainable Energy from Urban Solar Singapore

The limitation of land area pushes Singapore to think innovatively in its efforts for sustainable energy provision. As a city-nation that is located on the equator with all year-round sunshine, Singapore is pushing solar technology as one of its sustainable energy sources.

Crowdsourcing Solution through Civic Innovation Group

Crowdsourcing Solution through Civic Innovation Group

The pursuit of Smart City requires partnership of all elements of city actors. City of Boston established New urban Mechanics, a civic innovation group that support the city government to create innovative human-centred design solution for the city.

The Role of Open Web-based Platform

The Role of Open Web-based Platform

City of Fukuoka, Japan utilise technology to keep up with its aging population and ensuring everyone to get proper health and social care. CareTech is a tool that helps aging citizens especially those with dementia to retain their quality of life.

Removing Barriers to Smart Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Removing Barriers to Smart Innovation and Entrepreneurship

To enhance the quality of life in the city, the city government must take advantage of the clustering resource and knowledge that the area accumulates. Cities as the place of clustering citizens, private enterprise, social organisation, and higher education hubs may benefit from smart cities with open governments.

Barriers to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Smart City

Barriers to Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Smart City

The concept of smart city is about utilising the combined intelligence, skills and resources that a city possesses from the heterogeneous stakeholders that work together to find solutions to the city’s problems. Part of becoming a smart city is the ability to be more open and encouraging for opportunities for new business models and entrepreneurship.

Out of Touch Smart City

Out of Touch Smart City

One indicator of a successful Smart City is its ability to adapt the vision and strategies to local context. Yet, through the study of 15 cities globally, many Smart City visions and strategies poorly accommodate the local needs. Failing to incorporate the unique physical characteristics, demography, and culture of a local area in the Smart City implementation, a municipality risk themselves in loosing the comparative advantages with other cities.

Quiet City: Smart Solution for Noise Pollution

Quiet City: Smart Solution for Noise Pollution

Cities are noisy. With various social activities and traffic, noise level in urban areas can reach a point where it is detrimental to our physical and mental wellbeing. The Municipality of Berlin developed a tool to help its citizens locate places of quiet in their neighbourhood, called Hush City Mobile Lab.

Smart City Initiatives in American and Chinese Cities: A Comparison

Smart City Initiatives in American and Chinese Cities: A Comparison

By comparing four American cities and four Chinese cities with advance level of smart city implementation that represented the countries’ major geographic regions, Hu and Zheng (2021) compares the similarity and difference of these two countries that have differing legal, political and institutional elements.

Smart City for Smaller City

Smart City for Smaller City

Clear vision with specific goals and objectives combined with clear division of role and responsibilities is critical in establishing Smart City. However, only 11 out of the 69 councils in Sydney dan Melbourne that Dowling et al. (2019) study, that shows local municipalities are equipped with appropriate Smart City Strategy for their local areas.

E waste Innovation through Social Enterprise

E waste Innovation through Social Enterprise

The advancement of technology in every aspect of our daily life has also brought negative externalities of the accumulating electronic waste or e-waste. Tretavathan and Sharp (2020) in their study introduce a Social Enterprise called Substation33, which has a mission to reduce the number of electronic wastes that end up in the landfill while also contributing to the community through capacity building programs.

E-Waste Collection with IoT

E-Waste Collection with IoT

The collection and management of e-waste is crucial to reduce the amount of toxic material released to our environment. Effective waste management also has a potential to retrieve valuable materials to be reused and recycled such as gold and copper. Kang et al. (2021) proposed a smart e-waste collection system that could be applicable at household level in the city.

Risk Identification and Categorisation

Risk Identification and Categorisation

The massive investment in Smart City development should come with a suitable risk management. To assist municipalities in identifying and managing their risk in smart city implementation, Ullah et al. (2021) had identified a technology-organisation-environment or TOE-based risk management.

Risk Management

Risk Management

Smart City development risks may interfere with the success of the goals that municipalities set for their cities. Thus, risk management is required to reduce the probabilities of negative impact and even increase the probability of positive opportunities in Smart City implementation.

Smart City Governance to Attain Quality of Life

Smart City Governance to Attain Quality of Life

Upgrading the governance of a city is critical to the success of Smart City establishment. It is imperative that city authority use the data and technology of smart city to improve the governance system to achieve the growth, distribution and effective administration of public service.

Context-based Smart Citizen Participation

Context-based Smart Citizen Participation

The public involvement in the design, planning and implementation of smart city is one factor that determine the success of the vision. It is critical that smart city vision is constructed specifically to the local context. Thus, public participation is crucial to ensure that it is appropriate to the local citizens’ need.

Smart City Experimental Governance

Smart City Experimental Governance

The success of Smart City depends on the ability to innovate. One domain that are challenging but critical for innovation is the way we govern our city to improve the quality of life.

Transitioning into Smart City

Transitioning into Smart City

Despite having an ambitious vision of Smart City, there often a big gap in the existing city condition and the goals being set for the city. A study on City of Tallinn in Estonia, provide some insight on how city can better transition into Smart City.

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July 9, 2025

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Smart City Strategy Delivery and Successful Implementation Workshop

This workshop is ideal for tech startups and Smart City equipment suppliers to understand use cases for products and services. Sign up today for and interactive and informative workshop where you will learn what is a smart city and how to write and delivery smart city strategies learning from international examples. Participants will receive a certificate of completion at the course.

September 4, 2024

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11th International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS)

The 11th International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS) 2024, is a scientific meeting in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), wherein researchers and practitioners can disseminate the results of their current research and discuss current issues in the field especially problems in the Smart System as an Integrated Platform, Smart System for Safety and Security, Smart System Implementation and Smart System for Sustainability & Resiliency.

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