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Don Rodney Ong Junio Kyoto University Outline Background Why Smart Cities What is a smart city Research Question Framework Findings Background 54 of the worlds population lived in urban areas in 2014 and by 2045 the total number of urban residents will reach 6 billion 2 billion ID: 545028

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Slide1

Smart Policies for Smart Cities: How Institutional Arrangements Matter

Don Rodney Ong Junio

Kyoto UniversitySlide2

Outline

Background

Why Smart Cities?

What is a smart city?

Research

Question

Framework

FindingsSlide3

Background

54% of the world’s population lived in urban areas in 2014 and by 2045, the total number of urban residents will reach 6 billion, 2 billion more than current estimates

. (World Bank)

Urbanization

is a common feature of the development narrative of countries in Asia Pacific

.

Cities are important as most economic activities are generated in these areas. Slide4

Why Smart Cities?

In recent years, a “smart city” approach has become the latest policy response to the challenge of rapid urbanization.

In India for example, the government has announced a USD1.2 billion commitment to develop 100 “smart cities” to accommodate the expected 843 million people living in Indian cities by 2050.

The

smart city approach recasts many of the traditional issues associated with urban

living.Slide5

What is a smart city?

Defined as

a “knowledge”, “cyber” or “eco” city.

A

city “connecting the physical infrastructure, the IT infrastructure, the social infrastructure, and the business infrastructure to leverage the collective intelligence of the city

” (Harrison et al, 2010).

A

smart city uses information and communications technology (ICT) to enhance its livability, workability and sustainability. In simplest terms, there are three parts to that job: collecting, communicating and “crunching

.” (Smart Cities Council)Slide6

What is a smart city?

A common theme present in most definition of smart city is the importance of leveraging on ICTs to bind the various aspects of city living especially in the social, and economic spheres.

Definitional

impreciseness of smart city contributes to the often loose use of the term

.

Smart city as an urban labelling phenomenon (Hollands, 2008).

In this sense, the term smart city is used for place marketing purposes only more than anything else.Slide7

Research Question

This

paper raises the following conceptual queries:

What

policies enable smart cities?

How

are formal institutions configured to drive smart city

development?

Institutional factors are often overlooked

When institutional factors are considered, they mostly relate to formal institutions such as policies

Nam and Pardo (2011)Slide8

Framework

Smart cities can be understood as a system

Institutional economics as guiding framework

Analytical lens

Formal institutions

S

uch

as rules, laws,

constitutions

Informal institutions

Such

as norms of behavior, conventions, self-imposed codes of

conduct

Enforcement characteristics of formal and informal institutions

Case StudySingaporeSeoul, South KoreaSlide9

Why Singapore and Seoul

Pioneers in smart city development in Asia Pacific

Relative

success and maturity in creating a thriving smart city

ecosystem

Strong

reputation

as

highly competitive cities

occupying

the top list

of

rankings such as the World City Competitiveness

Index; Liveability Ranking; Quality of Living Rankings etc.

Similar in their institutional configuration but the paths they have taken to reach their current level of smart city development are divergent.Slide10

Seoul’s Smart City Journey: From U-Seoul to Smart Seoul 2015

U-Seoul: aimed to improve the city’s sustainability, competitiveness and sustainability.

Emphasis

of this approach is on building sufficient urban infrastructure such as sensors, broadband backbone to provide ubiquitous city services in the areas of public administration,

health, etc.

Focus on traditional city infrastructure limited the potential of leveraging on ICTs to improve citizen engagement.

Smart Seoul 2015:

build smart infrastructure, provide smart services, and advance smart services

.

Shift from focusing on infrastructure to improving efficiency in government services.Slide11

Singapore’s Smart Nation Initiative

Singapore’s iN2015 (Intelligent Nation 2015) masterplan forms part of the country’s earlier drive to develop a smart nation. Building a national broadband network in addition to expanding citizen services app are some key components of iN2015.

Smart Nation Programme Office (launched in 2014)

Based on three dimensions, the Smart Nation programme aims to bring in more jobs to Singapore, improve the quality of

life,

and a general improvement in society.

A cornerstone of Singapore’s smart nation drive is leveraging on big data and co-creating citizen service apps with the public

.

A

broader theme that figures prominently in Singapore’s strategy but is under emphasized in Seoul’s own smart city approach is job creation and helping reorient the city to become city suitable for ICT related industries to flourish.Slide12

Key FindingsSlide13

Government leadership and a comprehensive approach to smart city policy making

In addition to a policy framework, there is also a strong government leadership in ensuring that their smart city strategies will gain traction

.

Presence

of a

strong

public service able to implement broad policy directives

and ensure

that its smart city projects will be implemented is seen as a crucial factor

.Slide14

Differentiated approach to smart city development

Seoul and Singapore's Smart City initiatives draw on different policy impetus and mechanisms.

Both

Singapore and Seoul's smart city initiatives have more than one policy objectives- job creation, ensuring access to ICTs, improving delivery of public services, improving quality of life and the like.

Both

governments have also shown various modalities to achieve their aims such as through public private partnerships, in-house development of software and apps for citizen services etc.

This

varied approach highlights the existence of multiple ways to approach and to implement smart city programmes.Slide15

More than just wires and sensors

While a smart city in its early stages can be about laying down smart infrastructure, these are not sufficient condition to encourage meaningful ICT collaboration between government and citizens.

As

seen in Seoul's U-Seoul project, the provision of ubiquitous technology did not result in improved quality of life for citizens and thus meet the stated objective of its smart city policies.Slide16

Encouraging demand and meaningful use

Inasmuch as smart city policies are aimed at creating new ways to deliver public services, mechanisms must be in place to ensure that there will be public demand for these new services and products

.

On

the supply side, Seoul has been involved in providing access devices to people as a way to encourage use of its citizen services apps.

In

Singapore, the government has been hosting hackathons with students and other stakeholders to encourage use of its services and creation of new services through data that they release to the public. Slide17

Smart policies for smart cities would also require a “smart” civil service and an “ICT-smart” citizenry.

Administrative efficiency and organizational capabilities of cities

Embeddedness of ICT cultureSlide18

Thank You!