Smart cities - Perspectives from the South

Smart Cities –

Perspectives from the South

Adegboyega Ojo

Senior Research Fellow and Unit Leader (EGOV)

Insight Centre for Data Analytics

National University of Ireland Galway

[email protected]

Waternomics Final Event, Eng. Building, NUIG, 31 January 2017

City Challenges and Wicked Problems

MOBILITY CHALLENGES

o Transportation systems are

inadequate to serve the needs of

the 21st century

RESOURCE CHALLENGES

o Freshwater use to rise 25% by 2030

o Energy demand by emerging

countries will rise by 73%

ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGES

• Global warming or Friedman's

"global weirding” phenomenon,

exacerbation of warming induced

disasters and related health

problems [Forester 2010]

How are Cities Responding?

Smart Cities – Key Perspectives

As a Project involving

ICT-enabled Urban

Innovation Project

As a Process involving

ICT-enabled Urban

Innovation

As a City engaged

continuous process of

ICT-enabled Urban

Innovation

Smart Cities – Essence & Approach

Ojo, A., Dzhusupova, Z.,

and Curry, E. 2016.

“Exploring the Nature of

the Smart Cities Research

Landscape,” in Smarter as

the New Urban Agenda: A

Comprehensive View of

the 21st Century CityJ. R.

Gil-Garcia, T. A. Pardo,

and T. Nam (eds.), Cham:

Springer International

Publishing, pp. 23–47

(doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-

17620-8_2).

The “SCID” Framework

Ojo, A., Curry, E., and Janowski, T. 2014. “Designing Next Generation Smart City

Initiatives - Harnessing Findings And Lessons From A Study Of Ten Smart City Programs,” in

22nd European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2014)

Building Smart Cities - SCID

Smart Cities in Developing Countries:

Emerging Perspectives

A Vehicle for

implementing the

SDG 2030 Goals.

Note that smart cities

domains are well

aligned to the SDGs

http://www.packagingdigest.com/sustainable-packaging/why-the-2030-sustainable-development-goals-matter-to-packaging-professionals1512

Smart Cites in Developing Countries –

Example - Renewable Energy (Goals 6 & 7)

Acute energy & water shortage are currently being addressed with

different kinds of innovation using solar technology

Smart Cites in Developing Countries:

Example – Water Point mapping (Goal 6)

http://water.worldbank.org/node/83799

Cell phones help map 7,500 water points

Smart Cites in Developing Countries:

Example : Big Real Estate Projects (Goal 9)

http://www.ekoatlantic.com/

PPP Arrangement

between Private

Investor(s), State

and Federal

Government …

Smart Cites in Developing Countries:

Example : Investment Partnership

“The MOU is between Lagos State

Government and Dubai Holdings,

LLC, owners of Smart City

(Dubai) to develop a sustainable,

smart, globally connected

knowledge-based communities

that drive knowledge economy, ”

Governor Ambode of Lagos State,

Nigeria.

http://akinwunmiambode.com/lagos-state-government-

signs-historic-smart-city-deal-with-dubai/

Smart Cites in Developing Countries:

Recognition by ICF of Nairobi County

Some closing remarks

The Developing World and Africa in particular has seen

different patterns of use of Smart cities solutions and

technologies at individual and community levels.

The SDG 2030 is likely to be increasingly adopted as

the overarching policy framework for smart cities

related initiatives in Africa.

This may have some implications on the

conceptualisation of smart cities in research as well as

the pragmatics of smart cities as initiatives.

Attributions for images used in the presentation in order of appearance:

o http://www.innovcity.com/2011/09/08/innovation-lies-also-in-strategy

o GYEONGGI URBAN INNOVATION CORPORATION, www.gico.or.kr

o http://ec.europa.eu/research/transport/projects/index_en.htm

o http://www.higheredtechdecisions.com/article/ncsu_hunt_librarys_technology_sand

box_brings_a_v_and_it_together

o http://www.survivalcentral.net/disaster-preparedness-event-planned-saturday/

o http://www.education.ne.gov/ciptoolkit/

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