This presentation was presented during the Arab Future Cities Summit held in Dubai from 10-11 November 2014. It highlight the development of a digital strategy for a smart city initiatives. What is the main focus of a digital strategy for a smart city, what are the different planning approaches to smart city initiatives, and covers Dubai smart city initiative.

1. Digital Strategy for a Successful Smart City Initiative
By: Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri
ICT Expert
@DDSaeed
Sustainable
Cooperative
Wired
Efficient
Social
Prosperous
Competitive
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2. Agenda:A digital Strategy for aSuccessful Smart City Initiative
What Drives Smart Cities?
What is aSmart City?
Smart City Planning Principles
Smart City Topology
What is a Digital Strategy
Areas of Focus for aSmart City Digital Strategy
Other Considerations
Dubai Smart City Initiative
Conclusions
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3. What Drives Smart Cities
To overcome challenges associated with urbanization
“managing urban areas has become one of the most important
development challenges of the 21stcentury.” –John Wilmoth
A need for Sustainability
Other Drivers:
Boosting image, Enhancing safety, Hosting global events
New technologies bring promising solutions
resources optimization and better management
of infrastructure
Achieve infrastructure efficiency
City challenges
Pollution
Water
Energy
Transportation
Governance
Housing
Waste
Health
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4. What is a smart city?
No one definition for smart city –> depends
“smartness” comes from information management
and aggregation
Smart cities are based on the principle of information and data exchange between different sectors of a city
“A smart city is a developing organism that takes advantage of the best contemporary technology available.”
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5. Smart City Definitions
•“A city well performing in a forward-looking way in economy, people, governance, mobility, environment & living, built on the smart combination of endowments and activities of self-decisive independent and aware citizens” (Giffinger& Gudrum, 2010)
•“A city to be smart when investments in human and social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic growth and a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory governance” (Caragliu, 2009)
Scholar’s view
•“Smart City as a high-tech intensive and advanced city that connects people, information and city elements using new technologies in order to create sustainable greener city, competitive and innovative commerce and an increase life quality with a straightforward administration and maintenance system of city” (Barcelona City Hall, 2011)
•“Amsterdam Smart City uses innovative technology and the willingness to change behaviorrelated to energy consumption in order to tackle climate goals. Amsterdam Smart City is an universal approach for design and development of a sustainable, economically viable program that will reduce the city’s carbon footprint” (Amsterdam Smart City, 2009)
City’s View
•“The use of Smart Computing technologies to make the critical infrastructure components and services of a city —which include city administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation, and utilities —more intelligent, interconnected, and efficient.” (Forrester, 2011)
•“A smart city is based on intelligent exchanges of informationthat flow between its many different subsystems. This flow of information is analyzedand translated into citizen and commercial services. The city will act on this information flow to make its wider ecosystem more resource-efficient and sustainable. The information exchange is based on a smart governance operating framework designed for cities sustainable.” (Gartner, 2011)
Practitioner’sview

6. By 2016, over 80% of smart city projects will not qualify as smart city projects because
they will address only one city domain -Gartner
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7. Smart City Parameters
Smart meters
Smart Grids
Intelligent energy storage
eLearning
Personalized learning
Virtual classroom
Sensor networks
Digital management of water and waste management
Resource awareness
ehealthand mhealth
Intelligent medical devices
Personalized healthcare
Smart parking
Advanced Traffic management
Intelligent boards
4G connectivity
IoT
Free Wi-Fi
Fiber-to-the-home
Big Data analytics
Smart Education
Smart Energy
Smart Infrastructure
e-gov/m-gov
Smart services
Smart life style choices
Use of green mobility options
Smart health care
Technology
Smart mobility
Smart Governance
Smart citizens
Green Buildings
Renewable energy integration
Intelligent building management
Smart Buildings
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8. Smart city planning principles
start with an urban plan that clearly states the key objectives
Cities priorities are different
Approach? Greenfield vs. Brownfield
Greenfield: broader plan (holistic approach)
Brownfield: tactical view and gradual with small executable projects
Urban planners + CDO + CIO’s work together to:
Define stakeholders and requirements
Priorities, constraints, challenges
Define the smart city initiative as a holistic formula of technology and citizen services
Develop a smart city framework
Develop measurements of business and citizens impact
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9. Smart City Topology
Gartner Smart City topology
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10. What is a Digital Strategy?
Maximizing digital opportunities for a smart city initiative
Is a business answer to a digital question
How should the city evolve to survive and thrive in an increasingly digital world
A lens on business strategy
Each city sets its own unique priorities
A digital Strategy depends on a smart city framework adopted
A pragmatic approach to a digital strategy must be considered
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11. Areas of Focus of a Smart City Digital Strategy
Smart city digital strategy
Added Value
Open Innovation
Technology
Inter- operability
Public- Private Partnerships
Citizen- centricity
Digital security
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12. Added Value
Value for all constituents: Citizens, government, businesses
Citizens:
Focus on diversity of citizen needs
Differentiated services convenience according to user profile, preference, usage,,,etc
Government:
Operational efficiency,
Cost efficiency
More sustainable infrastructure and services
Business:
Digital services to generate revenue shared with government
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13. citizen services
Provider: government departments, service providers, public-private partnership
Citizen-centric services
Focus on citizen experience
Personalized experience
Multi-channel delivery of services with focus on mobile
Co-creation of community services
Monitoring users behavior and service consumption
Social networking
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14. Open Innovation
Effective use of city open data to produce new apps
and services
Service innovation based on citizen engagement
through multiple channels including social media
Effective crowdsourcing strategies
Levergedata from IoTand M2M for digital business
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15. Public-Private Partnerships
Public-Private partnerships
Engage in public-private partnerships to develop business services that citizens can use
Forging mutual benefits partnerships
Explore alternative sourcing models to partner with relevant industries and technology providers in smart city ecosystem
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16. Interoperability & Integration
Interoperability between the different OT of the various sector domains.
An Interoperable physical and logical understanding of process flows of data from different systems must be ensured
Standards for data sharing and exchange must be defined
Explore Open-source and open industry standards
Challenge:Integration between OP network and communication network is critical and often complex
The concept of data sharing platform
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17. Technology
Hype cycle for smart city technologies and solution 2014 -Gartner
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18. Technology
Benefits and adoption of smart city technologies and solutions
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19. Digital Security
To mitigate digital risk
Need to protect digital assets of all forms in digital business and ensure that relationships among those assets can be trusted
Digital security is a convergence of Info. Sec, IT security, OT security, and IoTSecurity
Ensure Privacy issues

20. Other Considerations for The Digital Strategy
Information management strategy
People strategy
Data gathering, analytical, decision making and pattern recognition
Collaboration and working in virtual teams
Challengesinclude search for talents
New roles, e.g. chief digital officer
Capacity building, Preparing digital citizens and digital workforce
Governance
Clear measurements to assess impact on citizens and businesses
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21. Dubai Smart City initiative
Dubai, the first Arab smart city
Push by the visionary leadership of HH Sheikh Mohammed
“We strive to catalyzeinnovation and push the limits of using technology to benefit people,,,Our goal is to improve the quality of life as we aim to harness technology for the establishment of a new reality in the city of Dubai, a different life, and a different development model. Our ambition is that this project touches the life of everyone in our country, or every mother in her house, or every employee in his work, or every investor in his project, or every child in his school, and doctor in his clinic. Our goal is to bring about happiness to all. May Allah help us in achieving this end,” Sheikh Mohammed said.
Dubai smart city’s main aim is to provide better connections and increase cooperation between the emirate and its residents. It promotes the use of government facilities using the largest possible number of smart applications.
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22. Dubai Smart City initiativeDubai as the “smartest city in the world”
New initiative to make Dubai a world hub for innovation
Investing 4.5 Billion Dhsto transform Dubai Internet city and media city into innovation and smart communities
Aim: creating the “smartest” environment in the world for innovation
Transport
Communications
Infrastructure
Electricity
Economic services
Urban planning
100 Initiatives
1000 smart services
Dubai Smart City Strategy
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Principles: Communication, integration and cooperation

23. Dubai Smart City Initiative
Silicon Park Project
Dubai smart learning initiative
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25. Conclusions
Vision and existence of an urban strategic plan is a must
Stakeholders cooperation is key for data/information exchange
A pragmatic approach to digital strategy should be considered
Integrating the different OP systems and technologies is important
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27. Thank you
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