High Speed Wireless Strategies of Intelligent Communities

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High Speed Wireless Strategies of Intelligent
Communities

• Presented by
• John G. Jung
• Chairman
• Intelligent Community Forum
• DIGITAL CITIES CONFERENCE
• Taipei, May 29, 2006

INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM www.intelligentcommuni
ty.com
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The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2006

• Broadband infrastructure
• Knowledge-based workforce
• Innovation
• Digital democracy
• Marketing and Advocacy

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Most of the 2006 Smart 21 and Top 7 cities are
early adopters and have a wireless strategy as
part of the transformation of their communities

• Great cities seize the opportunity to be early
  adopters of new technologies.
• To enhance competitive and locational advantages.
  
• To empower residents, workers and employers.
• To maximize the human potential of its people.

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What is an Intelligent Community?

• Intelligent Communities
• Recognize the impact of broadband and its role as
  an essential utility for job creation and
  economic growth in the new BROADBAND ECONOMY
• Work to create a culture of use among citizens,
  businesses and government to stimulate economic
  development and political participation
• Ensure that low-income and at-risk populations
  can all participate in the broadband economy
• Transformation at every level of live, work and
  play
• Wireless infrastructure and e-government
  efficiencies can lead to civic transformation
  smart meters e-government services,
  e-procurement, etc can also lead to public WIFI
  coverage

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Wireless infrastructure and e-government
efficiencies can lead to civic transformation

• Smart meters e-government services,
  e-procurement, etc. can also lead to public WIFI
  coverage

• Water, Electric, and Sanitation billing smart
  meters
• Accounting, budgeting, and financial management
  for all government services
• Centralized purchasing, receiving, and invoice
  tracking, on line and in real time.
• Real time inventory management and interactive
  voter registration.
• License processing, birth, marriages and death
  certificates.
• Consolidated Computer Aided Dispatch for
  Police, Fire, Security Ambulance
• Consolidated Criminal Investigation files for
  all local law enforcement agencies.
• Computerized central booking management and
  Municipal Court operations.
• Transportation, parking and transit logistics
  management (smart cars, handicapped)
• Mobile Health Services coordination, records,
  testing and videoconferencing
• Internal and external email and Internet
  information interchange.
• Planning and Development approvals and
  variances coordination
• Land management, transfers and mobile GIS
• Tourism and Investment attraction promotion
• Internet Service Provider (ISP) available to
  all citizens
• Comprehensive worldwide website connecting
  public, to government, to the world.

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• Toronto (TOP 7 2005) Wireless Initiatives
• Toronto Hydro Telecom
• - city-owned WIFI Mesh blankets city core
  by end of June, 2006

• Toronto Wi-Fi zone to cover 10 square
  kilometres will be the largest in the country
• Good example where wireless and e-government
  efficiencies can lead to civic transformation
• started with smart meters e-government
  services, e-procurement, etc but also public WIFI
  coverage
• From the end of June until Dec. 31, 2006,
  customers will be able to access Toronto Hydro
  WiFi for free
• After that, Toronto Hydro Telecom will offer
  the service at competitive rates (TBD)

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SMART 21 COMMUNITIES (2006)

• Dubai
• Cluster - Software Development, Business
  Services, Web Based and e-Commerce, Consultancy,
  Sales and Marketing and Back Office. 
• Expanded access to its e-Government system
• Citizens interact with all 64 government offices
  without having to use a dial-up or
  broadband-connected computer system.
• e-Government solution was based on J2EE, but the
  J2EE-based solutions for mobile access were
  expensive and relatively unproven.
• Microsoft .NETconnected mobility applications.
• Ducont demonstrated not only that these powerful
  applications could reliably interact with and
  extend the e-Government solution to all the
  citizens of Dubai, but also that the government
  could deploy the .NET-connected solution faster
  and at half the cost of the unproven J2EE-based
  alternatives.

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SMART 21 COMMUNITIES (2006)

• Evora Portugal- City Council and the University
  use digital technologies to leverage traditional
  strengths in tourism and food production. (pop.
  56,500)

FIVE axes of the new strategy for sustainability
and internationalization 1- World Heritage
(World Tourist Projection, Cultural International
Reference) 2- University City/Knowledge City
(Kognopolis pioneer project Wifi e-U
VirtualCampus) 3- City Opened to Innovation
(development of new niche specialization and
clusters) 4- City of Solidarity (attention to
older people continuity of the urban planning
social residence) 5-City of Mobility and
Intelligent Citizenship (City Portal with more
than 300 firms and organizations as members, with
free web services, email and FTP) .
Every Online Services - SOLE Free Internet
public access since 1996 WiFi in the main area
of the Historical Centre - HotEvora MuTIC-mobile
learning system for kindergartens and schools
Dream Shop - mobile broad band bus
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Sunderland, United Kingdom (Top 7, 2005)

• E-Government Team implementedpeoplefirst
• Aim - to adopt technology-based approaches to
  delivering efficient government services.
• Equipping front- line staff with wireless PDAs to
  check records and order services while engaged
  with citizens
• Identifying and training Community e-Champions

• Unrelenting commitment to control Sunderlands
  economic and social destiny led to
• Over 12,000 new jobs in technology-driven
  businesses
• Reduction of unemployment rate from 30 to 4
• 50 reduction of long-term unemployed since 2000
• Beacon Status for Social Inclusion award from
  UKs Local Government Association
• Ranked one of top five most competitive business
  locations in UK by KPMG