3. Did you ever think about????
1. Why people move to new locations
or why they stay where they are?
2. What Corporations and companies look
for besides Tax Rebates when moving into
your province or city?
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4. Did you ever think about the Changing
role you as Elected officials,
Technologists,
Educators, Citizens and Vendors will Play
in the 21st Century ?
4 | Smart Communities | June 2009
5. THE WORLD IS CHANGING
FROM RURAL TO
URBAN GROWTH
Urban populations will grow by an estimated 2.3 billion over
the next 40 years, and as much as 70% of the world’s population
will live in cities by 2050
FROM PLANET IN BALANCE TO
CHANGING PLANET GLOBAL WARMING/POPULATION EXPLOSION
Cities consume 75% of the world’s energy and
produce 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions
FROM YOUTHFUL POPULATION TO
AGING POPULATION
Each year, the percentage of people over the age of 60
increases—by 2050 the number of people over the age of
60 is expected to triple and will outnumber children under
15 for the first time in human history
MAKING SMARTER COMMUNITIES
A NECESSITY
7. Service and content delivery: a user centric
vision Any media
Next Gen Browsers
Any screen
Anywhere
Always on
Always in synch
Always in touch
Rich media for the mobile
Location relevant
8. MOBILE DATA EXPLOSION IS CHANGING THE GAME
Worldwide Aggregate
Mobile Traffic
Pbytes/Month
7,000
Dongle/tablets By 2015…
6,000
Smartphones
5,000 Feature phones Smartphone density
32x increase per km2
4,000 30x growth
Connections
3,000 over 5 years! 2.5 billion
2,000
1,000 Video
70% of mobile traffic
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: Bell Labs modeling and forecasts
A great industry to work…
9. Are you ready for an information tsunami…
Growing mobile
adoption Rise of the millenials
The Millennials
generation born
and/or raised
with Internet
(11-25 years old)
Within 5 years, millennials
2011 roughly 4 billion will spread their “early-
Fixed broadband life people will be carrying adopters” life style into their
applications
Massively adopted now mobile phones ! adult lives & enterprises
and “exportable” to mobile
New
Connected mobile broadband
life style soon becomes
My life in my handset mainstream…
New generation of devices
ecosystem
and communicating machines
Rich
10. VISION FOR SMART COMMUNITIES
• Vision: Enrich life with more
intelligent connections among
devices and people with:
• an unlimited, ubiquitous and connected
environment in which people, machines
and applications interact seamlessly
• Ensure the Vision of Smart City is
Obtained by a Policy applied to
address:
• Community value and financial gain
have equal priorities
• A fair pricing for all services provided
thus making it affordable for all the
community segments
• The government acts as a catalyst as
well as a facility provider
“Improving quality of life and safety in the community by maximizing economic
and social development through an unlimited, ubiquitous and connected
environment.”
11. SMART COMMUNITIES ARE THE DRIVERS FOR PROVINCIAL AND
LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY TOWARD
NETWORK TRANSFORMATION
• Attract new citizens, new businesses, new visitors
Economic • Keep all the citizens, business and develop new services
development • Allows everyone to become a business center
• Deliver broadband services for all
Social • Improve quality of life
development • Live healthier, live better live longer
• Enjoy high potential of eco-sustainable IT
• Interconnect administrations/jurisdictions/agencies
Public services • Improve services (public safety, single point of contact)
modernization using Web “X”.0 platforms
12. Focus on Web “X”.0 platforms
Extend broadband networks for all citizens and administrations
Capture information and communications technology (ICT) benefits
e-business e-education
Wider and better access to
e-commerce for extended network of knowledge
customers and suppliers
ICT literacy development
e-transactions (efficiency) for supply
chain and payment Distance e-learning
e-employment e-health
Development of the ICT workforce Tele-diagnosis
Tele-working to connect remote Monitoring of health indicators
areas with main office and reduce Secure health records
traffic congestion
Training of health professionals
Expand ICT benefits
13. …WHICH ENHANCES THE URBAN LIFESTYLE
PUBLIC/PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIPS
Connected
Cars Traffic
Efficient Shared Management
SMART Transport
Safety & Smart Grid/ E-Health
CITIES Security E-Shopping Smart
Metering
Zero Waste
E-Learning
OPEN
BROADBAND
NETWORKS
TO ENRICH DAILY LIFE
14. SMART COMMUNITIES ARE
DRIVEN BY INNOVATION…
SMART GOVERNANCE SMART PEOPLE SMART ENVIRONMENT
• Democratic processes and inclusion • delivering a more consistent educational • environmental sustainability/energy
• Interconnecting governmental experience in both urban and rural areas consumption
organizations and administrations • e-education solutions (remote learning • reducing energy consumption through
• improving community access to services and collaboration) novel technology innovations while
promoting energy conservation and
material re-use
SMART MOBILITY SMART ECONOMY SMART LIVING
• more efficient and intelligent • regional/global competitiveness • Access to high-quality healthcare
transportation systems • Broadband access for all citizens and services (including e-health or remote
• leveraging networks for efficient businesses for business opportunities healthcare monitoring),
movement of vehicles, people, and • Independent of location, helping maintain • electronic health records management,
goods, to reduce gridlock population in rural areas, • home automation, smart home and
• new ‘social’ attitudes such as car • electronic means in business processes smart building services
sharing, car pooling, and car-bike of all kinds (e.g., e-banking, e-shopping, • Access to social services of all kinds.
combinations e-auction)
15. Trends
Drivers
Be ahead of global Trends…
Capacity development Inter-Agency collaboration Improved operations Open Standards
Bridge the digital divide Transparency Act Shared Services Transversal Security Systems
Innovation Specific population needs Virtualization Interoperability
economic development
Barriers
Lack of capacity Silo Lack of funding Heterogeneous IT
to embrace Organizations for initial proprietary interfaces
globalization investment
