This document discusses what constitutes a smart city. It provides several definitions of a smart city, including one that describes it as using technology to make city infrastructure and services like administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate, transportation and utilities more intelligent and efficient. Another definition describes a smart city as having sustainable economic development and high quality of life through management of resources and engagement between citizens and government. The document also discusses why smart cities are needed due to population growth, climate change and new technologies. It outlines some characteristics of a smart city model and challenges to implementing smart city initiatives.

2. What is Smart City ?
“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”
A city can be defined as ‘smart’ when investments in human and
social capital and traditional (transport) and modern (ICT)
communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic
development and a high quality of life, with a wise management
of natural resources, through participatory action and
engagement. (Caragliu et al. 2009)
The most effective definition of a smart city is a community that is
efficient, livable, and sustainable— and these three elements go
hand-in-hand.
A city “connecting the physical infrastructure, the IT
infrastructure, the social infrastructure, and the
business infrastructure to leverage the collective
intelligence of the city”
A Smart City is one that is able to link physical capital
with social one, and to develop better services and infrastructures.
It is able to bring together
technology, information, and political vision, into a coherent
Programme of urban and service
improvements.
Forrester, Smart City is the combined use of software systems, server
infrastructure, network infrastructure, and client devices to better
connect seven critical city infrastructure components and services: city
administration, education, healthcare, public safety, real estate,
transportation, and utilities (Smart City, 2012).
A city well performing in a forward-looking way in economy, people, governance,
mobility, environment, and living, built on the smart combination of endowments and
activities of self-decisive, independent and aware citizens.
IBM’s Smart Cities digitize and
connect infrastructures (IOT) to infuse
them with new intelligence (IBM,
2012).

3. Why Do We Need a Smart City ?
population growth
There will be more than 9 billion humans in the world in 2050, and about 70 percent of them
will live in urban areas
The challenges of climate change
There will be an urgent need for smarter, more sustainable cities to make life bearable for
so many people
New Technologies

4. The Smart City Model
A Smart City is a city well performing in 6 characteristics
Smart Economy
(Competitiveness)
• Different source of Money
• Food Hub
• Flexibility and Labor Market
• Manufacturing distribution
• Improving the environment for trade,
tourism and investment
• Power Grid
Smart Environment
(Natural Resources)
• Reduce CO2
• Paperless in Governments
• Green and energy Efficient Houses
• More Trees in cities
• Clean Energy
• Unified Communication
Smart People
Smart Government
(Social and Human Capital)
(Participation)
• Level of qualification
• Open Mindedness
• Awareness of Smart City
• Flexibility
• Relaxed Economy
• Participation in public life
• Open Data
• Connected together
• Employee Level of Qualification
• Paperless Environment
• E-Services
• Employees Attitude
Smart Living
Smart Mobility
(Participation)
(Transportation)
• Level of qualification
• Smart Home
• Smart Education and Health
• Smart Applications
• Different types of transportation
• Smart Roads
• Smart Applications
• Car Pooling

5. The Smart City Challenges
Implementation
Governance, Policy, Rules and Regulations
Privacy, Security and Trust
Governments Connections and Open Data
Citizen Engagement and Attitude
Lock of Funding in Some Cities
More Money For Vendors and Less money For my Kids
Unstable Politically

6. Question
Can information and technology improve
the quality of life in cities?

7. Smart IT
Custom Driven
Store Once,
Efficient
Compliance
Multiple Organizations
Use

8. Efficient Organization

9. Efficient Organization

10. Smart IT
Custom Driven
Integration
Store Once,
With
Efficient
Compliance
Multiple
Outside
Organization
Use
World

11. Smart City Development Framework
1. Governance
2. Vision and Roadmap
3. Identification of city priorities
4. Bringing in the right technology
5.Integration
6. Innovation and Simulation Lab
7. Driving Collaboration
8. Awareness and Training

12. Countries
Economically
Bahrain
Politically
Toward Smart
Egypt
KSA
Qatar
Syria
Kuwait
UAE
Oman
Iran
Lebanon
Yemen
Algeria
Tunis
Jordan
Sudan
Morocco
Palestine
Iraq