What’s next for city administrations, building further on success and learnings of smart city implementation.

So now that most of those cities which have already implemented and experimented with the smart city concept for once, what is there next, for city administrations to do better, and do it right in the next phase of smart city implementation?

1. Scaling up and replication opportunities for living labs and districts of experimentation.

2. A partnership approach (quadruple helix model and network governance)

3. Early community engagement, heterogeneity of community cross-section in participation, and tackling the digital divide in the context of smart city strategy.

4. Reinstating community trust in brand smart city, by publicizing learnings from the past, acknowledging long-term legacy challenges (e.g. flooding) and wicked problems (e.g. congestion), and mitigating privacy concerns.

5. Regional collaboration with peer cities and capacity building of smaller municipalities in the geographic area – adopting a smart region approach.

6. Enabling linkage of urban policies with sectoral policies (e.g. how come the supply chain doesn't embrace the idea of a smart city, while continuously interacting with and operating within the city.

7. Bringing AI and ML based businesses, and startup ecosystems under the ambit of urban policy or strategic smart city framework, if these businesses have any envisaged impact or use-case application in the built environment and management of the city in any form.

8. Unlocking the true potential of the digital twin, i.e. going beyond utility automation, traffic status, environmental sensing, and mapping of public amenities (i.e. exploring land use change scenario impact simulation, modal split change impact scenario analysis, flood modeling, vulnerability assessment, hazard simulation, climatic and extreme weather impact simulation ect.)

9. Exploring the social impacts of digitalization; exploring whether and how digitalization may contribute to building a fair, equal, and just urban society.

Author: Anoop Jha

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Fourteen distinct future technology trends!

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🌏TECHNOLOGY THAT KEEPS THE WORLD GOING: Technology without which the world may come to a standstill.

♾️UBIQUITOUS AND OMNIPRESENT TECHNOLOGY: The technology you only value when you find yourself disconnected

🧪TESTBED TECHNOLOGY: The unquenchable quest of mankind, pushing the technological limits.

🌐TECHNOLOGY FOR A PARALLEL WORLD: Technology that offers a new world construct and experience within the world.

📘KNOWLEDGE, ENTERTAINMENT, AND MASS COMMUNICATION: Technology that connects and accelerates the world interaction, shapes opinions, builds support, and prompts action.

💁‍♂️PERSONAL ASSISTANCE TECH: Technology provides such an opportunity at a time when taking care of yourself and your loved ones is as important.

⚙️NICHE TECH: A tech universe of its own.

🏛️TECH FOR CONSERVATION AND PRESERVATION: Tech that documents anything and everything - a digital repository for generations to come.

🔎EXPLORATORY TECH: Technology for human curiosity, tech that reveals what is unfathomable and mystical, and that is hidden in plain sight.

✅TECHNOLOGY AS A MEANS TO SOLVE URGENT WORLD PROBLEMS: Technology that makes quantification and visualization of the world’s problems possible, provides real-time support and unparallel solutions.

⚖️REGULATORY MECHANISM TO CURB THE EVILS OF TECHNOLOGY: Setting up the ethical, functional, notional boundaries of technology.

🧾RIGHT TO TECHNOLOGY: Access to technological means to be increasingly perceived as a right.

🙅‍♂️CHOICE TO OPT-OUT OF PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY: Also offering a possibility for respecting the choice of people who wants to opt out of technology.

⌛DIMINISHING CONCEPT OF TIME: Technology that makes the 24X7 world a possibility.

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What is there to learn from a fruit tree about the circular economy?

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Those who have seen the production of food closely in nature, understand the broader meaning and the potential opportunities that exist at the grassroots level. Take any fruit for example, the real magic happens before you find them on the supermarket shelves. If you have seen the lifecycle of a fruit of any kind for instance, how the tree is planted, how it is cared for, how it blossoms, how fruits mature, how they are harvested, how fruit is locally stored, preserved and consumed, and how fruit and tree parts are put to dozen different uses at the household and community level, you will appreciate the possibilities.

Say the mango tree in that remote village of India, that tree is an ecosystem in itself, it is worth much more than the means for shining fruit on the shelf of a mart, or juice inside a tetra pack. For instance, the leaves and branches of that tree are used on auspicious occasions and otherwise from birth to death as part of the culture, leaves are sometimes used for festive decoration, and sometimes in rituals, as well as for medicinal purposes; children climb up and down the tree, as they play; people make houses out of branches and twigs. That tree stands like a signpost and landmark for the village; stories are woven around the tree that makes its way to become part of the local culture; wood is even used in last rites.

The not yet ripened mango is used to make sweet and salty pickles of a dozen kinds and hence preserved for years. The unripe fruit is also used to make fresh, tangy, and refreshing drinks, to cool you down in summer. When ripened, mango either gets consumed just like that or goes on to make sweet dishes and drinks of another dozen kinds, preserved locally for another day, week, and month. When fruit season is about to end, local households know other techniques to dry, preserve and consume the mango pulp right until next year. Fruit at various stages is also processed and used in various home remedies. And when you have finished eating the fruit, plant that seed in your backyard and see it grow fast enough, only to get more fruits in the coming years. That mango tree and that mango orchard is an ecosystem in itself, and an economic pillar for households, it’s a full circle of life. Look at any fruit tree in your own region, it has much more value, utility, depth, and story than just a few kg equivalents of fruit that are sold in the market.

When we talk about circularity, this kind of encompassing and interdisciplinary learning will help us innovate. The circular economy is also about leveraging what we have, preserving what we can, and regenerating what is possible!

Author: Anoop Jha

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[Recent update

Starting 2024, launching urban management, interior design, home decor and commissioned artwork services in the Netherlands, serving local as well as international remote clients.

Please Note, that I am also conducting a FREE 45-minute online individual consultation on your interior design and home decor needs and aspirations if you are in the Netherlands or even internationally. Drop me an email at anoop.jha@gmail.com 

Please visit the web page "Urban Tenets" at https://urbantenets.nl/

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