09:00 - 10:30 | Session 4: Smart City Policy Framework and City-to-City Cooperation for Smart Sustainable City Development
In times of limited resources and the need to devise smart and innovative solutions to meet modern urban challenges on an urgent basis, city-to-city cooperation can serve as an efficient and effective way to mobilize development resources to help cities jointly work towards sustainable urbanization. By strengthening the capacity of cities around the world to define and resolve their problems themselves in close engagement with their citizens, city-to-city or “decentralized” cooperation can help cities explore synergies and build potentially cost-effective and mutually beneficial partnerships based on shared experiences and best practices among peer groups.
This session will demonstrate effective policy framework on developing a smart city and feature collaboration among cities in Asia, as well as Asian and European Cities, to showcase how cities are joining forces to share resources, catalyze action and develop smart and transformative solutions based on technology-enabled innovation.
Chair and Moderator: Dr. Arvind Kumar Mishra, Member of Board of Directors, FTTH Council Asia-Pacific
Speakers and Panellists:
• Sr. Hj Rozali Hj Mohamud, Municipal Secretary [Deputy Mayor-level], Municipality of
Seberang Perai, Malaysia
• Mr. Tony Jun, Project Advisor, Overseas Project Development, Seoul Urban Solutions
Agency
• Mr. Parakrama Dahanayake, Former City Councilor, Galle Municipal Council, Sri Lanka
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11:00 - 12:30 | Session 5: Partnering with Smart Citizens for The City We Need Recent experiences from cities and local governments show that ICT-enabled civic participation can enhance the dialogue between city managers and citizens for more inclusive, empowered and creative communities. This session will highlight success stories of local governments in using smart technologies to foster citizen engagement in local governance throughout the process of policy and service development –by such means as online referendums, open data systems, and crowd sourcing platforms --to ensure that the voices of all are heard and the needs of all are met.
The shared stories will shed light, among other things, on the following questions: How are local governments receiving citizen feedback and reflecting them in policy development, letting citizens know that they have been heard and their input considered?; How have cities concretely benefited from introducing systems that encourage inclusive policy making and civic engagement?; How are local governments ensuring that citizens, especially the least represented/marginalized, are aware of, have the capacity, and actually use civic participation systems?
Chair and Moderator: Ms. Haidy Ear-Dupuy, Social Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Speakers and Panellists:
• Mr. Kinlay Dorjee, Mayor, Thimphu Municipality, Bhuta
• Ms. Germie O. Deang, Head, ICT Division, City Government of San Fernando La
Union, Philippines
• Mr. Shiva Raj Adhikari, Deputy Director, International Relations, Kathmandu, Nepal
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14:00 - 15:30 | Session 6: IoTs and Data Revolution for the Smart Sustainable City Immense amounts of data are being generated every day in our cities through an ever growing array of innovative technologies, including smartphones, social media, and the Internet of Things (IoT). As city leaders around the world grapple with the implications of “Big Data”, it is becoming clear that data may represent one of the most powerful modern assets that if harnessed properly, can deepen the understanding of how cities function, inform the policy and decision-making processes, and support the monitoring of results across urban sectors for enhanced efficiency, quality of life, and new economic opportunities.
Through case studies and expertise in IoTs/Big Data, speakers in this session will examine ways to improve how data is generated/ used and various implications of data for cities.
Chair and Moderator: Dr. Abbas Maaroof, Consultant, UNDP-Jakarta
Speakers and Panellists:
• Ms. Mellyana Frederika, Programme Specialist, Pulse Lab Jakarta- UN Global Pulse
• Dr. Hoai Duc Nguyen, Head, IT Division, Department of Information and
Communications, Da Nang, Vietnam
• Ms. Waltraut Ritter, Managing Director at Knowledge Dialogues and Honorary Advisor
to the Digital21 Strategy Advisory Committee of the HKSAR Government
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