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Smart Cities

Presentation touching upon a range of digital policy issues related to Smart Cities.

RandeepSudan
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Smart Cities

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  1. Smart Cities Bangkok June 2, 2017

  2. The Power of Focus!

  3. What would a focus on ‘Jobs for the future’ look like?

  4. Where would we start?

  5. Assessing Demand for Skills: Job Postings

  6. Assessing Demand: Online Talent Platforms

  7. Assessing Demand: Venture Capital Investments

  8. Source: NVCA

  9. Initiative 1: Launch a Data Analytics Challenge to Track Demand for Jobs/Skills locally and globally • Academia • Universities • Private Sector • Burning Glass, EMSI • Data Analytics: IBM (Watson) • LinkedIn, Monster • Others • Challenge Platforms • Innocentive • Kaggle

  10. Initiative 2:Establish a Data Analytics Support Capability(in partnership with Universities/Private Sector) • Singapore’s Business Analytics Translation Centre

  11. How would we develop the skills?

  12. Initiative 3: Innovative and Future Oriented Skills Development Strategies • Take advantage of University 4.0 in EEC • Closely coordinate with private sector • Involve international experts on the future of work

  13. Attracting high end research

  14. Patents A patent family is a set of either patent applications or publications taken in multiple countries to protect a single invention by a common inventor(s) and then patented in more than one country. A first application is made in one country – the priority – and is then extended to other offices.

  15. Source: WIPO Indicators 2016

  16. Initiative 4: Selective targeting of high value companies and universities • Identify digital infrastructure needs • Customize skills development • Attract international talent

  17. What jobs would we attract?

  18. Emerging Technologies • Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Machine Learning • Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality • Digital Twins • Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers • Digital Technology Platforms

  19. Initiative 5: Inventorize problems • Launch an initiative to create an inventory of problems to be solved • Connect problem with problem owner • Prioritize emerging technologies in solving the problems

  20. Initiative 6: Data centric strategy • Open datasets • Open platforms for storing and sharing sensor data • Data matching between data owners and data analyzing businesses • Data maps indicating current status of public and private data • Data 114 service helping businesses to locate, process and broker data • Appoint a Chief Data Officer

  21. Initiative 7: Blockchain as a focus • Create one of the cities as a hub for Blockchain solutions and companies • Develop a Thai Blockchain strategy in partnership with companies and institutions (e.g. the Blockchain Research Institute in Canada)

  22. Building Information Modeling

  23. Initiative 8: Creation of digital twins • Begin systematic digitization of physical infrastructure • Mandate BIM for new constructions • Help smaller companies to pursue twinning strategies

  24. The opportunity in… Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality

  25. Tim Cook on Augmented Reality “I regard it as a big idea like the smartphone... I think AR is that big, it’s huge”.

  26. Magic Leap

  27. Microsoft’s Hololens

  28. Google’s Visual Positioning System

  29. Augmented Reality (Tourism)

  30. KDDI’s Warp Cube

  31. National Strategy on AR/VR/MR • National strategy integrating with Thailand 4.0 • Tourism as a priority sector • Digitization of physical objects e.g. buildings, infrastructure, utilities, supply chains, retail businesses, and manufacturing • Creation of digital twins for spatial planning and modeling • An international event hosted in Thailand • Engagement with companies like Samsung, Google, Facebook (Oculus), Intel, Nvidia, Microsoft, LG, HTC, Sony, Gopro, Magic Leap and others.

  32. The Fundamentals

  33. Roles National City Problem definitions Localization of strategies Common Strategic Foresight Data analytics Stakeholder engagement Capacity building • Strategic foresight • Broadband infrastructure (5G) • IoT networks • Data standards, pooling and portability • Data protection and cyber security • Policy on cross-border data flows

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