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First Theme: Smart Cities

He explained the five components of technicalities, which contribute towards smart
cities reality. The first is the broadband connectivity and is essential in connecting

people and things with a high-speed Internet access. Second is the smart personal

device equipped with sensors, such as autonomous cars, smart watches, smart home
devices, smart wireless health and security bands and smart phones. It provides

constant monitoring and real time data stream of people, places and devices for instant
Google Street View. Next is the big data that is coming from people that created digital

traces on the Internet via social media, government and sensors. Fourth is the public

interface, like the new digital experience initiative at Federation Square, Melbourne,
which provides visitors with user-generated digital content projected on interactive

LED panels. Another example is the Vivid Sydney, an annual outdoor lighting festival
with animated buildings, immersive light installations and projections in Sydney.

Copenhagen, Denmark is also pursuing its smart cities initiative giving focus in testing

smart technologies to handle the challenges of urbanisation and climate change.
Helsinki, Finland and Montreal, Canada are also enhancing cityscapes and investing

it its ambitious smart and digital cities for a sustainable living and digitally connected
society. Finally, the fifth element is the cloud computing, which provide service and

storage to collect, analyse and share data. Smart city vision involves enriching quality
of life by gaining data insights from interconnected sensors, devices and people to

improve government’s services, performance and efficiency.

Second Theme: Citizen Experience

Mr. Foth urged stakeholders to have policies to support the country’s technology
endeavours through desirable features for the greater good of humanities to ensure

that technology blends in well with citizen experience. Reiterating earlier example, he
highlighted how smart technology in Federation Square allow people to engage and

participate in public space. Discussion in Space is another prototype project in

Brisbane which offers the government to engage with residents through text messages
and tweets onto large screen. Hospitals and libraries can apply this same concept,

which allow quicker feedback and surveys from citizens. InstaBooth, a research
project on the use and design of community gives insight how citizens appreciate

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