Working group to Accelerate Smart City Progressive Transformation

A study in 2019 analysed the best practices that successful European cities use as part of their strategic principles in designing and implementing the vision of smart city. One of the critical strategic principles is to accelerate the city’s digital transformation by establishing a smart city accelerator. Mora et al., (2019) defined this as a working group that focused on pushing the progressive transformation of the smart city. This working group may be a part of city council, or a new group established from a public-private institution. The goal of the working group is to strengthen the capacity of the individuals and organisation that delivers the ICT-related initiatives to collaborate better and improved the quality of the deliverables. Based on the best practice in Amsterdam,, Barcelona, Helsinki and Vienna, the activities that the working group may tackle includes: production of new ideas, provide information and financial instruments for projects, building relationships with external stakeholders, monitor and evaluate finished project, ensuring that ongoing projects are aligened with the strategic framework, and also promoting the smart city development to aid new partnership or procurement of new resource. 

Reference:

Mora, L., Deakin, M., & Reid, A. (2019). Strategic principles for smart city development: A multiple case study analysis of European best practices. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 142, 70-97.

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