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Comments on other issues: Smart city index coming to Indonesia
March 25, p2Decades ago, urban conglomerations competed to clinch âglobal cityâ or âworld cityâ status by luring big corporations to establish headquarters in their city
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Decades ago, urban conglomerations competed to clinch 'global city' or 'world city' status by luring big corporations to establish headquarters in their city. Now, the global 'smart city' concept has reached Indonesia.
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In my opinion, Makassar is the first city in Indonesia to launch a smart city program.
A smart city should provide its residents with hi-tech facilities to connect residents with the authorities.
With smartphone technology for example, residents could carry out interactive communication with city officials when they want to deliver their complaints.
Yuan Roselia
It is another meaningless buzzword. Last time I remember it was the word 'green': green this, green that, green whatever. Nothing ever happens.
Now the word is 'smart'. It is even tougher I guess. I bet the result of the survey will say that the majority of the cities are in the scattered category.
Of course in reality that's not the case (surely lower than that), but at least this category is the one that can be compromised on by the surveyors and the city mayors.
Nobody wins and nobody loses; but surely everybody gets his or her own little bite out of the allocated funding.
Itsbad
Smart requires education. Unfortunately, Indonesia is reluctant to invest in it.
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