Yokohama City’s 9th Asia Smart City Conference Read more about Yokohama City’s 9th Asia Smart City Conference "Smart City Development” is sustainable city development. It should raise the quality of life of citizens by promoting well-balanced sustainable development and making use of diverse and innovative technologies created by public and private sector partnerships. Many discussions about Smart Cities have taken place on the international scene. Now is the time to move forward and take concrete actions based on those discussions.
ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund Read more about ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund This presentation gives an overview of a Denmark Company working with ADB. It tackles on building Smart Cities and discusses adoption of digital solutions to improve city planning systems, service delivery and financial management.
Adam Beck Keywords Adam Beck Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand smart cities digital twins Read more about Adam Beck Adam is the founding Executive Director of Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand, an organisation that is part of the world's largest network of smart cities practitioners and policy makers that advocates for the adoption of technology, data-driven decision making and intelligent design as an accelerator to sustainability outcomes in cities.
Gender Transformative Early Warning System Read more about Gender Transformative Early Warning System This presentation discussed Practical Action's work on gender-transformative early warning systems.
Flood early warning in Asia, exploring new solutions Read more about Flood early warning in Asia, exploring new solutions This presentation discussed Deltares' experience with flood early warning systems in Asia.
Improving sustainable design of cities through flood adaptation modelling using C-FAST Read more about Improving sustainable design of cities through flood adaptation modelling using C-FAST This presentation discussed how to use flood modeling capabilities to improve adaptation against flooding in cities.
Improving flood management as part of Baguio’s smart city plan Read more about Improving flood management as part of Baguio’s smart city plan This presentation gave an overview of Baguio City's challenges and smart city initiatives with regard to flood management.
Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 and Beyond this Pandemic Read more about Airborne Transmission of COVID-19 and Beyond this Pandemic This presentation discussed mitigation measures against indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19, such as appropriate building engineering controls, such as sufficient and effective ventilation, air disinfection, avoiding air recirculation, and overcrowding. It also emphasized the need for new guidelines for measures on airborne infection transmission for building design, engineering controls, and operations, citing examples of these measures.
Amazon Web Services COVID-19 Data Lake Read more about Amazon Web Services COVID-19 Data Lake This presentation discussed how public data lakes, such as AWS's COVID-19 Data Lake can be an essential source of knowledge to get insights from local communities and cities and to build situational awareness rapidly. It also pointed out how cloud platforms can support customers to speed up the path to modernization without the need for having to build technologies themselves and harness data-at-scale and partner ecosystems.
Spatial Data Analysis of COVID-19 in Makassar Read more about Spatial Data Analysis of COVID-19 in Makassar This presentation discussed how Ur-scape, a GIS-based visualization and data tool developed by the Future Cities Laboratory, was used to perform a cross-sectoral analysis in the Indonesian city of Makassar to identify positive correlations between COVID-19 transmission patterns and population density, land use, main transport hubs, access to water and income level. It also emphasized the need for multisectoral planning, specifically in the integration and combining of data for better urban planning to achieve truly resilient cities.