Asia-Pacific Smart City Panorama

This report provides an analysis of smart city dynamics among five key Asia Pacific Cities.

The analysis drew on the following questions:

• What is the national context supporting the development of smart cities?
• What are the key urban challenges that cities are facing?
• Is the development of smart city initiatives and projects supported by an ongoing smart city strategy or a smart city plan?
• What is the governance scheme set up to accompany smart city development?
• How cities are dealing with connectivity and data issues, considering these two elements as prerequisite for smart city projects’ implementation?
• What are the key smart city on-going projects and applications and their overall level of maturity?