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2022 Asia Smart City Ranking——Jointly Released by Harbor Overseas and iGCU

September 27 , 2022 06:15 PM by Chen Xi
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Date

Sep. 27th, 2022

Location

Online

Characteristics


1. This ranking with regional integration orientation will lead development strategies of smart cities in developing economies in Asia, and promotes cross-regional economic and security system integration;

2. 37 indicators from digital, traditional, and institutional infrastructure, as well as people participation present the smart city coordinated action map of "business, technology, and mechanism";

3. 32 senior officials and experts around the world to put the weights on the indicators.

Conclusions

To evaluate 51 cities and find:

1. The smart city development of cities in mainland China is high and occupy the top 10;

2. Kuala Lumpur, Novosibirsk, Bangkok, Istanbul, and Yekaterinburg also performed well in general;

3. Specifically, Kuala Lumpur and Manila performed well in indicators of traditional infrastructure, while Kolkata and Mumbai performed well in data factor market construction.

Discussions

1. Cities in mainland China face three challenges: the lack of a multi-layer planning and control system, data factor market with the absence of the incentives for the public, and the further improvement in people participation;

2. It is recommended that Hong Kong and Macau make full use of their advantages of the integration with global rules and intellectual property protection;

3. It is recommended that Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, and Jakarta continue to strengthen the construction of high-quality communication network, perception system, rail transit network, energy Internet, and health network to achieve the cross-regional connectivity with Putrajaya, Eastern Economic Corridor or Bandung, respectively;

4. Novosibirsk, Almaty, and Tashkent are difficult to form the digital in-depth, and the core challenge for them is to continuously create an innovative institutional environment;

5. The pragmatic choices of developing smart cities for Kolkata, Islamabad, Amman and cities in Central Asia are to focus on their industrial characteristics.