Honourable Deborah L. Wince-Smith
President & CEO, U.S. Council on Compe��veness, GFCC, Founding Member of MSCA
A balanced smart city development Smart city is a con�nuum because that’s true in many dimensions of life. We need to apply smart thinking and unleash educa�onal poten�al for all. Giving everyone access to this new world is the democra�sa�on of innova�on. We need net equality, providing affordable, secure broadband connec�vity to all. But ensuring security without using authoritarian, an�-human surveillance tools is a challenge. We have challenges and opportuni�es. Collabora�ons, doing things that will be another chapter in the human evolu�on are cri�cal. And this has accelerated during this Covid-19 pandemic. Digital access People have access to roads, water and power. But having access to digital capability is also in the same category now. You can’t be an entrepreneur or func�on in the 21st century if you don’t have those tools. They’re really almost a human right, not a luxury anymore. Accelera�ng the smart city growth One, it’s about engaging people in the prac�cal things that are happening so that there is a greater comfort and interest across society. Two, there is a lot of technology now in Europe, Asia or the United States, that has many solu�ons to transporta�on, healthcare, educa�on and housing. MIGHT has always been good at looking out to the world and seeing what else is going on. And then..the combina�on of working with leaders and the people. You’ve got the poli�cal power, the government’s leadership, you’ve got the corporate power of finance and wealth and you have the people, the workers. You need all three of them to see the benefits. Ways to improve things .. listen to people…do something economically sound and have an environmental, sustainability design included so that the outcome in twenty, thirty years is a nicer life. And climate changes are contained.
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Ini�al thinking behind the smart city agenda in Malaysia At the 2017 Global Innova�on Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia focussed on sustainable produc�on and how urbanisa�on and ci�es were driving this. To start with, the thinking behind smart city was urbanisa�on, connec�vity, cleaner energy and delivering services to ci�zens, and how ci�es are becoming test beds for transforma�on, embracing compe��veness, innova�veness and sustainability.
Jerry Hultin Co-Founder Malaysia Smart City Alliance
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Malaysia’s poten�al in smart dity development In Malaysia, you have a government and agencies like MIGHT that are focussed on innova�on. Ci�es are one of the places to do this. You’ve already created Cyberjaya, Putrajaya and Johor Iskandar. It showed capacity to imagine where nothing exists and create something new and be�er.
XIII | Malaysia Smart City Outlook 2021 - 2022
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