Bhubaneswar in Top 50 Smart City Government rankings
Bhubaneswar in Top 50 Smart City Government rankings released by Singapore firms Eden Strategy Institute and ONG&ONG Experience Design
Singapore-based Eden Strategy Institute has unveiled a global Top 50 Smart City Government rankings, in a study conducted with OXD (ONG&ONG Experience Design).
Bhubaneswar has been ranked 32nd along with Ahmedabad. Other Indian cities in the list were New Delhi at the 23rd spot, Surat at 27th, Jaipur at 34th and Pune at 36th. London, followed by Singapore, Seoul, New York and Helsinki rounded out the top 5.
Eden Strategy Institute is a strategy consulting firm specializing in Business System Innovation dealing with the global issues of urbanization, disease, poverty, illiteracy, and exploitation by formulating strategies, models, processes, and products to create, realize, and sustain an economic impact. OXD (ONG&ONG Experience Design) is the Experience Design consultancy arm of ONG&ONG, which started as an architecture firm and is now an award-winning multi-disciplinary design house focused on creating and building beautiful experiences through a complete 360 degree design approach.
By comparing cities from around the world and at different economic stages, the Eden Strategy Institute and OXD examined how effective different strategies can be in creating a smart city aiming to “provide insight into how city governments can coordinate their smart city initiatives better in ways that reflect a deep understanding of the human condition and the transformative power of citizen ownership and empowerment.”
The 2018/19 rankings studied 140 smart cities, from which the Top 50 Smart City Governments were ranked across ten parameters:
1) Clarity of Vision;
2) Leadership;
3) Budget;
4) Provision of financial incentives;
5) Support programmes;
6) Talent-Readiness;
7) People-centric approach;
8) Development of an Innovation Ecosystem;
9) Implementation of “Smart” Policies; and
10) Track Record of previous initiatives and projects
Interviews were also conducted with city officials to validate facts, measure outcomes, and learn about the unique challenges and pathways taken by each city.
As many as 15 Asian cities and 12 cities from the United States made it to the final Top 50 list.
