High Speed Wireless Strategies of Intelligent Communities

1. High Speed Wireless Strategies of Intelligent Communities Presented by John G. Jung Chairman Intelligent Community Forum DIGITAL CITIES CONFERENCE Taipei, May 29, 2006 INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY FORUM www.intelligentcommunity.com

2. Manchester, UK Gangnam District, Seoul, Korea Tianjin, China Waterloo, Canada Cleveland, USA Taipei, Taiwan Ichikawa, Japan The Top Seven Intelligent Communities of 2006 • Broadband infrastructure • Knowledge-based workforce • Innovation • Digital democracy • Marketing and Advocacy

3. Most of the 2006 Smart 21 and Top 7 cities are early adopters and have a wireless strategy as part of the transformation of their communities… Great cities seize the opportunity to be early adopters of new technologies. • To enhance competitive and locational advantages. • To empower residents, workers and employers. • To maximize the human potential of its people.

4. What is an Intelligent Community? • Intelligent Communities – • Recognize the impact of broadband and its role as an essential utility for job creation and economic growth in the new BROADBAND ECONOMY • Work to create a culture of use among citizens, businesses and government to stimulate economic development and political participation • Ensure that low-income and at-risk populations can all participatein the broadband economy • Transformation at every level of live, work and play • Wireless infrastructure ande-government efficiencies can lead to civic transformation – smart meters; e-government services, e-procurement, etc can also lead to public WIFI coverage

5. Wireless infrastructure ande-government efficiencies can lead to civic transformation • Smart meters; e-government services, e-procurement, etc. can also lead to public WIFI coverage: • Water, Electric, and Sanitation billing – smart meters • Accounting, budgeting, and financial management for all government services • Centralized purchasing, receiving, and invoice tracking, on line and in real time. • Real time inventory management and interactive voter registration. • License processing, birth, marriages and death certificates. • Consolidated Computer Aided Dispatch for Police, Fire, Security & Ambulance • Consolidated Criminal Investigation files for all local law enforcement agencies. • Computerized central booking management and Municipal Court operations. • Transportation, parking and transit logistics management (smart cars, handicapped) • Mobile Health Services coordination, records, testing and videoconferencing • Internal and external email and Internet information interchange. • Planning and Development approvals and variances coordination • Land management, transfers and mobile GIS • Tourism and Investment attraction promotion • Internet Service Provider (ISP) available to all citizens • Comprehensive worldwide website connecting public, to government, & to the world.

6. Toronto (TOP 7 2005) Wireless Initiatives Toronto Hydro Telecom - city-owned WIFI Mesh blankets city core by end of June, 2006 • Toronto Wi-Fi zone to cover 10 square kilometres will be the largest in the country • Good example where wireless and e-government efficiencies can lead to civic transformation • – started with smart meters; e-government services, e-procurement, etc but also public WIFI coverage • From the end of June until Dec. 31, 2006, customers will be able to access Toronto Hydro WiFi for free • After that, Toronto Hydro Telecom will offer the service at “competitive rates”(TBD)

7. SMART 21 COMMUNITIES (2006) • Dubai • Cluster - Software Development, Business Services, Web Based and e-Commerce, Consultancy, Sales and Marketing and Back Office.  • Expanded access to its e-Government system • Citizens interact with all 64 government offices without having to use a dial-up or broadband-connected computer system. • e-Government solution was based on J2EE, but the J2EE-based solutions for mobile access were expensive and relatively unproven. • Microsoft .NET–connected mobility applications. • Ducont demonstrated not only that these powerful applications could reliably interact with and extend the e-Government solution to all the citizens of Dubai, but also that the government could deploy the .NET-connected solution faster and at half the cost of the unproven J2EE-based alternatives.

8. SMART 21 COMMUNITIES (2006) • Evora– Portugal- City Council and the University use digital technologies to leverage traditional strengths in tourism and food production. (pop. 56,500) FIVE axes of the new strategy for sustainability and internationalization: 1- World Heritage (World Tourist Projection, Cultural International Reference); 2- University City/Knowledge City (Kognopolis pioneer project; Wifi e-U VirtualCampus); 3- City Opened to Innovation (development of new niche specialization and clusters); 4- City of Solidarity (attention to older people; continuity of the urban planning; social residence); 5-City of Mobility and Intelligent Citizenship – (City Portal with more than 300 firms and organizations as members, with free web services, email and FTP) . Every Online Services - SOLE; Free Internet public access since 1996; WiFi in the main area of the Historical Centre - HotEvora; MuTIC-mobile learning system for kindergartens and schools; Dream Shop - mobile broad band bus;

9. Sunderland, United Kingdom (Top 7, 2005) • E-Government Team implemented“peoplefirst” • Aim - to adopt technology-based approaches to delivering efficient government services. • Equipping front- line staff with wireless PDAs to check records and order services while engaged with citizens • Identifying and training “Community e-Champions” • Unrelenting commitment to control Sunderland’s economic and social destiny led to – • Over 12,000 new jobs in technology-driven businesses • Reduction of unemployment rate from 30% to 4% • +50% reduction of long-term unemployed since 2000 • “Beacon Status for Social Inclusion” award from UK’s Local Government Association • Ranked one of top five most competitive business locations in UK by KPMG