The Philippine Smarter Cities Initiative: Building Smarter Cities Towards a Smarter Philippines

2013 International Conference

on Smarter Cities

Nov. 14-15, 2013

Diamond Hotel, Pasay City

Alejandro P. Melchor III Smarter Philippines Program Director

Department of Science & Technology

Keynote Address (Extended Ver.)

Smarter Philippines

DOST Secretary Mario Montejo

Launches Smarter Philippines

Program in Davao City

Smarter Philippines is the DOST’s technology-based

inclusive development program.

It has 6 components, which

synergize to yield:

• improved competitiveness,

• increased productivity, and

• a better quality of life.

“Smarter Cities plus Smarter Countryside equals a progressive Smarter Philippines. It is a technology-based development model that recognizes secondary cities as drivers of growth not only within its area, but also in its surrounding countryside. Kung mangyari ipo ito sa lahat ng siyudad ng Pilipinas, this could be a new approach for inclusive and sustainable growth, for poverty alleviation.” - Sec. Mario G. Montejo

A Smarter City has these key elements

• It constantly assesses how it performs in key areas:

governance, the economy, the environment, citizen mobility,

human resource development, and quality of life;

• It denotes an instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent

city.

• It strives to make itself “smarter”: more efficient, more

innovative, more sustainable, more participative and

equitable, and more livable: via strategic use of the

convergent technologies enabled by ICT.

DOST Secretary Mario Montejo Keynote address during the launch of

Smarter Philippines, Feb. 20, 2013

DOST FOCUS AREA #1:

HELPING MAKE THE CITY’S CORE SYSTEMS SMARTER

Land Use and

Urban Planning

Disaster Risk

Reduction Mgmt.

Jobs/ Business

Environment

Education Services

Agricultural System

Telecommunication

and ICT Infra.

Healthcare Services

Transportation

System

Public Safety

Instrumented

Integrated data

including sensors,

video and voice

Interconnected Networked

intelligence

Knowledge sharing

Outsourcing

Work collaboration

Intelligent Proactive, preventive,

predictive use of

information

Analytics

Visualization

SMARTER SYSTEMS ENABLE LGUs TO:

Leverage information to make better decisions

Anticipate problems to resolve them proactively

Coordinate resources to operate effectively

Smarter Urban Planning & Land Use Planning

DOST DREAM Plane w/ 3D LIDAR Rendered 3D LIDAR Map

3D LIDAR mapping

with Data

Management and

Geographic

Information Systems

(GIS) can deliver key

information for

Smarter Urban &

Land Use Planning

The DOST’s DREAM 3D

LIDAR Mapping data can be

utilized for the SMARTER

PHILIPPINES urban

planning, land use planning

and geospatial analysis

programs of Smarter Cities

member local government

agencies.

Import and visualize flood

modelling surfaces to help with

Disaster Risk Assessment

and mitigation planning

Crime mapping will enable law

enforcement to identify crime hot

spots and allocate scarce resources

such as patrol cars optimally.

Smarter Land Use Planning,

enabled by high-resolution

terrain, geochemical or

geophysical surface models

Smarter Urban Planning & Land Use Planning

Flood zone analysis. Relate

elevation from a terrain model to

a set of households or buildings

to understand risks from flooding

Smarter Urban Planning & Land Use Planning

Hydrological Dataset for the

entire Philippines

Flood simulation models for flood control

Hydrological Datasets will help determine

a city’s drainage capacity

China built a Technology Operations Center in

Beijing in preparation to host the 2008 Olympics

UK built a Technology Operations Center in London

in preparation to host the 2012 Olympics

Brazil built an Intelligent Operations Center in Rio

de Janeiro in preparation to host the 2014 World

Cup and the 2015 Summer Olympics

The Intelligent Operations Center helps make multiple core systems smarter. It is

a priority of countries preparing to host major global events like the Olympics

Mitigating torrential rains and flooding is one of the

focuses of Rio’s IOC.

Smarter Disaster Risk Reduction Management & Climate Change Adaptation

DREAM 3D LIDAR Mapping for Flood Control

CITIES TO BE COVERED BY DREAM:

As of Sept. 16, 2013: 34 of 58 cities have been surveyed by 3D LIDAR

Philippine National Earthquake & Tsunami Monitoring &

Communication System: I. Earthquake Monitoring & EWS

DOST-PHIVOLCS Main Station, Quezon City

Philippine Seismic Network: 69

stations now; target: 85 by 2016

Earthquake monitoring Broadband/ strong-motion station

Smart sensors for earthquake monitoring

Installation of smart sensors at

Mandaluyong City LGU

Philippine National Earthquake & Tsunami Monitoring &

Communication System: II. Tsunami Early Warning System

Tsunami hazard mapping for Metro Manila Tsunami Inundation simulation Tsunami scenario database

Sea-level detection sensors Corregidor Tidal Gauge Station

Intelligent DRRM Systems:

High Peformance Computing & Analytics

IBM donated a Blue Gene/P super

computer to DOST.

- 4,096-core super computer

- To be housed at DOST’s iGov

Data Center

The NOAH-Wise Project: Weather Information Integration for System Enhancement

Improved weather forecasting will improve flood prediction

EXPECTED OUTCOMES:

• Improved weather forecasting

• NOAH’s weather forecast extended from 6

hours to 7 days

• Larger area coverage to monitor weather

disturbances forming out at sea

• Faster computing time will result in hourly

7-day forecasts

• More weather parameters will be produced

for public information

• Improved flood prediction

Smarter DRRM: Knowledge Sharing--

Best Practices & Lessons Learned

Tonga: 2009 7.9 magnitude earthquake & tsunami

2011 Great Japan Earthquake & Tsunami Thailand: The Great Flood of 2011

Japan: Lessons learned from 2011 Great Earthquake and Tsunami:

Multi-tier disaster information communication system

Thailand: lessons learned from the Great Floods

of 2011: shift to satellite/ space technology

Satellite Data Terminal Broadband satellite

Satellite drought mapping & flood early

warning system

Satellite-based GIS hazard maps

Project NOAH Website. Ondoy floodmap for Butuan City.

Key DOST Websites: NOAH, PAGASA, PHIVOLCS

Smarter Industries: 1.3M IT-BPM Jobs by 2016,

520,000 of which are in the countryside

Smarter Industries: Towards a P50M/yr.

Semiconductor & Electronics industry

Advanced Device Materials and

Testing Laboratory (ADMATEL)—

designed to enhance the productivity of

the semiconductor and electronics

industry by providing world-class testing

facilities at affordable prices.

• Eliminates the need to send products

abroad for testing, thus enabling higher

value added—from 10% to 20-40%.

Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer

Focused Ion Beam—Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

Auger Electron Spectrometer

2014 Priorities: • Philippine Health Information

Exchange (PHIE)

• Philippine Health Enterprise Data Warehouse

• Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS)

• Hospital Management Information Systems (HOMIS)

• eHealth apps for tele-parasitology & tele-dermatology

• Telemedicine services: +450 rural barangays

• RxBox2 +150 barangays

Smarter Healthcare: the Philippine

eHealth Development Plan 2013-2017

Smarter Healthcare: the RxBox

- Electronic Medical Record

- Graphical User Interface

- Vital Signs Sensors

- Heart Rate

- ECG

- Blood Oxygen Saturation

- Fetal Heart Tones

- Maternal Uterine Contraction

Helps Doctors to provide better

health care to patients in Rural

Communities

Adopt RxBox

Contact us at:

rxbox@telehealth.ph

www. Telehealth.ph

admin@info.telehealth.ph

+63-2-509-1003

Smarter Healthcare: Conquering Dengue

Dengue Prevention through Public Awareness. The rainy season of each year marks the beginning of a DOH-led anti-dengue public awareness campaign.

Dengue Rapid Test Kit. Inexpensive test kit for

dengue yields diagnostic results within 1 hour.

R&D on medicinal properties of local plants for

a national anti-dengue vaccine by 2014 and cure

for dengue haemorrhagic fever.

The DOST-DOH Dep Ed OL Trap Program: Dengue prevention through biological control. DOST-produced OL (ovicidal-larvicidal) traps are placed in different areas of participating schools and serviced every 6 days by volunteers. The OL Traps contain a larvicidal solution which emits an odor that attract Aedes mosquitos to lay their eggs in them. The solution then kills the eggs and larvae.

National online dengue early warning system. The red balloons indicate schools with OL Trap indices of >40%. Local authorities in these areas are alerted to undertake an all-out anti-dengue campaign. Coming soon!

Smarter Healthcare: Key Websites

Smarter Telecommunications and

ICT Infrastructure: TV White Spaces

TV White Spaces Initiative

Aims to bring broadband-enabled

services to rural areas DOST’s ICT Office partners with USAID and

Microsoft Philippines to enable the Department of

Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic

Resources to provide government services to

remote fishing communities in Bohol through the

TV White Spaces Program.

Smarter Transportation Systems

Automated Guideway Transit System (AGT).

Driverless electricity-run monorail

DOST Road Train.

Smarter Traffic Management System with cellphone-

based People Flow Mobility Data

LEAP (Learning English Application for

Pinoys) is a standalone application for

Windows- and Linux-based platforms for

learning basic English.

Goals Improve Basic English

Proficiency of Filipinos

Help improve and sustain

competitiveness in the Global

Market

Smarter People: LEAP and GCAT

eGovernance Training for Smarter Cities

5 Core Competencies to be developed in gCIOs:

gCIO Training for LGUs Empowering Government Chief Information Officers as agents of strategic

change, focused on projects that drive innovation & reform.

• Chief ICT Strategist

• Chief ICT Policy Advisor

• Chief Information Security Officer

In partnership with:

eLeadership for Local Executives Aims to develop ICT competence— a cluster of related abilities, commitments, knowledge and skills that enable local executives to act effectively

Smarter People Collaboration with DOST’s Smarter

Philippines Technology Partners (*under discussion)

IT-certified faculty

capable of imparting 21st

century skills through

STEM curriculum

Smarter Analytics Training for Public Sector with IBM http://www.scgmis.org/Resources/Documents/Becomming%20an%20analytics-driven%20govt.pdf

*Google “Microsoft IT Academy” to download the 51-slide Powerpoint presentation http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/us-can/docs/Put-the-T-in-Your-STEM-Education-Program-with-Cisco-Networking-Academy.pdf

The optimum strategy for both sustained, high and inclusive growth and poverty alleviation is the co-development of Tier II and Tier III cities as

Smarter Cities, along with their surrounding rural communities.

Smarter MSMEs: Small Enterprise

Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP)

TECHNOLOGY UPGRADING

TECHNICAL CONSULTING TECHNOLOGY TRAININGS

PACKAGING ASSISTANCE LAB TESTING SERVICES

Smarter Farming

• Smarter Farming for a Sustainable Food Supply

• Nationwide Farm Management Information System (FMIS)

• Geographical Information System with visual data presentation of:

• Hydrologic Map

• Soil Texture Map

• Crop / Vegetative Cover Maps

• Drought Intensity Map

Farm Management

Information System

Soil Texture Map Hydrologic Map Crop Cover Map Drought Intensity Map

Smarter Farming

National Program on Weather and Crop Forecasting

will reduce vulnerability of farmers to Climate Change

Smarter Crop Forecasting System Farmer Decision Support System

Smarter Collaboration System

Secured Login Project Authoring Project Monitoring with

Progress Report On Demand

Document Upload / Download –

Repository for every Project Messaging System for Stakeholders and Team

Members

Smarter Collaboration System

Services

1. Project Monitoring (Progress Report On Demand)

2. Data Repository / File Management System

3. Discussion and Messaging Board

4. Community Integration (Social Media, Other DOST offices)

Delivered Online via

Secured Portal

DOST National Office DOST Regional Offices LGU Stakeholders

Collaboration

Transparency

Efficiency

Knowledge Management and Exchange System

Objective

Strengthen the capacity of cities to effectively manage inclusive urban

development through the implementation of a knowledge management

and exchange system among city managers and stakeholders

Addresses these challenges

1. Limited Participation and Access to Capacity Development

Programs

2. Inadequate management of knowledge resources

3. Lack of sustainable program for peer to peer knowledge exchange

among city managers

Special module: Smarter Urban

Planning & Land Use Planning

Alejandro P. Melchor III

Smarter Philippines Program Director

Department of Science & Technology

budmelchor@yahoo.com

Alejandro “Bud” Melchor