WHAT ISA SMART CITY?1

Finite entity (district, town, city, county, municipal, and/or metropolitan area) with its own governing authority that is more local than national. This entity is built on an ICT foundation layer that allows for efficient city management, economic development, sustainability, innovation, and citizen engagement.

URBANIZATION DRIVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES2

70%2020

54%2014

30%1950

South Africa’s urbanization rate is expected

to be 77% in 2050.

INVESTMENTS BEING DONE BY SOUTH AFRICA AROUND

BECOMING SMART

World's population concentrated in urban centers.

WHERE ARE YOU ON THE MATURITY CURVE?

• An “optimized” city has a properly defined strategy that helps a city achieve its ultimate goals around sustainability, economic development, and, more importantly, higher quality of services catered towards it citizens.13

STAGE 1Ad Hoc

STAGE 2Opportunistic

STAGE 3Repeatable

STAGE 4Managed

STAGE 5Optimized

Cities need to leverage technologies such as:

ICT is a Major Enabler to becoming an Optimized Smart City

THE ULTIMATE GOAL

1 IDC Government Insights, 2015.2 United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, 2014.3 Cities of Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Ekurhuleni , 2015.4 BusinessTech, “R1.2bn Joburg broadband network ready to go live”, 14 May 2013.5 City of Durban, 2015.6 City of Capetown, 2015.7 BusinessTech, “City of Joburg wants to roll out 1,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots”, 27 May 2015. 8 Project Isizwe, 2016.9 City of Capetown, 2016. 10 ITWeb, "City Power, George Airport green initiatives hailed", 20 May 2016.11 City of Cape Town, Open Data Draft Policy, 2015.12 Universiteit van Stellenbosch, SU and partners launch Stellenbosch Innovation District project, 2015.13 IDC Government Insights, 2015.14 IDC, 2015. EMC Digital Universe, 2014.

Stage of Maturity

Economic Growth Safer & Green Environment

Source

Cloud Big DataAnalytics

Mobile Social Internetof Things

in an open platformto create an agile

Smart City.

IDC forecaststhat by2020

30 billion connected things

Revenue of US$ 1.7 trillion

for the worldwide "Internet of Things"

ecosystem

The data being generated will create a Digital Universe that is expected to be as much as 44 ZB by 2020.14

Operational Efficiency Higher Quality of Life for its Citizens

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77% in 2050

EXPANDING CITYWIDE ICT INFRASTRUCTURE

Rollout of expansive fiber optic cable networks

Optimizing Energy Usage

Boosting Innovation and Economic Development

Optimizing Energy Usage

Public WiFi AccessIn addition to investing in fibre optic cables, South African

cities are also providing free Wifi hotspots enabling residents, visitors, and businesses to gain access to free Internet

connectivity.

Johannesburg: plans to roll out 1,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots in selected areas across the city by 2016.7

Capetown: Cape Town launched 50 public free WiFi hotspots in a number of communities.The province will launch 384 hotspots in total. One hundred will be launched during the 2016-17 financial year and the remaining 234 the following year.9 

Tshwane: With Project Isizwe, the city of Tshwane has over 780 Free Wifi hotspots and the network is accessed by over 1.4 million unique devices since its inception in 2015.8

South Africa's cities are taking steps to optimize its power consumption by deploying smart meters. By giving households access to information on their power consumption, cities will be able to engage with residents to make a collective effort to sustain power accessibility.

To achieve this, cities likes Johannesburg have already begun deploying smart meters. Johannesburg has already rolled out 92,000 smart meters and is expected to deploy as many as 250,000 meters by mid-2016.10

JohannesburgGrowth and Development Strategy 2040

Tshwane

EkurhuleniVision 20553

Vision 2055

Johannesburg940km

940km fibre-optic cable roll-out in the

city4

Durban700km

Cape Town350km

The first phase of the City’s

Broadband Project has been

completed.6

Over 700km of fibre optic cable

already deployed.5

Cape Town has a draft "Open Data" policy which city officials hope will increase transparency, stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship, and help strengthen collaboration between the public and private sector.11

In the Western Province, Stellenbosch municipality has entered into a partnership with the University of Stellenbosch to establish the Stellenbosch Innovation District to attract companies and start-ups. The Stellenbosch Innovation District is a space where innovation actors connect, so as to build an inclusive and sustainable Smart economy.12

South Africa’s major metropolitan municipalities are engaging in various ‘Smart’ transformation initiatives to achieve their own respective growth and development strategies.