Office of the Government Chief Information OfficerThe Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Office of the Government Chief Information OfficerThe Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

The Concepts and Initiatives of Smart City

3 January 2020

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What is Smart City?

Smart city is the wide application of modern technologies such as Internet of

Things (IoT)/sensors, cloud computing, mobile technology, open data and big

data analytics, etc. to develop intelligent systems in city planning, construction

and management, with the objectives to:

achieve better allocation of resources

facilitate sustainable development

enable better managed city operations

for the benefits & quality living of

citizens

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Boyd Cohen: Smart City Wheel & Six Areas

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Smart Economy – advocates innovation and entrepreneurship,

focusing on developing new and emerging

technologies and encouraging innovation

Smart Mobility – enhances efficiency and service quality of

urban transport systems and infrastructure

Smart Government – strengthens the communication within the

Government, connection between the

Government and the people/enterprises to

enhance the Government’s accountability,

responsiveness and transparency

Smart

City

Smart

Economy

Smart

Mobility

Smart

Govern-

ment

Smart

Enviro

Smart

People

Smart

Living

Boyd Cohen: Smart City Wheel & Six Areas

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Smart

City

Smart

Economy

Smart

Mobility

Smart

Govern-

ment

Smart

Environ-

ment

Smart

People

Smart

Living

Smart Environment – promotes green and sustainable urban planning,

effective management and optimisation of urban

resources to achieve energy saving and emission

reduction

Smart People – engages human resources conducive to the

development of innovation and information

technologies, through promotion of social diversity,

open-mindedness and creativity, and participation in

public affairs

Smart Living – improves people’s living environment and quality of

life to promote a healthy, happy and vibrant lifestyle

Boyd Cohen: Smart City Wheel & Six Areas

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Seoul

Vienna

BarcelonaPursue actively integrated

town planning and

extensive use of

information and green

technologies

Achieve growth with

reduced resources

consumption whilst

improving quality of life

through innovation

Combine the

technologies and

infrastructure and the

city’s accumulated

administrative data to

create a new growth

engine and provide new

services

Global Smart City Development

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Singapore

London

New York

• Data.London.gov.hk provides

over 700 datasets to help citizens

understand the city and develop

solutions

• Foster the development of

services that find novel ways to

make use of the information

• Build a well-connected city by

developing and engaging

information and communications

industry

• Data.gov.sg is the government's

one-stop portal with over 100 apps

created using the data

• Open Data is an invitation for

anyone, anytime, anywhere to

engage with New York City

• Open Data Plan for strengthening

connections between City data

and New Yorkers

Global Smart City Development

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Smart City Blueprint for Hong Kong

• Consultancy study completed in

June 2017

• Blueprint published in December

2017

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Vision

• Embrace innovation and technology to build a world-famed Smart Hong

Kong characterised by a strong economy and high quality of living

Policy Objectives

• Enhance the effectiveness of city management and improve people’s

quality of living

• Enhance Hong Kong’s attractiveness to global businesses and talents

• Inspire continuous city innovation and sustainable economic

development

Smart City Vision and Objectives

Smart City Blueprint

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Six Major

Areas

> 70

Initiatives

Smart

Mobility

Smart

Living

Smart

Government

Smart

People

Smart

EconomySmart

Environment

Smart City Development Plans – Six Areas

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Smart City Development

in Hong Kong

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Infrastructures

• Multi-functional Smart

Lampposts Pilot Scheme

• 5G

• Wi-Fi.HK

• iAM Smart

• Next Generation

Government Cloud

Infrastructure Services

• Big Data Analytics Platform

• Common Spatial Data

Infrastructure (CSDI)

5G

Spatial

Data

Gov’t

Cloud

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• Launched 50 smart

lampposts in Kwun

Tong and Kai Tak

Development Area

• Established Technical

Advisory Ad Hoc Committee

to examine personal privacy

protection technologies and

measures

• Set up Smart Lampposts

Thematic Webpage to

provide comprehensive

information to the public

• Released smart lampposts

locations and functions,

and data collected as Open

Data

Multi-functional Smart Lampposts Pilot Scheme

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• OFCA assigned spectrum in the

26 GHz, 28 GHz bands and

auctioned spectrum in the 3.3, 3.5

GHz and 4.9 GHz bands last year

• Opening up suitable government

premises for operators to install

5G base stations

• Using smart lampposts for

installing 5G base stations

Assignment

Of New

Spectrum

Network

Rollout

Network

Rollout

5G Mobile Services

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Wi-Fi.HK

“Wi-Fi.HK” website and app to facilitate

the public and visitors

Aug2014

Jan2015

Feb2016

Aug2017

Aug2018

Dec2019

5,000

12,100

17,400 19,800

23,000

36,000

No. of Wi-Fi Hotspots continues to increase

Concerted efforts of the industry, public and

private sectors and the Government

Free of charge under a common

brand ”Wi-Fi.HK”

A key digital infrastructure for smart city developmentand digital government transformation

Registration

• Smart phones

• Kiosks

• Service counters

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Login

with iAM

Smart

• access to digital government services

• application / form submission

• licence renewal

• enquiry and complaint

• personalised information / notifications

• ……

e-Government services

iAM Smart Platform

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• e-Banking

• e-Commerce

• Integrated e-Business

• e-Services of Public

Organisations

eID Launch

Mid-2020Public and Private Organisations

Q3 2018 Issue

Tender

Q2 2019 System Design

Q3 2019

API Ready

Q4 2020

Launch

iAM Smart Platform

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• Leverages on both private cloud & public

clouds

• New development technologies

(containers, DevOps) for supporting the

next generation of e-government services

• API gateway to facilitate the

implementation and reuse of common

services

Government Cloud

Next Generation Government Cloud Infrastructure Services (GCIS)

Launch in Q3 2020

GCIS

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Big Data Analytics Platform

.

Common Reusable Modules

for Data Analytics

Computing Resources & Tools

Available Now

Digital Highway

Data Science Advisory Service

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110101

Data Science Advisory

Data Analytics Team to

provide data science

advisory serviceCleansing & Modeling

Visualisation

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• Launched GeoData Store in December 2018

• Foundation for the development of CSDI

• Full rollout by 2022

• Real-time geospatical information including

weather, traffic, air and beach water quality, etc.

Spatial Data & Common Spatial Data Infrastructure

Common Spatial Data Infrastructure (CSDI)

dimension

>80%

data has a

SPATIAL

Environmental Data

New CSDI Portal

Data have to be

• standardised

• geo-tagged

• inter-operable

• discoverable• sharable

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Open Data

• Open Data Policy and Measures

• Current Status of Open Data

• Examples of Open Data

• City Dashboard

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Open Data Policy and Measures

Bureaux/Departments should as a matter of principle endeavour to release their data for free public use on the Public Sector

Information Portal, unless there are justifiable reasons such as involvement of personal privacy.

• Data for free use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes

• Encourage public / private organisations to open up data of high public interest

• Machine-readable formats (JSON, XML, CSV)

• Retain historical data

• Launch more geospatial data

• Provide more Application Programming Interfaces

• Timely update of data

• Data annotated with appropriate descriptions to facilitate searching

• Dedicated feedback channel

Policy

Measures

2019 Total 20%700+

datasets

2020

2021

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Smart Mobility with Open Data

Design

Thinking

Geospatial

Data10 Million

Weekly Downloads

18Categories

101Data Providers

4 000Datasets

1 340APIs

Historical

Data

Current Status of Open Data

Real-timeEstimated

Arrival Time

Annual Open Data Plan

Open Data Policy

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Examples of Open Data

Public Transport Data

• real-time arrival data from

transport operators (MTR & 3 bus

companies)

• disseminated via “HKeMobility” &

data.gov.hk

• installed at bus

stops & public

transport

interchanges

• provide real-time arrival

data

• facilitate fleet

managementReal-time arrival

information display panels

• air quality health

index

• marine & river water

quality data

Environmental data

Green minibus real-time

arrival data

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Examples of Open Data

Open Data Policy

Road Network

Parking

Electric Vehicle

Charging Stations

Traffic Flow

and News

Road Works

ETA of Public

Transportation

Facilitate general public to visualise open data

Stimulate Data Providers & Public to brainstorm for

opening up more data

Stimulate Industry & Public to develop more Smart City related Innovation

Showcase the Use of Open Data

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City Dashboard

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City Dashboard

Traffic & Transport

Environment & Weather

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Smart technologies and services

• Faster Payment System

• Common QR Code

• Blockchain

• Building Information Modelling

• Government Chatbot Services

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Faster Payment System

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$

$

$ $

$

• Faster payment system launched in

September 2018

real-time fund transfer

support the use of mobile phone number and

email address for payment

currency: HKD and RMB

• Single common QR code standard for

accepting different payment schemes

HKMA’s Smart Banking initiatives:

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Department of Health

Compilation of Draft Environmental Impact Assessment Reports

Environmental Protection Department

Traceability of Pharmaceutical Products

Transfer of Trademark Ownership

Intellectual Property Department

Blockchain

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Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Common digital engineering tool

• carry out design and construction works in a virtual

environment

• adopt BIM in major government capital works

• require consultants to use BIM techology

• provide funding to support local industry’s transformation

• integrate BIM data with 3D Spatial data

• create BIM friendly data environment to facilitate work

and development

• Set up BIM data repository

• support geospatial data sharing platform and 3D maps

of the whole territory

Government Chatbot Services

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Assist citizens through textual dialogue interactively

Support a mix of Chinese, English, colloquial Cantonese

Facilitate direct access to forms available online

Chatbot Service

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• High-level inter-departmental steering

committee

• Chaired by Chief Executive with most

Principal Officials as members

• Provide steer to I&T development and

smart city initiatives

• Allocate resources and monitor progress

Steering Committee on Innovation and Technology

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Industry Collaboration

Utility Network

and Utilisation

TelecommunicationsBuilding Plans

People

Education

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Smart Government Innovation Lab

Government

Departments• New Government Pro-innovation procurement

policy more emphasis on technical than price

a certain percentage of technical marks allocated

to innovative suggestions

• Smart Lab as an Innovation Facilitator to

help B/Ds formulate innovative IT

measures more effectively to improve

public services

create more business opportunities for

local start-ups and SMEs

AdoptionProof-of-Concept

Solution Matching

Engage-ment

Conduct proof-of-concept and technology testing

Invite the industry to

propose innovative

IT products and solutions

Gather business needs of public services delivery

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Industry Support

• Encouraging Local R&D Activities – Tax Deduction

• Science Park and Cyberport Expansions

• Postdoctoral Hub Programme

• Re-industrialisation and Technology Training Programme

• Social Innovation Fund

Tax

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Promoting I&T

• Internet Economy Summit

• Hong Kong ICT Awards 2020

• International ICT Expo 2020

• City I&T Grand Challenge

City I&T Grand Challenge

15-16‧4‧2020

International ICT Expo

13-16‧4‧2020

13-16‧4‧2020

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Smart City Blueprint 2.0

• Release Smart City Blueprint 2.0 for Hong Kong in 2020

• Revamp Smart City Portal with progress update, new initiatives, and city dashboards

Smart People Smart Government Smart Economy

Smart LivingSmart Mobility Smart Environment

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