Green Smart City Development with Citizen Participation

Basic Information

Grant ID: K-42

Region: Global

Country: Global

Approval Year: 2014

Grant Year: Year 2

Amount Approved by Donor: $800000.00

Main Product Line: ASA

Sector: Urban

Grant start/completion: August 26, 2014 – June 30, 2016

Grant Status: Closed

TTLs: Hyoung Gun Wang (Senior Economist)

Grant Activities

Project Summary:

Cities face a number of challenges to green urban development, including poor land cadaster systems (a comprehensive land ownership register), poor public services and living environments, and high unemployment and poverty-related violence. These challenges call for innovative, tested urban management solutions that promote shared prosperity and reach the poorest 40% of citizens. Following on the heels of the World Bank’s e-Government program on ICT for urban management, the KGGTF program tackles city challenges. Among its goals, the two-year USD $800,000 program will develop a national master plan to enable Tunisian authorities to access digital land information. It will also pilot ICT innovations to help authorities address urban challenges in Mumbai, India’s capital, and a city of 19 million people. The World Bank project provides examples for cities on how to overcome economic growth obstacles. Using Korean experiences from Seoul, a global leader in e-Government, the KGGTF will create a case study to help Tunisia acquire data for its cadastre system. The program will also share knowledge on Korean land management to Tunisia and other developing countries. For Mumbai, KGGTF program training workshops will demonstrate best practices to government officials. The program will also study establishment of a civil participation system (CPS) for Mumbai, including piloting CPS applications for the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, whereby Citizens will be able to submit information through mobile-phone-based surveys, hotlines, and user-generated maps. Applications will also include community mapping for urban disaster risk management.

List of Activities:

  • Developing ICT-based land information management system in order for a city to make the best use of land for inclusive green growth
  • Promoting a mobile and big data based civic participation system in order to make urban management more participatory and inclusive
  • Presenting practical examples and applications of specific how-to tools

Outcomes:

Output 1:

  • Development of the national DLMS master plan for Tunisia
  • A case study for a pilot city to find the best suitable methodology and practical recommendations for data acquisition on establishing DLMS in Tunisia
  • Capacity building and knowledge sharing activities

Output 2:

  • A background study on the Korean experiences related to establishment of CPS and its best suitable methodology for Mumbai, India (the pilot city)
  • Development and installation of pilot CPS applications for Mumbai Municipal Corporation
  • Capacity building training

Outcomes:

As an expected outcome, this project intends to develop innovative best practices for sustainable urban development and smart cities that are tailed to developing countries. Specifically, under the ICT-based land information management system, the intended outcome will be a master plan including middle and long-term road maps on establishing a Digital Land Management System (DLMS) based on Korean experience and practical policy recommendations. Under mobile and big data based civic participation system, the intended outcome will be (i) improved use of information technology in the urban management and citizen participation, and (ii) innovative approaches and solutions through mobile and big data, which can be replicated easily to resource-constrained developing country cities.

Collaboration with K-Partners and Others:

This project is part of a larger effort in partnership with the 72-member World e-Government Organization of Cities and Local Governments, Seoul Metropolitan Government, and the Korea Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.