Project NOAH, the Philippines’ key disaster risk reduction and management system which was launched in 2012, has won an IDC award for the top smart city initiative in public safety at the analyst firm’s Smart City Asia Pacific awards (SCAPA).
For the awards, IDC Government Insights conducted a six-phase benchmarking exercise that involved identifying and cataloguing the key projects, online voting for public opinion, and assessment of an international advisory council.
Jubert Daniel Alberto, Country Head, IDC Philippines, said: "Project NOAH as the government’s flagship disaster management initiatives has empowered the Philippines with information such as real-time weather data and high-resolution flood, landslide, and storm surge hazard maps through online platforms, mobile devices and social media.
"Project NOAH deserves the international recognition for the public safety initiative as it succeeds in transforming cities for the better through smart and sustainable technology."
Gerald Wang, head at Asia Pacific Government and Education, noted that smart city projects are growing extensively in the Asia-Pacific region. Several countries are seeing it as an organic, middle-out and bottom-up way of growing to spearhead next-generation e-government evolutions.
Central and federal government functions provide funds for the growth of at least 90% of all smart city or local government projects, which still have the autonomy to conduct strategic operations, city governance and e-services in their own way, according to Wang.
Sudev Bangah, country manager for IDC Philippines and Indonesia, said that there are an increasing number of citizen-directed initiatives, and several projects are driving local industries. Bangah noted that the 2016 winners and submissions were focused on the impact of slowing trade and climate change.
SCAPA recognises smart city projects in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, in 14 functional e-services. For 2016, three projects each from New Zealand and Singapore won awards.
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Quelle/Source: IoT Tech News, 24.08.2016
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