The Australia-Vietnam Smart Cities Business Forum 2025 took place on May 8 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City.
Organised by the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), the forum convened representatives from government agencies, businesses, academic institutions, and organisations from Australia and Vietnam.
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All tiers of governments around the developed world are embracing the smart city concept.
Digital technology is increasingly being harnessed to manage and optimise municipal services such as transportation, energy usage, waste disposal, and public safety.
But the smart city concept is anything but shiny and new. Its genesis can be traced back to the 1960s with the introduction of computerised traffic management systems. The groundwork for the smart city concept was laid further as technology evolved through the seventies to the nineties.
From AI chatbots to uplifting its staff experience.
Located in the Northwest of Tasmania, Devonport City Council’s transformation project, ‘Living City’ is one of the largest urban renewal projects undertaken in the state and has seen a multitude of work undertaken including AI chatbots to uplift its staff experience.
Jeffrey Griffith, deputy general manager at the council, told Digital Nation its modernisation work, which kicked off around 2018, has reshaped the way council operates.
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But you still can’t use a credit card to tap on public transport there.
Extensive investment in digital healthcare, transport, monitoring and other infrastructure has made Melbourne one of the world’s most digitally dependent cities, a new analysis has found even as Victoria’s government deals with yet another problem with its Myki digital ticketing system.
Melbourne ranked 12th in the ZeroBounce ranking, which scores cities based on nine digital infrastructure categories that includes internet speed, public Wi-Fi availability, online maintenance reporting systems, CCTV coverage, smart parking solutions and pollution monitoring.
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Athol Road Primary School had a blast at its school expo celebrating its students’ part in a Smart City project.
Grade 3 to 6 students were both nervous and excited to introduce their creation to others during the expo after learning how to use micro:bits to explore electronics, automation and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Using their experience in the previous terms, students created smart homes, urban farms, restaurants, zoos, aquariums and much more using recycled items such as egg cartons.
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