IDC Asia/Pacific opens submissions for Smart City Asia Pacific Awards

Source: IDC. Poster for SCAPA.

IDC Government Insights Asia Pacific has launched this year’s search for the top smart city initiatives across Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ). IDC’s Smart City Asia Pacific Awards (SCAPA), now on its third year, will recognise deserving government agencies, private or public organisations that IDC deemed to have stood above other projects or initiatives in 14 smart city functional e-service categories using IDC’s Smart City Development Index framework.

This framework is a six-step process that involves input from various stakeholders – from the public, IDC Analyst assessment and the International Advisory Council, and will be used to determine this year’s winners. The process kicks off with open nomination to give the public sector, solution providers and the public the opportunity to nominate the Smart City projects that have made the most impact on their citizen experience.

"The Smart City Asia Pacific Awards were created to identify, benchmark and publicly vote on the best projects each year across 14 functional smart city strategic domains. This is an intensive six-month process that tracks and evaluates hundreds of smart city initiatives in Asia Pacific," states Gerald Wang, Head, Asia Pacific Government, IDC Government Insights. "For the last few years, IDC's trademarked and custom framework has helped numerous Asia Pacific city leaders understand and transform their smart city strategies and create innovative e-services. Awarded projects are winners that have withstood the true testament of rigorous global benchmarking and public scrutiny/"

Award categories are:

Administration;
Connected Health;
Economic Development;
Education;
Land Use and Environmental Management;
Permitting, Licensing, Inspection and Zoning;
Public Safety;
Public Works;
Smart Buildings;
Smart Grid;
Smart Water;
Social Services.
Tourism, Arts, Libraries, Culture, Open Spaces; and
Transportation;

Twenty-eight projects have been awarded by IDC in the past two years.

Interested?

Download the nomination form. Submissions to idcap_smartcity at idc.com should be received by 10 April 2017 5pm Singapore time.

All shortlisted smart city projects for the public voting phase of SCAPA 2017 will be announced in early May 2017 via the IDC Smart City Website , Smart City Facebook Page, and IDC AP Twitter.

Learn more about the smart city and the Smart City Development Index (registration required)