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The document outlines the Global Centre's smart cities programme aimed at building inclusive, liveable, and sustainable urban areas through technology and innovation. With urbanisation projected to increase significantly by 2050, particularly in Africa and Asia, the programme focuses on three thematic areas: Inclusive Cities, Sustainable Cities, and Adaptable Cities, supported by key drivers such as digital infrastructure and smart governance. The initiative emphasizes a systems approach, inclusivity, and sustainability, leveraging Singapore's experience as a leading smart city.

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Smart Cities

Building and shaping inclusive, liveable, and sustainable urban areas is an essential development
priority - reflected by the Global Centre's creation of a dedicated smart cities programme. Smart
cities use technology and innovation to improve the urban environment - leading to improved
quality of life, greater prosperity and sustainability, and engaged and empowered citizens.
Singapore, home to the Global Centre, has been consistently recognised as a leading smart city.
More broadly, digitalisation is a key driver in improving lives and livelihoods.

The problem we are solving

Urbanisation is a defining trend of the 21st Century. By 2050, nearly 70% of the world's population -
an additional 2.5 billion people - will live in urban areas. Much of this increase in urbanisation will
occur in Africa and Asia. These regions will experience an increase in both 'megacities' and smaller
urban settlements - with particular urban concentration in a small number of countries: China, India,
and Nigeria. Accompanying the pace and extent of urbanisation are a number of positive and
negative trends - from increased economic opportunities, improvements in lives and livelihoods,
through to the potential for greater urban-rural disparity, lower quality-of-life, and conflict. Building
and shaping inclusive, liveable, and sustainable urban areas which are called Smart Cities, is an
essential development priority - reflected by the Global Centre's creation of a dedicated smart cities
programme.

Our key initiatives

The smart cities programme is split into two broad aspects: thematic 'city challenge' areas, and
foundational smart city 'drivers'. These two aspects are underpinned by our guiding principles of
taking a systems approach, prioritising inclusivity and sustainability, focusing on being practical and
outcomes-focused; and building on the multi-decade partnership between UNDP and the
government, and people, of Singapore. This includes drawing on the unique accomplishments of
Singapore in becoming a globally-recognised smart city.

Thematic areas

Drawing on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and the six UNDP 'signature solution' areas, the
Global Centre's smart city programme centres around three thematic areas:

Inclusive Cities: Cities are the closest administration to citizens and have real potential to create
inclusive societies. Innovation can facilitate equal access to public services, empower citizens, and
increase security and safety.

Sustainable Cities: Cities need to use their limited resources in the most efficient way - ensuring that
they are smartly distributed and avoiding waste.

Adaptable Cities: Cities need to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, including air
pollution, implementing sustainable mobility systems, and increasing their resilience to face these
and other challenges.

Smart city 'drivers'

Creating the urban settlements of the future demands a fundamental and wholesale shift in the role
of technology and innovation in an urban context, as well as the need to engage with the new ways
of thinking, working, and governing that these developments will require. These drivers are: digital
infrastructure, data management and analysis, smart city governance, and financing and innovative
partnerships. These two aspects are underpinned by our guiding principles of taking a systems
approach, prioritising inclusivity and sustainability, focusing on being practical and outcomes-
focused; and building on the multi-decade partnership between UNDP and the government, and
people, of Singapore. This includes drawing on the unique accomplishments of Singapore in
becoming a globally-recognised smart city.

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