Connectivity and QoL How digital consumer habits and ubiquitous technology are driving smart city development in Asia PacificMIT Technology Review © MIT Technology Review, 2017. All Rights Reserved. 2© MIT Technology Review, 2017. All Rights Reserved. 3 Connectivity and QoL Preface Connectivity and QoL is a white paper by MIT Technology Review. It is based on research conducted between June and September 2017. Further insights were gained through in-depth interviews and are included in this report. We would like to thank all participants in this research project as well as our partner, global media and digital marketing communications leader, Dentsu Aegis Network. MIT Technology Review has collected and reported on all findings contained in this paper independently, regardless of participation or sponsorship. October 2017MIT Technology Review © MIT Technology Review, 2017. All Rights Reserved. 4 Contents 1. Asia Pacifics smart city imperative 5 2. Pervasive personalization 9 3. Cities of clouds 11 4. Smart . and sustainable 13 5. Towards a collaborative smart city economy 15 6. Livability through connectivity 17 7. Australia 19 8. China 21 9. Hong Kong 23 10. India 25 11. Japan 27 12. Singapore 29 13. South Korea 31 14. Taiwan 33Connectivity and QoL © MIT Technology Review, 2017. All Rights Reserved. 5 A sia Pacifics rapid development has been a singular success story in the global economy: the regions economies have grown at roughly twice the speed of the rest of the world for nearly a quarter-century, and over that time have seen their collective GDPs nearly triple in sizeto over US$22 trillionin that time. While Asia Pacifics growth drivers are multifaceted and difficult to generalize, they typically have involved strong coordination of government and business agendas around regional and global trade, focused investments in infrastructure, and in particular a willingness to adopt and develop leading-edge technologies. Cities, in this sense, have been at the heart of Asia Pacifics growth, serving as the catalysts for the regions thriving trade, innovation and opportunity. The United Nations Human Settlements Program, in its 2016 World Cities Report, estimates that Asias cities grew by nearly one billion people between 1995 and 2015more than all other regions in the world combined. 2.1 billion Asians live in cities, 53% of the regions population, and those numbers grow by over two million a month.Urban growth has also brought challenges fast-expanding cities have strained transportation, power and sanitation infrastructure, particularly problematic in Asia Pacifics poorer cities. Increased energy consumption, deforestation and car ownership in the region has turned Asia Pacific into the worlds largest contributors to greenhouse gas. In its 2017 report, “Trends in Global CO2 Emissions”, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency identified seven Asia Pacific countries among the worlds 10 fastest-growing in terms of increased CO2 emissions over the last 25 years, led by China and India with 355% and 272% respectively. 1. Asia Pacifics smart city imperative 468 f bbvm,6 GDP v,6-6 3 8 P vb bvm (6,m) m byM cy Rv bfm WBk, Ecmc U Connectivity and QoL - Figure 1 GDP Milne points to efforts to broadcast context-relevant ads targeted to consumers based on analysis of license plates in the streets. But the increased consumer insight advertisers derive from this enhanced connectivity comes with a quid pro quo: “Passive advertising is OK, but active ads become intrusive,” Milne finds. “Moreover, brand owners have to provide more relevant ads, along with other services.” Such services, he predicts, might include augmented-reality displays for wayfinding in the public transportation network.Sethumadhavan also sees this shift facilitating the delivery of new and enhanced public services, and empowering Asian consumers to boot, as the “fabric of the data surrounding them at all times” makes them aware of the things they need without even searching. He adds, “government-funded infrastructure lays the foundation, but in order for smart cities to blossom, the private sector must take more responsibility.”Property developers and management firms looking specifically to harness the data generated by smart city efforts are two sectors that could 2. Pervasive personalization: The value exchange between cities and consumers “Government-funded infrastructure lays the foundation, but in order for smart cities to blossom, the private sector must take more responsibility.” Arvind Sethumadhavan, Asia Pacific Chief Innovation Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network