Smart System Innovation: The Bandung City Experience

Abstraksi

Bandung Smart System Project is one of the innovations in Bandung municipality that was supported by the Asian Development Bank. The project aims to support the local government in making strategic spatial planning decisions through better data coordination between local agencies and higher levels (provincial or national). The project tries to achieve its aim by introducing a planning support tool called ur-scape, a visual data platform that integrates various planning-related data (spatial, economic, social, environment) and performs relevant cross data analytics. The Bandung Municipality is supporting the development of smart systems project; this can be seen through the productive networking between local agencies, willingness to share data and information, and a series of a capacity building programme to improve the skill of the staff. This project involves ten agencies and, in the future, it is expected that more will also participate. Nevertheless, there are still some areas that need to be improved, namely, the coordination and the data sharing practices between the local agencies, local capacity, and data quality and infrastructures. This paper discusses the potentials and the challenges during the development and implementation of the project in Bandung municipality. It stresses on the dynamic within and among the various of local agencies, regarding the data coordination and the data capacity improvement as well as the integration of data sharing and applications into one platform that can support the ‘one map’ policy. This paper also discusses some general ideas that could be useful to Bandung municipality and other local governments.