FAQ
- Using technology to support the design, delivery and assessment of services
- Using data to support and improve policies, programs and decision-making that is replicable and sustainable
- Sharing information with you, our community to continue greater transparency and accessibility of information
What is a Smart Community/City?
A smart community/city uses technology and data to drive economic activity, accelerate innovation and better manage energy, resources and services. Most importantly, smart cities are people focused.
What are the Smart Goals?
Smart Community | Our Smart Community is informed and engaged. To ensure our community are at the center of using technology, digital skills and tools must be accessible to all to progress our six themes of being liveable, connected, engaged, prosperous, innovative and valuing nature.
Smart Places | Smart Places are the neighbourhoods we live, work and learn in, parks and facilities we gather in and places we recreate in. They harness information, technology and infrastructure to support our community to flourish. •
Smart Organisation | Being a Smart Organisation ensures we put our customers first. We use technology to create inclusive ways for people to interact with us and continuously look for innovative ways to provide services to our community.
What are the Smart Principles?
People | We have a people-centered approach to being smart. This ensures we remain focused on improving our residents’ and visitors’ quality of life.
Problems | We advance innovation and sustainability with a problem-focused lens, addressing real community issues and opportunities that we see and hear about from our community.
Fast followers | To maximize value for money, where possible and appropriate we will experiment, learn and scale following others who gone before.
Collaborate | We are wise with more minds, through experience, sharing of resources, and funding. We value partnerships with government, businesses, community and researchers to collaboratively solve problems and identify opportunities.
Inclusive | We seek to bridge the digital divide in our community, to provide options and support for interacting with us as an organisation.
Meaningful | With the growing availability of data and information, we will ensure we use this important asset in a meaningful way to improve services and inform decision making.
Privacy, Security and Integrity | Technology offers exciting opportunities to enhance transparency and accountability. Working with experts we will maintain the security and integrity of the information and privacy of our community.
What does Innovation look like for the City of Marion?
Innovation is at the core of the City of Marion, aligned to our purpose 'To improve our residents’ quality of life; continuously, smartly and efficiently.'
Community Vision - Towards 2040:
Our vision is by 2040 our city will be a leader in embracing and developing new ideas and technology to create a vibrant community with opportunities for all.
Innovation is one of our four organisational values: Innovation - Encouraging new ideas, and learning from our experience to do things better. Innovative is one of the six Community Vision themes, which is embedded in all of our Strategic Planning, and the projects and services we deliver to our Community.
Check out some of the Innovative things happening across the City of Marion on our website.
What is the Oaklands Smart Precinct?
The City of Marion has been successful in matched funding for a “Smart Precinct Proposal” at Oaklands through the Federal Smart Cities and Suburbs Program Round 2. The Australian Government funding will support the smart precinct proposal that will provide innovative solutions using technology and data that will identify opportunities for service delivery efficiencies that can be scaled and replicated in other precincts.
Through key infrastructure elements of the precinct, the design of the public realm we will seek to improve the experience of the local community and visitors’ through increased connectivity and liveability.
For more information visit the page Oaklands Smart Precinct page on the City of Marion website.
Background
The City of Marion has committed to Innovation. This includes deploying technology and using data to solve community-based problems where economic, social and environmental benefits can be realised, as well as data-driven decision making.
Key opportunities identified include but are not limited to