Smart Community Strategic Plan

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Consultation has concluded

Council recently endorsed the draft Smart Community Strategic Plan for consultation. We invite you to tell us what you think.

The Smart Community (CoM) Strategic Plan aligns to our Organisational purpose and strategic community vision theme innovative, '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.'

As collaborate is a key principle we would like to hear your thoughts, ideas and concerns. We invite you to tell us what you think. Here you can:

Background Information

We believe a smart community uses technology and data to drive economic activity, accelerate innovation and better manage energy, resources and services. Most importantly, a smart community is people-focused.

The draft Smart Community Strategic Plan sets the agenda for the City of Marion for the next three years. It outlines a set of initiatives, aligned to the three key goals, and foundational principles aimed to accelerate transformation to achieve our Innovative Community Vision.

The plan articulates we take a problem-centered approach to our technology and data applications, identifying solutions that will improve efficiencies and service delivery through using data in a meaningful way to inform data-driven decision making.

The draft Smart Community Strategic Plan outlines a set of initiatives for exploration against the prioritised Four Year Business Plan projects and our strategic objectives to be delivered over the next three years. Council will be presented with specific business cases aligned to the to the seven foundational principles and three smart goals aimed to accelerate transformation to achieve our innovative community vision in August 2020.

Smart Foundational Principles:
People • Problems • Fast Followers • Collaborate • Inclusive • Meaningful • Privacy, Security and Integrity

Smart Goals:
Smart Community | Smart Places | Smart Organisation

Measuring success: The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a global framework to measure our success for our Smart CoM Strategic Plan. Mature Smart Cities are seeing examples of triple bottom line returns contributing to the social economic and environmental wellbeing of communities. Both of these approaches are outlined within the draft Smart Community Strategic Plan.

As demonstrated within the draft strategic plan, community-based outcomes are the foundation of our draft Smart Community Strategic Plan approach to enable sustainable transformation now and into the future.


Council recently endorsed the draft Smart Community Strategic Plan for consultation. We invite you to tell us what you think.

The Smart Community (CoM) Strategic Plan aligns to our Organisational purpose and strategic community vision theme innovative, '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.'

As collaborate is a key principle we would like to hear your thoughts, ideas and concerns. We invite you to tell us what you think. Here you can:

Background Information

We believe a smart community uses technology and data to drive economic activity, accelerate innovation and better manage energy, resources and services. Most importantly, a smart community is people-focused.

The draft Smart Community Strategic Plan sets the agenda for the City of Marion for the next three years. It outlines a set of initiatives, aligned to the three key goals, and foundational principles aimed to accelerate transformation to achieve our Innovative Community Vision.

The plan articulates we take a problem-centered approach to our technology and data applications, identifying solutions that will improve efficiencies and service delivery through using data in a meaningful way to inform data-driven decision making.

The draft Smart Community Strategic Plan outlines a set of initiatives for exploration against the prioritised Four Year Business Plan projects and our strategic objectives to be delivered over the next three years. Council will be presented with specific business cases aligned to the to the seven foundational principles and three smart goals aimed to accelerate transformation to achieve our innovative community vision in August 2020.

Smart Foundational Principles:
People • Problems • Fast Followers • Collaborate • Inclusive • Meaningful • Privacy, Security and Integrity

Smart Goals:
Smart Community | Smart Places | Smart Organisation

Measuring success: The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a global framework to measure our success for our Smart CoM Strategic Plan. Mature Smart Cities are seeing examples of triple bottom line returns contributing to the social economic and environmental wellbeing of communities. Both of these approaches are outlined within the draft Smart Community Strategic Plan.

As demonstrated within the draft strategic plan, community-based outcomes are the foundation of our draft Smart Community Strategic Plan approach to enable sustainable transformation now and into the future.