The Urban Development Ministry has set up ‘SmartNet’, a platform to support the development of smart cities across India aiming to share and disseminate information among stake holders including city managers, academia, researchers and technologists for better urban development.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to launch the SmartNet on the first anniversary of the Smart City Mission on June 24, said a senior official from the UD Ministry.
SmartNet will be a user-friendly and immersive platform. Users will record their preferences at the time of registration and the content that is seen by each user will be driven by their preferences and needs. The demand-driven content will be enabled through an intelligent query based system for retrieval of information, he added.
“The practitioners would also be able to form smaller communities of practice on specific subjects or common interests, such that SmartNet eventually becomes the primary and preferred mechanism for knowledge sharing between the smart cities,the AMRUT cities, the HRIDAY cities and the cities implementing Swacch Bharat Abhiyan and the Housing for All mission,” the official said.
AMRUT( Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) and HRIDAY (Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana are the Governments flagship scheme aiming to ensure better urban facilities in the cities selected under the schemes.
The platform is intended to become the primary portal for government to government (G-to-G) and government to business (G-to-B) and business to government (B-to-G) linkages for the urban sector in the country.
It will encourage more transparent and structured interactions between cities, businesses and institutions by providing smart city analytics, geo-tagging of projects and sharing city level information about key indicators and spatial data.