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Contents

1 State of the Art of E-Democracy for Smart Cities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1T.M. Vinod Kumar

Part I E-Democracy State of the Art City Studies

2 E-Democracy for Smart City Lagos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Femi Olokesusi and Femi Ola Aiyegbajeje

3 Outline Development Plan for Feroke Municipalityin Execution Framework of Internet of People, Internetof Government and Internet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71T.M. Vinod Kumar, P. Bimal and Aruna Sri Reddi

4 E-Democracy in New Delhi Municipal Council:A Case of Smart City Planning Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Ashok Kumar

5 E-Engagement in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Sujata S. Govada, Frank Wong, Timothy Rodgers,Ho Yan Claudia Chow and Krista Busa

Part II E-Democracy Domain Studies

6 The Indian Theory of E-Democracy and E-Governanceand Its Linkages with the Smart Cities Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Ashok Kumar

7 SMART DUBAI: Accelerating Innovation and LeapfroggingE-Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197Ashmita Karmakar and Ummer Sahib

8 Smart Water Management and eDemocracy in India . . . . . . . . . . . 259Prabh Bedi and Neha Goel Tripathi

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9 Preparation of Town Planning Schemes—An E-DemocracyFramework for Citizen Centric Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281R.D. Desai, J.E.M. Macwan, Krupesh A. Chauhanand Partha Tripathy

10 Smart City Project Selection, Prioritization, Customizationand Implementation—Voice of Smart Citizens Case Studyof Bhubaneswar and Surat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303Partha Tripathy, Krupesh A. Chauhan and Anjali K. Khambete

11 Smart Grid: Energy Backbone of Smart Cityand e-Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319Jignesh G. Bhatt and Omkar K. Jani

Part III E-Democracy Tools and Issues

12 Integration of Existing Information Systems as a SpatialeDemocracy Tool for Smart Cities in India. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369Mahavir and Prabh Bedi

13 Geo-enabled e-Democracy Tools and Services for Smart Cities . . . .. . . . 391Pramod Kumar, Kshama Gupta, Harish Chandra Karnatak,Asfa Siddiqui and A. Senthil Kumar

14 Attaining E-Democracy Through Digital Platformsin Kenya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441Romanus Opiyo, Baraka Mwau, Keziah Mwang’aand Dennis Mwaniki

15 Politics of Open Data in Russia: Regionaland Municipal Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461Yury Kabanov, Mikhail Karyagin and Viacheslav Romanov

16 Urbane: Community Driven Architectureand Planning Through a Mobile Social Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487Swapnil Shrivastav

17 Blockchain-Powered Internet of Things, E-Governanceand E-Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509Renming Qi, Chen Feng, Zheng Liu and Nezih Mrad

Part IV Conclusions

18 E-Democracy for Smart Cities: Conclusion and Path Ahead . . . . . . 523T.M. Vinod Kumar

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Editor and Contributors

About the Editor

Professor T.M. Vinod Kumar had 46 years of experience inUrban Planning, as teacher, researcher, adviser and consultant andworked in India, China, Bhutan, Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia andHawaii USA. He was Dean of Studies, Head of the Department ofUrban Planning, Head Centre for Systems Studies and Analysis,Centre forGIS andRemoteSensing, andCentre forUrbanStudies ofSchool of Planning and Architecture, NewDelhi; Visiting ProfessorNational Institute of Technology, Calicut, and Institute ofTechnology Bandung, Indonesia and Professional Associates, EastWest Resources Systems Institute Hawaii, Fellow Centre for theStudy of Developing Societies, Delhi, Project Manager in Councilfor Social Development, NewDelhi, Regional ProgramCoordinatorat International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development(ICIMOD) and Planner-Engineer the Ford Foundation. He is authorof many books and journal articles. He edited recently “GeographicInformation System for Smart Cities” (2014), “E-Governance forSmart Cities” (2015: Springer), and “Smart Economy in SmartCities” (2016: Springer).

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Dr. Femi Ola Aiyegbajeje has a Ph.D. in Geography,a Master of Science (M.Sc) degree in Geography anda Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in Geography fromthe University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria.Dr. Aiyegbajeje is currently with the Distance LearningCentre, University of Ibadan. His research interest is inHuman Geography with specialization in Transport andCommunication Geography, Urban and RegionalDevelopment.

Dr. Prabh Bedi has Ph.D. from School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi. She completed her PostBaccalaureate Certificate in Geographic InformationSystems from Pennsylvania State University, USA. Shegraduated fromSchool ofPlanning andArchitecture,NewDelhi (India) with Master of Planning (RegionalPlanning). She completed herMaster ofArts (Geography)and Bachelor of Arts (Honours-Geography) from PanjabUniversity, India. Having 20 years in experience inplanning and geospatial technologies, she’s the foundingdirector of Nipun Planners and Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd.,India and visiting faculty at School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi and other planning institutesaround Delhi. Her research interests include InformationSystems, geospatial technologies, NUIS, Smart Cities,demography, hydrology and climate change.

Prof. Jignesh G. Bhatt received B.E. (Instrumentationand Control Engineering), Gujarat University, India, 1997and M.Tech. (Electrical Engineering, Specialization:Measurement and Instrumentation) from IIT Roorkee,India, 2010. After acquiring industrial experience on man-agerial positions during 1997–1999, since 2000, he hasbeen serving Dharmsinh Desai University (DDU), Nadiad,India as Sr. Assistant Professor (Instrumentation andControl Engineering Department). He served asCo-ordinator and Principal Investigator for Govt. SponsoredResearch, Extension and Community DevelopmentProjects, PG Thesis Supervisor, Invited Expert-SessionChair in Conferences and Journal Reviewer-Editorial BoardMember. His research interests include Automation,

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e-Democracy, e-Governance, e-Learning, Instrumentationand Control, Smart City, Smart Grid, Solar City, SolarEnergy and Wireless Sensor Networks.

P. Bimal holds a master’s degree in City Planning fromIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and bachelors’degree in architecture from Kerala University. He hadbeen working at JUSCO, Jamshedpur, before joining asassistant professor at Department of Architecture, NITCalicut. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in urban mod-elling. His research interests include, Urban modelling,Transportation, GIS and Remote Sensing, Urban design,Parametric modelling in architecture and architecturalvisualisations. He has authored chapters in previous booksin this series.

Ms. Krista Busa is an Associate of Marketing andBusiness Development for UDP International. She holds aBachelor’s Degree in The Engineering of RegionalDevelopment and Urban Economics from Riga TechnicalUniversity, Lativa, and earned a Bachelor’s in Real EstateEconomics while on exchange at Aalto University Schoolof Engineering, Finland. Her main areas of focus areEconomic development, Community Engagement, ICTbased planning, and Marketing. She has worked withseveral public-sector projects on local and regionaldevelopment levels while working for the EuropeanInstitute of Public Administration in Barcelona (Spain) in2015. She has also gained experience in marketing,fundraising and business development while working as aCorporate Relations Responsible on several internationalprojects for European Students of Industrial Engineeringand Management (ESTIEM) and working as a MarketingManager for several private companies.

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Dr. Krupesh A. Chauhan is Associate professor andSection Head in Urban Planning Section of CED, SVNIT,Surat. He got his master inWREngineering and Town andCountry Planning from South Gujarat University. He gothis Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from SGU. He has fieldexperience of 13 years and teaching experience of 19 years.His areas of interest area Traffic and Transportation plan-ning, Housing, Infrastructure planning and managementetc. He has published more than 20 International Journalpapers and more than 40 conferences attended. He hasguided 2 Ph.D. scholars and 6 ongoing.

Ms. Ho Yan Claudia Chow is a Research Assistant atthe Institute for Sustainable Urbanisation and PlanningAssistant at UDP International. She holds a Bachelor’sDegree from the University of California, San Diego inUrban Planning & Studies. Her town planning experi-ence includes planning applications; adaptive re-use inhistoric buildings; public engagement; and planningstudies and research. Key projects with her involve-ment in Hong Kong include the Kai Tak Sports Park; aDedicated Quarantine Facility in Lei Yue Mun Park; atemporary eating place in the New Territories. Keyplanning research and studies with her participationinclude the Smart Cultural Triangle PrecinctConservation Plan for Central district and theE-Engagement in Hong Kong planning processes.During her practice at UDP International, she isresponsible for assisting town planning related projectsand research. Her research interests include: TownPlanning, Active Transportation (i.e. creating greatmobility choices; and promoting sustainable growth);and innovative community outreach.

Prof. R.D. Desai got his bachelor of architecture(B. Arch) from M.S. University, Baroda. Prof. R.D.Desai got his Post Graduate in Town and CountryPlanning with “Problems of Fringe Areas of Cities” asspecialization from School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi. He got his L. L. B. degreefrom South Gujarat University, Surat. He has servedas Advisor in Surat Urban Development Authority formore than two years. He has served as Director ofPlanning in Surat Municipal Corporation for over

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Thirteen years with duties like town planning schemes,Town Development etc.

He is founder chairman of

1. Surat Centre of Indian Institute of Architecture,Gujarat chapter

2. Surat Centre of Gujarat Regional Chapter of Instituteof Town Planners, India

3. Sanskruti Cultural Organization arranging culturalprograms and dramas

4. Trustee, Shri Sogayo Kelavani Mandal conductingprimary to higher secondary schools for urban poor-Shri D.K. Bhatkar School at Althan, Surat.Currently he is President of Surat Centre, Gujarat

Regional Chapter of ITPI and Hon. Director of GCPIA.His areas of expertise are Town Planning Schemes,Development Plan, City Fringe area Development etc.

Dr. Chen Feng received the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D.degrees from the Department of Electrical andComputer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada,in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, hewas a Postdoctoral Fellow with Boston University,USA, and EPFL, Switzerland. He joined the School ofEngineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna,Canada, in July 2015, where he is currently anAssistant Professor.

His research interests include data networks, codingtheory, information theory, and network coding.Dr. Feng was a recipient of the prestigious NSERCPostdoctoral Fellowship in 2014. He was recognizedby the IEEE Transactions on Communications(TCOM) as an Exemplary Reviewer in 2015.

Dr. Sujata S. Govada is an award winning qualifiedurban designer, certified town planner and a registeredarchitect in India, with over thirty-five years of diverseinternational experience in Hong Kong, PRC, India,Philippines and the US working on design and planningprojects. She is the Founding Director of the Institutefor Sustainable Urbanisation and the Founding andManaging Director of UDP International, a boutiqueglobal practice. Her expertise and research interestsinclude sustainable urbanization, smart city develop-ment, transit and pedestrian oriented development,

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harbourfront planning, new town development, urbanrenewal, heritage conservation, affordable housing andcommunity engagement. She is Adjunct AssociateProfessor at the School of Architecture, ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong and previously taught in theurban planning and urban design programs atThe University of Hong Kong. She is the GlobalTrustee of ULI and the Founding Vice President of theHong Kong Institute of Urban Design and the PastPresident of the American Institute of Hong Kong.

Mrs. Kshama Gupta is currently working as Scientistin Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (Indian Spaceresearch Organization), Dehradun. She had completedher M.Tech. in Urban Planning from School ofPlanning and Architecture, New Delhi, India in 2001after the completion of Bachelors in Architecture fromMalviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.Since then she is working as researcher in the field ofremote sensing and GIS applications for urban man-agement and made contributions in many national levelprojects and research areas. She has more than50 publications to her name as research papers ininternational/national journals/conferences and ISROtechnical reports. Her research interest includes smartplanning, urban climate and micro climate, urban greenspaces and 3D modeling of urban areas.

Dr. Omkar K. Jani is currently the PrincipalResearch Scientist (Solar Energy) at Gujarat EnergyResearch and Management Institute (GERMI). Hisprimary goals include advisory for various solar-relatedgovernment and private initiatives, developing andundertaking fundamental and applied research, andcapacity building. Dr. Jani is a member of the StateAdvisory Committee of the Gujarat ElectricityRegulatory Commission (GERC). He is also an advisorto several clean-tech companies and NGOs. Dr. Janireceived his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering fromGeorgia Institute of Technology with specialization inSolar Photovoltaic Science and Engineering, and hispost-doctoral fellowship from the Institute of EnergyConversion, Delaware, USA.

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Yury Kabanov is a lecturer at the Department ofApplied Political Science, the National ResearchUniversity Higher School of Economics(St. Petersburg). His research interests include com-parative authoritarianism, political regime dynamics,electronic participation and Internet politics. He haspublished several articles in Russian and English on thedevelopment of e-government/open government/opendata in Russia and comparative e-participationdevelopment in non-democracies.

Ashmita Karmakar A graduate in Architecture,Masters in Town and Regional Planning and Ph.D. inEnvironmental Planning from School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi, India. Ashmita has beenworking in the field of Urban Planning since year 2002.She has worked with various Consulting companies,Semi Government companies and GovernmentAuthorities in the UAE from 2007 focusing on develop-ing concept plan to final master plan proposal, feasibilitystudies, impact assessment studies and formulation ofDevelopment control guidelines and regulations.

Apart from the professional field, she is activelyparticipating in academics by mentoring young plan-ners of the region and contributing articles for journalsand international publications.

Dr. Harish Chandra Karnatak is currently workingas a Scientist and Head, Geoweb Services, IT andDistance Learning Department at Indian Institute ofRemote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO Dehradun, India. Hereceived his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science withspecialization in Geoinformatics. Dr. Karnatak has madesignificant contributions in various national level projectsand outreach programmes on applications of space tech-nology for natural resources and disaster management inIndia. His area of specialization includes web/Internetbased GIS, spatial DBMS, online geoprocessing andanalysis. Currently he is leading a team of scientists andtechnologists for development of online digital contentand capacity building programmes on space technologyand its applications under IIRS outreach programme. Hehas published more than 60 peer reviewed researchpapers in various scientific journals, seminars and

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conferences. Dr. Karnatak is also a recipient of variousprofessional awards in the area of remote sensing andgeospatial technologies.

Mikhail Karyagin is a Ph.D. student at the NationalResearch University Higher School of Economics(St. Petersburg). He is Master of Arts in PoliticalScience and currently holds the position of a leadingexpert at the Infometer Project Center. His scientificinterests are the open data research, ICTs and politics,political regimes and elections. He has carried out andpublished several articles on the topics in Russianand English.

Dr. (Mrs.) Anjali K. Khambete is Associate professorof Civil Engineering Department, SVNIT, and Surat. Shegot her Bachelors’ Degree in Civil engineering andmasters in Environment engineering from SVNIT, Surat.She did her Ph.D. in “Integrated Efficiency based per-formance evaluation of wastewater treatment plant usingfuzzy logic approach” from SVNIT, Surat. She hasteaching experience of over 32 years. She has published7 books and many papers in national and internationaljournal and reviewer for various journals. She has guided4 Ph.D. students and 38 M.Tech. Students throughout hercareer. She is active in consultancy work as auditorregarding environment engineering with governmentagencies and member in audit committee at GujaratPollution Control Board, Gandhinagar. She is acting asnominee director at Ms/Vapi Green Enviro Ltd. at Vapiand Sarigam CETP (SCT), Sarigam.

Professor Ashok Kumar, Ph.D., is working as aProfessor in the School of Planning and Architecture,New Delhi since 1993. His research interests includeInclusive City Planning, Spatial Justice, and PlanningEpistemologies. He has published nearly 100 papers innational and international refereed journals, written andedited 8 books, and published 18 book chapters. He isthe Editor of the ITPI Journal since 2002.A co-authored chapter is slated for publication in TheRoutledge Handbook of Planning Theory in early 2017.Currently, Prof. Kumar is working on a co-authored

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book manuscript on “City Planning in India” undercontract with Routledge, which is expected to bepublished in 2017.

Pramod Kumar is Head, Urban and Regional StudiesDepartment, IIRS, Dehradun, India. He is also the GroupHead of Programme Planning and Evaluation Group ofIIRS. He is an alumnus of IIT, Kharagpur, India andjoined Indian Space Research Organization in 1991.Earlier, he has worked as Assistant Engineer at CES,New Delhi. He has been involved in more than50 national level/ technology demonstration andresearch projects using geospatial data and techniques toevolve solutions for natural resources management andbrought out technical reports and research publications.He has published more than 40 papers in journals andconference proceedings and many technical reports. Heis the recipient of ISRO Team Excellence Awards fortwo projects. At present, he has research interests inurban water utilities and urban hydrology.

Dr. Zheng Liu received the Doctorate degree in engi-neering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2000.He joined and served the National Research Council(NRC) Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada from 2001–2012.He was working for the Toyota Technological Institute,Nagoya, Japan from 2012–2015 and is currently withUBC Okanagan. His research interests include imageand data fusion, computer vision, pattern recognition,sensors and sensor networks, IoT, structural healthmonitoring, and non-destructive inspection and evalua-tion. Dr. Liu is senior member of IEEE and serves on theeditorial board for a number of peer-reviewed journals ofIEEE, Elsevier, and Springer.

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Dr. J.E.M. Macwan did his B.Tech in CivilEngineering from South Gujarat University, Surat. In thesame university he got his Master degree in civil engi-neering with specialization in “Evaluation of …Bio-kinetic Constants of Industrial wastes”. He got hisPh.D. from South Gujarat University with specializationin “Fuzzy Simulation analysis of Residential Locationbehavior for Metropolitan”. He has total teaching expe-rience of 33 years in S V National Institute ofTechnology, Surat. Currently he is Head of CivilEngineering Department. He is Author of over23 International and 11 National Journal papers. Heguided more than 60 Post Graduates in various fields ofcivil engineering and 4 Ph.D. Scholars. His areas ofinterest are Smart Mass Transportation, Smart Housing,Affordable Housing, Water and Waste water etc.

Prof. Mahavir holds a degree in Architecturefollowed by a Master’s degree in Urban and RegionalPlanning. He subsequently obtained a PG Diploma inRemote Sensing from ITC, Netherlands. He was alsoawarded PhD jointly by the ITC and UtrechtUniversity, Netherlands. He has been engaged inteaching, practice and research in the fields of Urbanand Regional Planning and GeoSpatial information forover 30 years. Prof. Mahavir has authored and editedseveral books. He has published over 40 papers,nationally and internationally. He is currently Professorand Editor of the SPACE Journal at School of Planningand Architecture, New Delhi, India.

Dr. Nezih Mrad received the Ph.D. degree in engi-neering from Pennsylvania State University in 1995, andtwo Masters degrees, in applied mathematics and inmechanical engineering, from the University of SouthCarolina, Columbia, in 1987 and 1988, respectively.

He is currently a Defence Scientist with the DefenceR&D Canada (DRDC), Department of National Defence,Ottawa,ON,Canada.He is also anAdjunct ProfessorwithCarleton University and the University of Sherbrooke. Hehas intensive experience in advanced sensing, wirelesssensors and sensor networks, IoT, energy harvesting, and

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RFID sensors. He conducts and manages R&D activitiesin CBM, SHM, PHM, micro- and nanotechnologies, andautonomic logistics. He has authored or co-authored over250 publications.

Keziah Mwang’a is an urban planner and currently aPh.D. candidate at the Gran Sasso Science Institute,Italy. She holds a BA in Urban and Regional Planningfrom the University of Nairobi and a Master of City andRegional Planning from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, USA. Her research and career interests arecentered on the role of political governance, powerrelations and planning education in shaping urbandevelopment policy and practice. She has worked bothin Kenya and USA with governments, non-profitorganizations and research institutions working topromote equitable development.

Dennis Mwaniki is the Associate Director for UrbanPlanning and GIS at GORA Corp. Before joining GORACorp in 2014, he worked for 3.5 years as a GIS andresearch consultant at the Global Urban Observatory(GUO) and the Best Practices Section of UN-Habitat.In GUO, he developed and implemented the methodologyfor calculating the amount of land allocated to streets forover 100 cities. He contributed to the State of the World’sCities report: Prosperity of Cities in 2012-13; and to thepublication “streets as public spaces and drivers of urbanprosperity. He has also worked as a GIS and urban plan-ning consultant with the Slum Dwellers International—Kenya; the Center for Urban Research and Innovations atthe University of Nairobi; and various private companiesbased in Nairobi. He holds a Masters in EnvironmentalPlanning and Management and a Bachelors degree inUrban and Regional Planning. He is a member of theGlobal Human Settlements Working Group of the Groupon Earth Observations (GHS WG) and was a co-author inthe publication “Smart Economy in Smart Cities”.

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Baraka Mwau is an Urban Planner and Researcher,currently a consultant at UN-Habitat and AssociateResearcher: Centre for Urban Research and Innovations,University of Nairobi. He has previously worked withShack/Slum Dwellers International and AffiliateOrganizations in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania andMalawi as an urban planner and as a community planningstudio facilitator for projects done in collaboration withAssociation of African Planning Schools. Mwau’sresearch interests are: urbanization and urban develop-ment in sub-Saharan Africa, urban informality, partici-patory planning and development.

Femi Olokesusi has a Doctorate Degree in Geographyfrom the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria withspecialisation in Environmental Planning andManagement. A fellow of the Nigerian Institute ofTown Planning, he retired as a Research Professor fromthe Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research(NISER) in Ibadan, Nigeria. He held several positionsNISER including Acting Director-General/ChiefExecutive Officer. A 1994/95 Fulbright AfricanSenior Scholar, he has conducted several studies formany national and international agencies such asUNDP, UNCTAD, and UN-Habitat. He served as aresource person to draft Nigeria Vision 20:2020 and theNational Infrastructure Master Plan. He was a LandUse/Urban Planning consultant for UN-Habitat in2014/2015 on the preparation of City Structure Plansfor Lokoja and Dekina in Nigeria. He is currently amember of the Independent Advisory Group of theWorld Bank-assisted Ibadan Urban Flood ManagementProject and a Professor of Urban and RegionalPlanning at the College of Social and ManagementSciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, EkitiState, Nigeria.

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Romanus Opiyo is a lecturer at the Department ofUrban and Regional Planning and an associateresearcher with Centre for Urban Research andInnovations, University of Nairobi, Kenya. He has tenyears University teaching and research supervisionexperience, and more than fifteen years undertakingresearch work. His research experience and interests areon urban security, transportation and general land useplanning, climate change and institutional governanceand livelihoods for which he has published widely.Dr. Opiyo has also consulted at various capacities withthe Government of Kenya, UNEP, UN-HABITAT,UNDP, UNCRD, World Bank, DFID, IDRC, SIDA,among other national and international NGOs. He is amember of the Kenya Institute of Planners (KIP), theTown and County Planners Association of Kenya(TCPAK) and Environmental Institute of Kenya (EIK).He is also a member of the Kenya Urban SectorReference Group which is supporting the Council ofGovernors Urban Development Committee, a Memberof Kenya Civil Society Network for NMT and RoadSafety (CIVNET) and a Member of Kenya TransportResearch Network. Dr. Opiyo was a co-author in thepublication “Smart Economy in Smart Cities”. Heholds a Ph.D. and Masters in Urban and RegionalPlanning and a Bachelors degree in Social Sciences.

Renming Qi received the B.Eng. degree fromUniversity of Science and Technology of China in 2016and is now pursuing an M.A.Sc. degree at the School ofEngineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna,Canada, starting from September 2016. His currentresearch interests include information theory and dis-tributed systems, with a particular focus on blockchaintechniques.

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Aruna Sri Reddi has completed her Ph.D. from theDepartment of Architecture and Regional Planning,Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. She hasdual Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planningfrom India and USA. Aruna has more than five years ofexperience in the area of Transportation planning andGIS from USA. She is a trained architect and worked inIndia, Belarus, and Russia in various architecturalprojects and has ten years of experience. She started hercareer in teaching from National Institute ofTechnology, Calicut. Currently she is working asassociate professor at Pillai College of Architecture,Maharashtra.

Mr. Timothy Rodgers is a Research Associate at theInstitute for Sustainable Urbanisation and UDPInternational. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from McGillUniversity in Economics and Geography (UrbanSystems) and a Master’s Degree from the University ofHong Kong in Transport Policy and Planning. Hisexperience at UDP International includes research andreport writing on current issues including Smart Cities andAffordable Housing, assisting in the development of aSmart City Framework with a focus on People, Place andPlanet as core elements. He was the team lead for aresearch chapter contributing to a collaborative interna-tional research book publication on the topic of “SmartEconomy in Smart Cities”, and has benchmarkedaffordable housing policies and strategies of major globalcities to aid Hong Kong’s affordable housing discussion.

Viacheslav Romanov has graduated from the UralsState Law Academy Justice Institute (lawyer/barristerspecialization). Presently he holds the position ofDirector for Analytics in the Infometer Project Center.His area of interest includes data analysis and visual-ization, as well as the impact of ICTs on everyday life.

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Ummer Sahib is a City Planner with 30 years ofexperience in geospatial technology and development ofinnovative solutions for City Planning and Management.He has been responsible for process automation in exe-cuting large GIS, LIS and Urban mapping projects inAsia, Middle East, Europe and Africa. Mr. Sahib is cur-rently the Executive Director of Informap TechnologyCenter in Sharjah, UAE heading Future Technologies andapplication development.

Starting his career in GIS software development pro-ject for Department of Electronics, Govt. of India,Mr. Sahib’s expertise lies in GIS, Open source webmapping applications, navigation data production,Geo-analytics and perfecting a virtual addressing systemcalled GRL (Geo Reference Locator) for the UAE. Since2005, Mr. Sahib is the driving force behind his com-pany’s creative innovation on GPS and NFC technologysolutions. He is passionate on integrating IoT, Big Dataand cloud technologies for establishing Urban OperatingSystem to realize the true meaning of a SMART CITY.

Mr. Sahib holds Post Graduate Diploma (M.Tech) inCity Planning (1985) from School of Planning andArchitecture, CEPT Ahmedabad, India. He is also theAssociate member of the Institute of Town Planners,ITPI India, since 1986.

He has co-authored book on E-Governance forSmart Cities published by Springer in January 2015. Hewas a panel member in the 4th GCC Municipalities &smart cities conference and speaker at the GITEX 2014Smart Cities conference held in Dubai. He has publishedseveral papers on GIS/LIS and accident management andis currently leading a team on designing and developingMobile Apps for Smart Cities.

Dr. A. Senthil Kumar received M.Sc. (Engg.) andPh.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore inthe field of image processing in 1985 and 1990,respectively. He worked as consultant andpost-doctoral fellow at the Raman Research Institute,Bangalore for six months before joining ISRO in 1991.Since then, he has served in Indian Remote Sensingprogrammes in various capacities. He has beeninvolved in sensor characterization, radiometric dataprocessing, image restoration, data fusion techniques,and artificial neural networks. As an outcome of his

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research work, he has published more than 60 technicalpapers in international journals and conferences and ISROtechnical reports in the areas of image processing andremote sensing. He has received prestigious Prof. SatishDhawan Award conferred by the Indian Society ofRemote Sensing apart from ISRO Team Awards for hiscontribution to Chandrayaan-1 and Cartosat-1 missions.

He is currently serving as the Director of IndianInstitute of Remote Sensing, Dehradun and UN affili-ated Centre for Space Science and TechnologyEducation in Asia and the Pacific. Besides, he is thePresident of ISPRS Technical Commission V onEducation and Outreach and Vice Chair of CEOSWorking Group on Capacity Building and DataDemocracy.

Swapnil Shrivastav I am a 23-year old entrepreneurworking in the domain of clean-tech, water and Internetof Things (IoT). I graduated as an architect fromNational Institute of Technology Calicut in 2016.Design thinking and sustainable solutions are mystrong focus areas. I have previously worked on pro-jects involving rain-water harvesting, grey-water treat-ment systems, architectural design and UI/UX. At mystartup, Uravu Labs, we are working on technologieswhich involve generating drinking water from air andare on a mission to make water accessible to everyone!

Asfa Siddiqui is currently working as Scientist inIndian Institute of Remote Sensing (Indian Spaceresearch Organization) since 2014. She did herBachelors in Architecture from Govt. College ofArchitecture, Lucknow and Masters in Urban Planningfrom School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.She has also worked in NIT Calicut prior to joiningISRO. Her research interests are in areas of smartenergy, smart environment, thermal remote sensing andhyperspectral remote sensing.

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Dr. Neha Goel Tripathi is an environmental plannerwith over 15 years of experience in EnvironmentalManagement and Architecture. She is presently work-ing as Assistant Professor in School of Planning andArchitecture, New Delhi. She did her post graduationfrom School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhiin Master of Planning, specialization in EnvironmentalPlanning (2003) and was awarded the Gold medal foroverall performance. She is Associate member, Instituteof Town Planners, New Delhi, Member, Council ofArchitecture, New Delhi and Member, Indian BuildingCouncil, New Delhi. National Environmental ScienceAcademy. Experience of more than 10 years in the fieldof environmental planning and architecture and workedon projects like Zonal Development Plan for Eco sen-sitive Area, Mount Abu, Indian Institute ofManagement, Indore, Manali Redevelopment Plan etc.She has published articles on field of Ecologicalfoortprint, Solar Zoning, Climate change etc. Awardedthe first prize from the Hon’ble Minister for Housing &Urban Poverty Alleviation, Kumari Selja for paperpresentation, Climate Change and Indian CitiesPerspectives presented for World Habitat Day 2011organized by HUDCO, New Delhi.

Partha Tripathy has a Bachelors in Engineering fromSVNIT, Surat, Post Graduation in Project Managementfrom CEPT, Ahmedabad and a MA in RegulatoryStudies from TERI University, New Delhi. Partha ispursuing his Ph.D. in Urban Planning from SVNIT,Surat working on Smartness Index for Indian Cities.He has published 3 research papers in InternationalConferences on E-governance, Mobility in Smart Citiesand financing of Smart Cities projects. He has nearly16 years of experience in Project Development in thePPP projects and has worked in State GovernmentPSUs in Gujarat as well as Odisha. Partha is a certifiedPPP trainer under the National PPP Capacity BuildingProgramme (NPCBP) of the Department of EconomicAffairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India.Partha is currently working as a consultant withInternational Finance Corporation.

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Mr. Frank Wong is a versatile and multi-disciplinaryprofessional in the development industry specializing incross-disciplinary project management and town plan-ning. Throughout his career, he has acquired a varietyof project management experience including culturaldistrict development, new town development, anddesign and implementation of sustainable greeningframework. His town planning experience includesplanning studies, statutory planning, public engage-ment, development consultancy, urban design andmaster planning, strategic planning and cross-boundaryfacilities planning. During his practice at UDPInternational, he is responsible for business develop-ment as well as providing advice to clients on variousaspects ranging from real estate development (incl.preliminary valuation, retail and market studies forcommercial property, strategic advice on acquisition),town planning and urban design.

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