GCTC Organization and Technology Focus Areas
- Transportation systems, vehicles, and autonomy
- (adding cross-over topics Parking, Lidar, road systems/ODOT, trenching for broadband, charging stations, rights of way)
- Data governance and city data platforms and dashboards
- Public utilities for energy, water and waste management
- might this now (or soon) include broadband (perhaps management / oversight / policy)
- Wireless communications and broadband applications (perhaps from the perspective of technologies / data / data management)
- Cybersecurity and privacy for public and private sectors
- Public safety/security and communications
- Community resilience, adaptability and sustainability
- Agriculture and rural productivity and quality of life
- Smart building technologies and IoT applications (perhaps now with “Building” as a verb and including community engagement / Computer-Human Interface Design / UX
- Education and workforce development (Covering the Education industry (vertical) as well as serving as the outreach / education / communications arm for GCTC generally (horizontal) as we have not had a Marketing/Communications *function; Has also been the seat of “Community Engagement” topic)
- Smart Regions and collaboration strategies (Does “collaboration strategies” refer to techniques, technologies, processes, governance?)
- Community well-being, ethics, integrity, and trust (Was “Thriving Communities” coupled with “DEI”)
QUESTIONS: WHAT’S MISSING – WHERE ARE THE GAPS, WHERE ARE THE OTHER OVERLAPS, WHAT ARE THE HANDOFFS BETWEEN FOCUS AREAS, HOW IS OR SHOULD BE THE WORK INTEGRATED
- Safety and community resilience issues
- Start with key performance indicators of a city
Key Indicators
Blue wedges show social performance relative to a threshold associated with meeting basic needs. Green wedges show resource use relative to a biophysical boundary associated with sustainability. Red wedges show shortfalls below the social threshold or overshoot beyond the biophysical boundary, while grey wedges show indicators with missing data. Wedges with a dashed edge extend beyond the chart area. Ideally a country would have blue wedges that reach the social foundation and green wedges within the ecological ceiling. See the tables below for country-specific details.
| Social Indicator
|
United Kingdom
|
Sri Lanka
|
Per Capita Boundary
|
Threshold Unit
|
| Life Satisfaction
|
6.9
|
4.2
|
6.5
|
[0-10] Cantril scale
|
| Healthy Life Expect.
|
71
|
64
|
65
|
years of healthy life
|
| Nutrition
|
3414
|
2488
|
2700
|
kilocalories per capita per day
|
| Sanitation
|
100
|
91.1
|
95
|
% with access to improved sanitation
|
| Income
|
100
|
98.3
|
95
|
% who earn above $1.90 per day
|
| Access to Energy
|
100
|
88.7
|
95
|
% with access to electricity
|
| Education
|
92.8
|
99.1
|
95
|
% enrolment in secondary school
|
| Social Support
|
94.9
|
84.2
|
90
|
% with friends or family they can depend on
|
| Democratic Quality
|
0.8
|
-0.6
|
0.8
|
Democratic Quality Index
|
| Equality
|
65.2
|
58.5
|
70
|
[0-100] Scale -> (1 - Gini Index) * 100
|
| Employment
|
92.2
|
95.8
|
94
|
% of labour force employed
|
| Biophysical Indicator
|
United Kingdom
|
Sri Lanka
|
Per Capita Boundary
|
Unit
|
| CO2 Emissions
|
12.1
|
1.1
|
1.6
|
tonnes CO2 per year
|
| Phosphorus
|
5.2
|
0.1
|
0.9
|
kilograms P per year
|
| Nitrogen
|
72.9
|
1.9
|
8.9
|
kilograms N per year
|
| Blue Water
|
240
|
405
|
574
|
cubic metres H2O per year
|
| Land Use (eHANPP)
|
2.4
|
1.5
|
2.6
|
tonnes C per year
|
| Ecological Footprint
|
4.2
|
1.2
|
1.7
|
global hectares (gha) per year
|
| Material Footprint
|
24.3
|
3.2
|
7.2
|
tonnes per year
|