Focus Areas

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

1. Safety and community resilience issues
2. 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