A dashboard at the Smart City Monitoring and Management Centre in Dak Lak province (Photo: VNA)According to Dr Luu Duc Minh, deputy director of the Academy of Managers forConstruction & Cities (AMC), the goal of smart city development is not howmany criteria are met, but to increase the quality of life for the people.
“The core nature of sustainable cities, according to the Politburo’s Resolution06, is development aligning with green growth and climate change response.
“Therefore, for cities to be ‘smart’, management at all levels need to have theright perspective and the existing urban issues need to be addressed,” saidMinh.
Politburo Resolution No 06-NQ/TW on planning, construction, management andsustainable development of urban areas in Vietnam to 2030, with a vision to2045, was issued on January 24, 2022.
Citing examples, Minh said that urbanisation required solutions for a city’scurrent shortcomings, such as housing, planning, water drainage, traffic orwaste treatment.
Measures needed to be taken alongside proper and comprehensive investment andconstruction, which would help improve the quality of the urban areas as wellas people’s life quality, he said.
The AMC, which is under the Ministry of Construction (MoC), has beencoordinating with other departments to form a professional centre that willpromote research and training on smart cities and advanced constructiontechnology.
This is part of a cooperation project between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea(RoK) which the MoC expects to realise the Party direction and policies indeveloping sustainable smart cities by 2030.
The four key aspects AMC are focusing its training programmes on are theoverview of smart city and its development management, Party direction and theState laws on building and developing smart cities, smart city standards andindexes, and the components of smart city development.
These training programmes are targeted at public officers, who will thenprovide consultancy to their respective locality on its smart city developmentproject.
Dr Luu Duc Hai, director of the Institute for Urban Studies and InfrastructureDevelopment, who also led the MoC’s Urban Development Agency, said that it wasinevitable to build smart cities.
Therefore, training programmes in this sector needed to focus on sustainabledevelopment and smart cities.
Meanwhile, Dr Nguyen Hong Tien, former head of the Urban Infrastructure Agency,added that these programmes needed improvement to be more concentrated andre-categorised into groups such as smart city database, planning andoperations.
He added that the curriculum should also specify the steps to be achieved inbuilding a smart city, allowing learners to understand what should be done inthe city’s course of development.
Sharing the same perspectives, Bach Minh Tuan, deputy director of the MoC’sInformation Centre, agreed that the subjects taught needed to be arranged inorder of priority, with smart city criteria included right in the planningprocess for optimal results.
Dr Vu Anh, a lecturer from Hanoi Architectural University, added that trainingprogrammes needed to identify human resources and capital among its investmentsources.
“Training programmes should utilise multiple tools in smart city development.
“Resolution No 06-NQ/TW will be a key guideline throughout to developsustainable smart city programmes,” said Vu Anh./.
VNA
