SMART CITIES
INNOVATION IS THE K TO BEING A SMART C – NOT TECH The City of Prospect in Adelaide is proof that small cities can be more agile in responding to challenges, more responsive to community needs, and will embrace fresh thinking to overcome resourcing and scale limitations.
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n 2020, the City of Prospect was included in the top 21 intelligent communities in the world by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF). This is the seventh time the city has been included in this list in the last nine years, and it was also a joint winner of Infrastructure’s Smart City of the Year Award in 2019. One reason for this recognition is that we keep on innovating, which is necessary for a small council and in fact easier than in a larger organisation. Big corporates have to have innovation units but our council departments work very collaboratively – you could say all our 85 staff are part of the innovation unit. Most recently, in response to COVID-19, the council developed a brand new program in only two weeks called Prospect Delivers, which involved providing $25 redeemable food vouchers to our vulnerable residents, who
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