ISUI Smart City Index

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The ISUI Smart City Index is jointly developed by ISUI and Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI), endorsed and published by the International Society for Urban Informatics.
Echoing the new trend in smart-city development, we aim to develop a universally applicable, objective, comprehensive, and human-centric Smart City Index fully based on publicly available datasets.
We hope this index will help cities review their development status and explore ways to become smarter cities for everyone.

Human-centric: concentrated on the impact and changes that smart cities bring to the lives of citizens.
Theoretical continuity and conceptual expansion: rooted in the foundational understanding of what constitutes a functioning city.
Universality: balanced consideration in stages of development and cultures of the cities.
Objectiveness and repeatability: fully based on publicly available data.

Expanded conceptual foundation: Integrates core urban factors to bridge historical functions with modern smart city frameworks.
Wider coverage: Increased from 50 to 73 cities for better global representation and regional comparison.
New evaluation indicators: New evaluation methods for social exclusion and green open public spaces across diverse urban contexts.
Improved weighting: Reduced sensitivity to heavy-tailed data distributions in geographic metrics.
Bias-adjusted scaling: Refined per capita indicators with nonlinear population adjustments to mitigate large-city undervaluation.

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