Smart City Strategic Framework

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City of Sydney's 2020 framework sets five outcomes for the ethical, secure use of data and technology. It is backed by working pilots — an open-data portal, public wi-fi, pedestrian-counting sensors, smart lighting and stormwater monitoring — plus the start of a citywide digital twin.

Live 📅 since 2020
Evidence🏛️ Officialgrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ City of Sydney — Smart City Strategic Framework (authority)Official framework page; adopted 27 August 2020, still current.
↗ City of Sydney — Smart City Strategic Framework, full document (PDF)Primary framework document: five outcomes and the named initiatives.
↗ MDPI Sustainability (2024) — analysis of Sydney's smart city initiativesIndependent academic review corroborating the digital twin, sensor and data initiatives.
📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Smart City Strategic Framework” — Sydney, Australia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/sydney-smart-city/ (last verified 2026-07-19). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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