{"id":1256,"date":"2023-06-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2024-05-01T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:38:46","slug":"bridging-cities-johors-leap-into-the-smart-city-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/2023\/06\/15\/bridging-cities-johors-leap-into-the-smart-city-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging Cities: Johor\u2019s Leap into the Smart City Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s journey from Singapore to Johor Bahru\u2019s Smart City Forum showcased the burgeoning ties between these neighboring cities, soon to be strengthened by the MRT\u2019s RTS Link. This event underscored the region\u2019s commitment to smart city development, highlighting the need for robust data strategies to complement top-down governance. Malaysia\u2019s smart city trajectory is gaining momentum, promising an era of interconnected, data-empowered urban centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=singapore&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#Singapore<\/a> \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec, I crossed today the border to attend the Johor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=smartcity&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#SmartCity<\/a> Forum 2023 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=johorbarhu&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#JohorBarhu<\/a> city \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe. Both cities will be actually connected by the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=mrt&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#MRT<\/a>\u2019s RTS Link \ud83d\ude86 in 2027.<br><br>I met a lot of nice people and experts there. And particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAABltYkoByUqvIF01tfFuduZHZ1vinPyPQJ0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/tpr-ts-md-farabi-yussoff-md-yussoff-4b6a4aba\/\">Ts. Md Farabi Yussoff<\/a>, head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=smartcity&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#smartcity<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=planmalaysia&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#PLANMalaysia<\/a>, who presented to me the Malaysian Urban Observatory (MUO), a new national digital platform for cities that is under development through a partnership between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/map2u\/\">MAP2U Sdn Bhd<\/a> \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe (GIS) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/quantelainc\/\">Quantela Inc.<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (analytics), and based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/esri\/\">Esri<\/a> tools (visualization).<br><br>A great regional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=networking&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#networking<\/a> event with a lot of new opportunities and challenges in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=smartcity&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#smartcity<\/a> area (and era !). Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=malaysia&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#Malaysia<\/a> \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe finally on tracks ? In addition to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=topdown&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7074326605933760512\">#topdown<\/a> approach, a data strategy is also locally needed in\/by cities \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s journey from Singapore to Johor Bahru\u2019s Smart City Forum showcased the burgeoning ties between these neighboring cities, soon to be strengthened by the MRT\u2019s RTS Link. This event underscored the region\u2019s commitment to smart city development, highlighting the need for robust data strategies to complement top-down governance. Malaysia\u2019s smart city trajectory is gaining momentum, promising an era of interconnected, data-empowered urban centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83],"tags":[216,114,102],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-cities-en","category-urban-policies-en","tag-planmalaysia","tag-sustainability","tag-urbanplanning","grid-sizer","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}