| Abstrak/Abstract |
The increasing number of problems arising in the city because of the limited resources requires local governments to solve it in a smart way using innovative technologies and available abundant data creatively. Big data should be an integral part of smart city strategy as it is used as an input for decision-making policy formation for supporting smart governance. This paper discusses readiness and challenges of the city of Yogyakarta towards the realisation of smart city means, especially related to availability and management of the data. It identifies the possibilities of how urban data is generated, selected and used to govern and manage the city. It analyses systematically three different available data sources that are used by the city in three stages of application, namely sensing, understanding, and acting. The big data consists of government-generated data, privategenerated data including universities and NGO, and citizen-generated data. E-government that is already implemented in the city governance supported by innovations developed by each local government-working unit (SKPD) is substantial and initial data sources in this context. Private sectors also follow and play an important role in contributing urban data through their business applications. Meanwhile the development of the Internet and the increasing public accessibility to the online information such as the use of social media is a potential data generator to capture the aspirations and participation from the citizens.This paper shows that to encourage level of readiness toward smart governance of Yogyakarta City, a comprehensive sensing and understanding the data as fundamental stage in incorporating big data is needed as well as an integrated top-down and bottom up data management approaches. |
