WORLD SMART CITY AWARDS
Discover this year's winning projects, cities and individuals
The annual World Smart City Awards is a prestigious international competition that seeks to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies making cities around the world more livable, sustainable, and economically viable.
After another highly competitive process, with a record-breaking 411 entries sent in from 63 countries worldwide, this year’s winners were announced at a gala held during Smart City Expo 2023.
Discover the winning entries below. Congratulations to all!
WORLD SMART CITY AWARDS - 2023 WINNERS
Meet the winners, finalists and their groundbreaking projects for each awards category.
CITY AWARD
Awarded to cities for developed global strategies combining projects, initiatives and policy implementations for their citizens.
Barranquilla: Solving Development Challenges by Going Green
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Barranquilla, Colombia
By successfully integrating climate action into its urban planning, Barranquilla is on a path to becoming Latin America’s first “BiodiverCity,” betting on phased investments in green infrastructure and sustainable solutions aimed at improving the quality of life for its residents.
Smart Alert System
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İzmir, Turkey
The smart fire alarm system is a system that transmits real-time information with a low margin of error for the detection and rapid response of fires. In the event of a possible fire, it enables teams to receive notifications quickly and perform detailed image analysis.
Makati City’s IoT Revolution: Empowering the City to Become Better Stewards of Energy & Environment
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Makati, Philippines
Makati City is demonstrating the use of IoT devices and solutions not only as a tool in creating data-driven policies but also in creating behavioral transformation among its citizens, empowering them to be responsible stewards of the city’s resources, leading to sustainable and replicable results.
Viver Cascais | Citizen centred service design
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Cascais, Portugal
Viver Cascais is a citizen loyalty program that offers advantageous access to a variety of services and activities (such as mobility, health, and culture) through a single sign-in card. Its goal is to enhance the well-being and quality of life for everyone living, studying, or working in Cascais.
Connected for Success: Welcome to Sunderland, City of Smart
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Sunderland, United Kingdom
Sunderland City Council & Boldyn Networks are creating the UK’s smartest city, leaving no one & nowhere behind. Advanced wireless technologies are facilitating digital transformation for all. A smart city data platform is harnessing data, creating new insights & real-time management across the city.
CATEGORY
INNOVATION AWARD
Awarded to projects with the potential of contributing to the successful transformation, adaptation or response of our cities to the Covid-19 pandemic or others that may occur in the future.
SPIRE: Smart Post-Industrial Regenerative Ecosystem in Baia Mare (Romania)
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European Urban Initiative
European Urban Initiative
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ECO-HEROES: Socio-Professional Integration of Young People through an Eco-Guide Training
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Pikala Bikes, Marrakech, Morocco
Pikala Bikes, Marrakech, Morocco
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Digital Trust for Places and Routines: Innovative Global Standard to Navigate Digital Infrastructure
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Helpful Places, Toronto, Canada
Digital Trust for Places and Routines (DTPR), is an open-source communication standard designed to increase transparency, legibility and accountability for digital technology in public places, that is helping foster trust in smart cities tech in North America, France and Australia.
Smart D8 – A Smart District Approach to Citizen Health and Wellbeing in Dublin 8
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Dublin, Ireland
Smart D8 is a smart district and demonstrator to solve health and wellbeing challenges with citizens and service providers in Dublin, Ireland's capital city. Cross-sector partnerships create innovation access for prospective health and wellbeing impacts in local populations, to internationally scale.
Public Innovation Governance Model for Bogotá
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Laboratorio de Innovación Pública de Bogotá- iBO, Colombia
The problem: The need to articulate and integrate the various actors of the public innovation ecosystem of Bogotá to meet the common objectives of the city. Is relevant because it promotes collaboration, transparency and responsibility in a public innovation ecosystem.
Tetratinu Limited
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Lagos, Nigeria
Our solution is focused on building resilient and sustainable communities through tackling the issue of social security, general security and emergencies and ensuring that residents within communities can feel safe and protected to thrive.
CATEGORY
LEADERSHIP AWARD
Awarded to exemplary living individuals who
have made significant contributions to advancing smart cities projects worldwide
during the last 10 years.
Anna Lisa Boni
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Former General Secretary of EUROCITIES and Deputy Mayor of Bologna, Italy
Former General Secretary of EUROCITIES and Deputy Mayor of Bologna, Italy
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Claudio Orrego
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Governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
Governor of the Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
WINNER
PROJECT AWARDS
These prizes highlight innovative projects making waves within the sectors covered by our main tracks.
CATEGORY
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in the fields of data and technology.
Human Centric AI Transformation for Smart City Citizen Health Care Service - Kaohsiung Health 3.0
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Kaohsiung City Government
WHO proposed community care in 1978, emphasizing primary health care for universal health coverage. Kaohsiung Healthcare shifted from conventional to digital approaches, employing IoT to unify devices, connecting data with medical facilities, and utilizing AI-driven models for diverse care services.
Digital Twins for Monitoring and Controlling the Status of the UNESCO-Protected Palaces of Genoa
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Libelium, Zaragoza, Spain
Innovative platform to improve the management of historic building conservation via digital twins, IoT sensors and remote sensing technologies for environmental monitoring. Bridges past and future while addressing climate impact.
CATEGORY
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in relating to urban environments.
Beyond Raw Metrics: Measuring Citizens' Perception of Urban Heat
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Bordeaux Métropole, France
Bordeaux Métropole, France
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Society for the Promotion of Initiatives in Sustainable Development and Welfare (SOPISDEW)
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Bamenda, Cameroon
The project is also supporting the integration of beneficiaries through the organization of an urban regenerative farmer cooperative led by the IDPs. The cooperative supports land use advocacy for IDPs, collective marketing of agricultural produce and exchange between IDPs in the City of Bamenda.
Smart Irrigation Management for Parks and Cool Towns (SIMPaCT)
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Transport for NSW, Australia
SIMPaCT is Australia’s largest smart green infrastructure project. It uses a digital twin and machine learning to manage irrigation to maximise cooling. Air in the pilot park, spanning 42ha, is now up to 7°C cooler than its surrounds, improving the resilience, health and comfort of the community.
CATEGORY
MOBILITY AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in the field of mobility.
Bruntor Cargo Kick-Scooter
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Ikskile, Latvia
Bruntor Cargo: Electric 4-wheel kick scooter with modular cargo space for faster urban deliveries. The cost-effective and inclusive solution helps reduce the physical load of employees and increase productivity.
Deployment of a Carpooling Network for Daily Trips Integrated with Public Transport: Lyon Case Study
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Karos Mobility, Paris, France
In March 2023, the Lyon metropolitan area launched its short-distance carpooling service operated by Karos. The project aims at providing a customised solution to the city and implementing Karos playbook to build efficiently a carpooling network for daily commuting in partnership with the employers.
CATEGORY
GOVERNANCE & ECONOMY AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in the fields of governance and finance.
Let's Think Up Lublin Together! – How to Involve Citizens in the Process of Co-Creating the City?
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Lublin City Office, Poland
The central concept of the building the Lublin 2030 Strategy was involving city stakeholders in the decision-making process and thus giving them the power and responsibility for the future of the city, at the same time assigning them the role of real co-creators of the concept of city development.
BA Climate Action
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City Government of Buenos Aires, Argentina
BA Climate Action fosters dialogue between different sectors of society and the government through the data published on environmental management in clean energy, sustainable mobility, integrated waste management, and green jobs, in order to involve citizens in climate actions.
CATEGORY
LIVING & INCLUSION AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in relation to inclusive and sharing cities.
Chase a Better Tomorrow
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Kigali, Republic of Rwanda
The proposed project aims to provide comprehensive support and empowerment to single teenage mothers in Rwanda. It recognizes the unique challenges faced by these young women, particularly in terms of healthcare, education, and social integration.
Digital "Two Mountains" Theory
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Anji County, China
Adopting the Digital "Two Mountains" theory to create the most beautiful county and practicing the green smart "Anji Model".
CATEGORY
INFRASTRUCTURE & BUILDING AWARD
A'amer: Elevating Urban Living Through Integrated Citywide Services and Facility Management
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Saudi Aramco Dhahran Smart City, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Aramco Dhahran Smart City, Saudi Arabia
WINNER
Growing Together
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Kitchener, Canada
Growing Together tackles complex issues of growth and intensification by co-creating realistic growth scenarios using a 3D printed model. This model is integrated with a smart digital model, transforming community input into data, enabling the City to turn community feedback into measurable results.
Experiencing the Future First, Busan Eco Delta Smart Village
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Korea Water Resources Corporation, Deajeon, Republic of Korea
Smart Village is a demonstration complex where you can see future life and new technologies that will be implemented in Busan Eco Delta Smart City, a national pilot complex. Citizens actually live in the complex, directly use various smart technologies and provide feedback can do.
CATEGORY
SAFETY & RESILIENCE AWARD
Awarded to the most innovative and successful projects being implemented and developed in relation to urban safety and security.
Seamless Urban Resilience for Everyone, Everywhere and Everytime
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Gangnam-gu Office, Republic of Korea
Gangnam-gu Office, Republic of Korea
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Bangalore Safe City Project: Securing a City of 13+ Million Lives Using Video AI
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Awiros (Awidit Systems Pvt. Ltd.), Gurugram, India
Largest AI based Video Analytics in India covering 5500 cameras for ensuring citizen safety through a collection of multiple AI applications.
Citymesh - Saving Lives through Innovation
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Oostkamp, Belgium
With SENSE, a network of 70 Safety Drones is built to support the emergency services. Police and fire stations across Belgium will use a Drones-in-a-Box solution to gather critical information, so emergency services get a lot more info on the situation and can thus make better and faster decisions.
