Top gong for Council's Smart City Strategy
A Wyndham City Strategy that outlines how new and innovative technologies will be embraced to make cities better, has been recognised as the best in Australia and New Zealand.
The Wyndham Smart City Strategy 2019-2024, released in June this year, won the prestigious award at the Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand 2019 awards ceremony Thursday night (31st October).
Smart City Portfolio Holder, Cr Aaron An, said the strategy garnered wide praise and involved working with universities, businesses and other government agencies.
“It’s a fantastic honour to be recognised for our achievements and progress we look forward to continuing our work with the community and partners to transform Wyndham into a Smart City,” Cr An said.
Cr An said the Strategy was a key step in designing the vision for our future and the steps to get there, some of which have already been rolled out in Wyndham.
“Our community first approach to using digital technologies is a blueprint for transforming growing communities into modern, smart cities,” Cr An said.
The Strategy recognises the uniqueness required across intelligent planning, innovative services, and smart technology to create liveable and connected communities and neighbourhoods in a growing city.”
“We are embracing new and emerging technology, data and innovation to create one of Australia’s most liveable and prosperous cities.”
“It also demonstrates and outlines how Council will work towards solving challenges such as transport and congestion, our local environment and the use of emerging and smart technology to modernise and improve services such as parking, community engagement, waste collection and infrastructure management.”
“We have already introduced smart technologies to improve planning and capital outcomes through virtual reality, make our customer service more accessible through multilingual virtual assistants, as well as projects like the smart bins, smart BBQs, online capital works dashboard, the list goes on – and this is just the beginning.”
You can read the strategy by heading to www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/smart-city-strategy
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2019 Supporting local sports clubs
2019 State government announced Hoppers Crossing Level crossing will be removed by 2022
2019 Chairing Smart City Portfolio committee meeting
2019 More investment, more local jobs
2019 Supporting Children and Young Family
2019 Truganina Dohertys Creek P-9 College start class
2019 Building Blocks Program is a great community development initiative started by council. Both Walter and myself participated in this great program.
2019 Discuss local community issues with local residents.
2018 Avalon Airport International Terminal completed
2018 Sanctuary Lakes Christmas Carols. Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers.
2018 Sanctuary Lakes Christmas Carols. Thanks to all the organisers and volunteers.
2018 Supporting local community event
2018 Speaking at Wyndham Tech School. I am a strong supporter for better education in the west.
2018 Supporting young entrepreneurs
2018, Wyndham chess tournaments
2018, Truganina East Integrated Learning Centre construction start
2018, Young Scientist of Wyndham Contest
2018, GovHack Wyndham
2018, Wyndham Learning Festival
2018, More investment, more local jobs
2018, Supporting Western United for a new A-League license
2018, Chairing Smart City Portfolio committee meeting
2018, Support Avalon to become Victoria's second International Airport.
2018, Williams Landing sports pavilion construction start
2017 Wyndham Learning City Portfolio Meeting
Dec 2017, it's great the state government announced the Growing Suburbs Fund. We still need more investment in infrastructure to catch up with the fast growing population.
Nov 2017, supporting small local businesses
Sep 2017, team Wyndham working hard on weekend.
Aug 2017, participate in community tree planting event.
July 2017, for the first time GovHack event was officially hosted by council.
