You have 2 options for A3, and please just choose only one based on your preference:
Option 1 Smart City: Business Proposal of New ITs for Smart Vancouver City
If you are newly hired Vancouver city CIO today (Dec 16, 2020), the COVID-19 pandemic is still prevailing, and the social distancing has become a local law and social norm in our home city: Vancouver. However, here are some good news: 5G is finally coming to Vancouver, 5G is driving massive IoT innovation and adaption and self-driving vehicles are also creeping into our city . Thus, it seems that Smart City presents our new hope and an excellent business opportunity for Vancouver and her citizens including us in the next new decade.
As a new Vancouver City CIO, Please apply all potential new ITs which you have just learnt from this course, including 5G, IoT, AR/VR, Cloud Computing, 3D printing, Big Data, AI, Robotics, and Blockchain, and propose some highly promising smart-city pilot projects for Smart Vancouver City by learning from previous smart-city cases to tackle your home-city real issues.
More specifically, you are required to identify minimum 5 new IT solutions or called smart-city pilot projects and describe their potential applications in smart Vancouver city.
Please note that I am not looking for a bullet list of technologies; rather, I am looking for an in-depth discussion of this potential IT and practical applications for business problem-solving. Please also explain How would you evaluate the success of the recommended initiatives (e.g. KPIs-key performance indicators); How would you measure success once the implementation is up and running; What are Key Success Factors (KSFs), such as Gov Funding, Tech Partners, Citizen Engagement, Privacy, Price/Affordability, and Inequality for such a smart-city project?
Option 2 Smart Agriculture: Business Proposal of New ITs for Smart Saskatchewan Agriculture
Saskatchewan is proud to be the Canadian largest agricultural province and one of the world’s food producers If you are newly hired Saskatchewan provincial CIO today (Dec 16, 2020), please apply all potential new ITs which you have just learnt from this course, including 5G, IoT, AR/VR, Cloud Computing, 3D printing, Big Data, AI, Robotics, and Blockchain, and propose some highly promising smart-city pilot projects for Smart Saskatchewan Agriculture by learning from previous smart-city cases to tackle your home-city real issues.
More specifically, you are required to identify minimum 5 new IT solutions or called smart-agriculture pilot projects and describe their potential applications in smart Agriculture province.
Please note that I am not looking for a bullet list of technologies; rather, I am looking for an in-depth discussion of this potential IT and practical applications for business problem-solving. Please also explain How would you evaluate the success of the recommended initiatives (e.g. KPI – key performance indicators); How would you measure success once the implementation is up and running; What are Key Success Factors (KSFs), such as Gov Funding, Tech Partners, Farmer Engagement, Privacy, Price/Affordability, and Inequality for such a smart-agriculture project?
