Administered via the Department of Science and Technology’s Smart and Sustainable Communities Program, the initiative focuses on evidence-backed coverage making for catastrophe resilience, city planning, environmental conservation and neighborhood empowerment.
The flagship venture of the roadmap is the Mandaue Digital Twin, a digital mannequin of the town that integrates real-time knowledge on site visitors infrastructure, mobility, environmental circumstances and improvement tasks right into a single platform.
Ouano stated the digital twin is designed to mix geographic info techniques with the town’s present on-line map platform, CityMap.
The interactive, real-time system is anticipated to assist metropolis operations predict floods, handle site visitors movement and anticipate city challenges earlier than they happen.
The tasks underneath the Smart Mandaue Roadmap are scheduled to run via 2032. Beyond digital governance initiatives, the long-term plan targets financial improvement via regional entrepreneurship applications, public welfare tasks and resilient infrastructure, together with renewable power sources.
Mandaue is one in every of 152 native authorities models throughout the nation taking part within the science division’s expanded sensible communities program.
To assist the regional rollout, the division’s Central Visayas workplace launched the Smart Community Consortium, a multi-stakeholder platform uniting authorities businesses, academia, non-public industries and native communities.
Officials and trade companions formalized the consortium via a digital signing ceremony through the occasion.
Tristan L. Abando, regional director of the DoST in Central Visayas, stated nurturing these native connections permits easy conversations and shared issues to develop into sensible applications, applied sciences and options that make an actual distinction in individuals’s lives.