| Academia | An intelligent and governable urban system that redesigns administrative practices and procedures based on highly intelligent ICT and social networks, shares knowledge and information among governments, businesses, local residents and local communities, and provides a public platform for continuous productive and democratic value-added transactions. |
| A new city that accumulates and judges information for urban operation using ICT technology and operates urban infrastructure in a planned and responsive manner with information and communication technology as an operating system to improve the quality of life of urban people. |
| A city that has established an intelligent governance and eco-friendly urban foundation that can solve urban problems using sustainable digital technology means from the perspective of citizens and constantly create new growth engines that improve the quality of life. |
| A smart city is a city that uses intelligent information technology as a core technology in a series of processes to improve citizens’ quality of life by proactively identifying various administrative needs of citizens and presenting the most efficient solutions through democratic decision-making processes. |
| Research | A smart city is a sustainable urban platform that efficiently manages assets and resources based on urban infrastructure built by converging construction and information and communication technology and provides services created through citizens’ participation in policy design and experiments. |
| A smart city provides safer and more convenient services by converging various information and communication technologies to improve the quality of life of urban residents. To this end, it is necessary to establish the latest information and communication infrastructure and provide new urban-based services using various technologies. In this process, equal universal services should be provided to all residents living in the city without discrimination. |
| A city that uses intelligent information technology to respond sensitively to the needs of its citizens and to improve the quality of life of its citizens by innovatively solving urban problems. |
| Industry | It refers to the integration of intelligent information technology throughout the city. In other words, it can be said that it is a city where intelligent information technology is applied to all fields such as administration, economy, and education as well as buildings, transportation, and the environment. Intelligent information-related technologies are permeated into citizens’ lives, including the physical environment. |
| It can be defined as a city that solves urban problems and improves residents’ quality of life by using the technologies of the 4IR such as big data, network, and artificial intelligence. If the existing city was a method of expanding resource consumption and infrastructure construction to solve urban problems, intelligent cities can be said to be cities that use the 4IR technology to maintain existing urban infrastructure while increasing efficiency and solving problems. |
| Smart cities connect virtual and real worlds based on intelligent information technology represented by the 4IR to continuously simulate and derive real cities from digital virtual cities to help citizens do what they want and improve city management capabilities. |