The actual issue is of data inclusion and that of the idea behind the standard itself. The initial ISO was formed to rank global cities across a various range of parameters and they did rank them. BIS in its part is right to follow the global standards, but it is not that state forward.
If you look into the indicators for transport, there are none for walkability, no zebra crossings, sidewalks, signals nothing. Now Indian cities in their race to become the number 1 city in India need not focus on walking at all, this is the exclusion which the standard might/will bring if not already present. Again with respect to sanitation and crime, I am going to quote Mr. Bezawada Wilson here. All the new toilets which are coming are dry toilets not connected to the sewage systems, now human waste being generated is being cleared by other humans who die in this process. NCRB doesn't record these deaths and govt. doesn't recognize this as a problem. Similarly though optional, the smart cities standards pose a grave threat in its current form and are advised not to be approved at all. I will share a hackpad with most of these comments with better suggestions at-least to improve it to whatever extent to be sent to BIS. If you have suggestions to improve, please do share here. Regards, Srinivas Kodali www.lostprogrammer.com On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Chitradeep Sengupta < [email protected]> wrote: > On an initial look at this standard, it appears to be a general standard > for any urban area or city. The theme & standards are general. A few > parameters like environment, telecommunications, etc. have been added. > Howevr I have not seen anything that indicates "smart response mechanisms" > or "smartness" of the city. > > Any comments would be appreciated. > > Thanks & Regards > > C. Sengupta > > On Monday, 3 October 2016 17:05:37 UTC+5:30, srinivas kodali wrote: > > Bureau of Indian Standards has released a draft smart cities standard > and is inviting comments for changes. > > > > > > http://www.bis.org.in/sf/ced/CED59(10000)_30092016.pdf > > > > > > > > It adopts the ISO 37120:2014 which was released 2 years ago. > Incidentally the main ISO standard evolved from a global partnership for > city indicators called the http://www.cityindicators.org/ and Bangalore > was already part of this effort. technically speaking Bangalore has adopted > the standard already. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Srinivas Kodali > > www.lostprogrammer.com\ > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
