Smart Community Strategy

Objective

To create a community that is economically, environmentally and technologically efficient supporting Council’s vision to develop a prosperous and progressive community that we are proud to call home.

Smart Cities and Communities

A Smart City utilises data and technology to create efficiencies, improve sustainability, creates economic development, and enhances quality of life factors for people living and working in the city.

For the purposes of the Mid-Western Region, we have adopted the language of Smart Community to encapsulate the unique geographical and economic basis of the region.

A Smart Community Strategy provides direction for Council and the community to ensure focus on relevant initiatives that provide the most appropriate benefits to the community both now and into the future. This Strategy establishes the roadmap to guide and accelerate smart community action in the Mid-Western Region.

The Smart Community Strategy describes a portfolio of services that can be implemented to transform and improve the way residents, visitors, businesses and governments interact with their environment in the course of their lives. Smart Communities utilise information and communications technology to connect people, processes, data and things in ways that make the community more liveable, workable and sustainable.