Urban data are basic building block of urban planning and management and tends to become a decision-making tool for administrations, public and private bodies and local and regional authorities, which use them increasingly Manage their activities on a daily basis and improve the effectiveness of their actions. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the importance of collecting and analyzing all the information that is available to the public. , To transform the city and to build a smart city. This would involve building and sharing the same data as an asset, processing, anonymization, security and data storage of the entities involved. Digital is a strategic lever for transforming cities and territories. YUSIIP, Yaoundé, Yaoundé.
1 - Context of the YUSIIP project
The context of African cities in the South of the Sahara and the Cameroonian cities is marked by:
• A lack of resources (financial, management and technical staff, etc.);
• Inadequate consultation between the various stakeholders (ministries, government agencies, consultants, private and corporate bodies, universities, NGOs, associations, professionals, experts, managers, decision-makers, etc.);
• Scattered and not always reliable information. Indeed, urban actors could have at their disposal the most important set of information in their activities and on the territory; Unfortunately, this information is irrelevant, as these actors remain scattered, unrecognized, isolated and the information available under-used because they are difficult to access for other urban actors;
• A lack of statistics to monitor urban dynamics and to inform decision-making;
• A weak development of information systems, an essential link in the process of transforming rigid bureaucracies into learning organizations, capable of reacting quickly and solving crucial urban development issues.
Sustainable urban development involve rethinking (leadership, co-management), principles, structures, leadership, processes and territorial governance through the creation of "Smart Communities". Indeed, the objectives and problems encountered by the different urban actors are often similar. The sharing of experiences and data becomes an asset of success.
2 - The ambition of the YUSIIP project
The YUSIIP project aims to create a "smart community" around the data. Urban areas in urban planning and management in Yaounde. Urban areas and urban planning in Yaoundé. It would also contribute to the sharing of experiences, sharing and re-use of existing and future urban data.
The "Intelligent Community" will be able to:
- • Emphasize the central role of urban data in urban development by making it clear to the public and private actors that they "must accept their data in the common good".
- To put in place tools for crossing, analyzing and disseminating data that should guide the strategic choices in urban management and planning (example: YUSIIP).
- Organize coordination between the various public bodies and institutions involved in urban management at the territorial scale.
- Establish complementarities between the different urban actors involved.
- To make public actors work with private and associative actors.
- Build codes presenting the preservation and valorisation mechanisms.
- Establish or mobilize differentiated regulatory and financial tools.
- Address the challenges related to the introduction of GIS (institutional, organizational, technical) in urban management and planning.
- Initiate coordination of urban policies and investment choices.
It is a network of actors able to better exploit this skill set and generate high-quality urban data in order to optimize data management and urban development. The creation of such a community for collaboration and knowledge sharing among urban actors. The network will be organized according to the mode of operation best suited to the joint work of managers and experts in urban management and information. It is a non-hierarchical, self-organizing structure. The "Intelligent Community" is the common core of open innovation (Open Innovation), which involves identifying the obstacles that can be put forward in order to slow down the implementation of the sustainable urban development approach. The main obstacle identified concerns intellectual property. While many organizations and institutions remain strongly attached to this aspect of protecting their information assets (documentary, intangible), open innovation must go through a necessary sharing of these elements. It is therefore a matter for the various urban actors to dare to open their data outside their walls so that innovative researchers, startups and SMEs can derive value from it. The urban actor and its ecosystem will find this value in this co-creation of value. Thus, YUSIIP will be a real platform for knowledge federation for the good management of urban development. A collaborative, scalable and open platform. The data on-line are addressed to local and regional authorities, local development actors, government departments, experts and researchers. Digital is a strategic lever for transforming cities and territories. YUSIIP can be a starting point for a digital transformation strategy for the metropolis Yaoundé.
