Resilient Smart City

Managing information is central to a smart city’s resiliency. The ontological framework reveals pathways to managing information in smart cities dealing with threats such as Ebola epidemic.

Ontology

Illustrative Pathways

• Architecture to acquire medical information by/from citizens for resistance to Ebola.
• Systems to process transportation information by communities for response to Ebola.
• Policies to distribute waste disposal information by professionals _{public health} for recovery from Ebola.
• Processes to interpret travel information to citizens for renascence from Ebola.

Glossary

• Smart: Capable of intelligent sense and resilience through management of information.
  • Structure: The structural elements required to manage information to sense and resile intelligently.
    • Architecture: The architecture to manage information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Infrastructure: The physical and virtual infrastructure to manage information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Systems: The computer, social, and paper-based systems to manage information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Services: The computer, social, and paper-based services to manage information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Policies: The policies of stakeholders on managing information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Processes: The stakeholder processes to manage information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • People: The people responsible for managing information by/from/to stakeholders.
  • Function: The functional elements required to manage information to sense and resile intelligently.
    • Acquire: The capability to acquire information by/from stakeholders.
    • Store: The capability to store information by/from stakeholders.
    • Retrieve: The capability to retrieve information by/from stakeholders.
    • Process: The capability to process information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Interpret: The capability to interpret information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Translate: The capability to translate information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Distribute: The capability to distribute information by/from/to stakeholders.
    • Protect: The capability to protect by/from stakeholders.
  • Information: The information required by/from/to stakeholders to sense and resile intelligently.
    • Medical: Medical information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Legal: Legal information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Geographic: Geographic information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Public health: Public health information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Cultural: Cultural information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Transportation: Transportation information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Travel: Travel information for stakeholders’ resilience.
    • Waste disposal: Waste disposal information for stakeholders’ resilience.
      • Medical: Medical waste disposal information.
      • Human: Human waste disposal information.
• Resilient City: A city capable of rebounding quickly through its sense and resilience.
  • Stakeholders: Those affecting and affected by Ebola.
    • Citizens: The citizens of the city.
    • Professionals: The professionals of the city.
      • Medical: The medical professionals of the city.
      • Public health: The public health professionals of the city.
    • Communities: The communities of the city.
    • Institutions: The institutions of the city.
    • Businesses: The businesses of the city.
    • Governments: Federal, State, and Local governments.
  • Resilience: The stages of resilience of the city.
    • Resistance: Resistance of the city to Ebola.
    • Response: Response of the city to Ebola.
    • Recovery: Recovery of the city from Ebola.
    • Restoration: Restoration of the city after Ebola.
• Renascence: Renascence of the city after Ebola.

Related Links

Managing a Smart City’s Resilience to Ebola: An Ontological Framework