Techno of Things

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk (Telkom) hope to implement framework Smart City in 20 large cities in Indonesia until the end of 2014.

The program Smart City is expected to be "IT enabler", download drive culture change, changing the human resources (HR) in order for faster responsiveness to technology.

Since Monday (18/8) yesterday, the first Smart City project had started to operate in the city of Makassar. With the optimization of the use of information technology systems to systems of Government (e-government) working environment is created, it is expected that effective, efficient, and transparent.

"This will be an active and quick interaction between Government and its citizens will be able to realize the good city governance and efficient," said Telkom's EGM Division Solution Convergence Achmad Sugiarto in his remarks in Jakarta, Wednesday (8/8).

Smart City programme in line with the vision of the new mayor of Makassar Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto to make smart city of Makassar. With a population of more than 1.8 million people, the rate of internet penetration in Makassar was more than 40 percent.

Telecommunications infrastructure such as fiber optics, Wi-fi, and 3 g/HSDPA broadband network to support keeps built. No wonder Makassar became one of the cities that received the Indonesia Digital Society Award 2014 from Telkom.

"Currently there are 5 Smart City application services that can be utilized by employees of the City Government as well as by the community through the Makassar http://makassartidakrantasa.com site," said Anto, a familiar call Achmad Sugiarto.

The first is an e-Service Office, which has been used by 137 users around the SEGWAY Makassar. e-Office eases Government correspondence tatakelola

digitally. By using the service, the use of paper can be trimmed, the risk of forgery of a letter is minimized, and all historical and log mail can be recorded with

Second is the E-Village which is already running in 11 subdistricts Panakukang. E-Kelurahanmempermudah management of administrative data on population.

For record keeping and administrative logging for a letter of reference, affidavits, and cover letter electronically created whose data is stored safely on the server and complete Telkom.

Third is the integrated health service ePuskesmas at 10 Clinics and health service of the city of Makassar. Through this service patients can register onlinemenggunakan NIK (Population Identity Number) before coming to the clinic.

EPuskesmas services also make the health service is getting termudahkan in monitoring public health data.

The fourth most interesting services: Makassar Not Rantasa. This is the media for people to pass on complaints to the Government to follow up directly. Start street lamps are broken, until the traffic lights dead.

Reports made through the community website or the Android application will be accepted directly related to the officer's immediate disolusikan.

The last service is Kuciniki (I see you), which is a location-based application to monitor the performance of the staff of the administration.

"Using the technology of U-track applications from Telkom, which is only activated in hours worked was originally going to be used for the head. The expectation in order for service of government officials Makassar city is getting better, "said Anto again.

He said, the implementation of the Smart City in Makassar will become an example for other cities in applying the concept of smart city.

"The utilization of ICT can accelerate economic growth in every city, and will be the solution to many problems of cities in the future," he said.

For 2014, Telkom could target parties implement this Smart City programme to 20 cities in Indonesia. The closest was Bogor, Banjarmasin and Balikpapan.