Smart City Initiatives in India: Classification from System’s Perspective

The Government of India has listed 77 initiatives under its Smart City program. Such a huge number of interventions into a dynamic complex system necessitate a means to evaluate the dynamics of the consequences intended by each of the initiatives. As a precursor to exploring scenarios of the intended dynamics, we identify the systems structure resulting from the intended consequence of each initiative. Providing an effective insight into the smart city policy, we classify the initiatives with systems structures that seek to improve the achievement of goals and those that attempt to control the problems within the city. The implications and usefulness of this classification are explained as a first step to evaluate Smart City initiatives.