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July 2014
PwC India
The Smart City perspective
About PwC
PwC (www.pwc.com), one of the world’s largest professional services organisations, has helped its clients build value, manage risk and improve
performance for over 154 years.
PwC provides industry-focused
assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for its clients and their stakeholders.
Drawing on the knowledge and skills of more than 184,000 people in 157
countries, PwC is the service provider of choice to the largest, most prestigious companies in the world.
We specialise in the areas of project management and co-ordination,
institutional reforms, capacity building, performance evaluation over a wide range of industries. Our locally and international experience spans both the public and private sectors, including implementation of Information,
Communication and Technology (ICT) systems for enhancing our clients’
performance. Our Global Government Consulting practice has assisted several governments around the world.
Government & Public Sector, PwC India
Our Government and Public Sector (G&PS) practice, in India, combines the best of technology-led government consulting and IT implementation in the government & public sector units, providing our customers with an option to have a true Transformation Partner for their ‘change’ agenda.
With a 300+ strong dedicated team and extensive domain expertise, the G&PS practice continues to add new clients to its portfolio and deliver value across all service lines.
We help our Government and Public Sector clients navigate through the
complex maze of reforms. We enable them to improve public services delivery and improve operational excellence leveraging technology. Our team provides end-to-end services from strategy development to technology implementation to post-implementation impact assessment of projects and initiatives.
Our key service lines
Strategy Development
Transformation Process Management
Government Process Reengineering (GPR)
Program & Project Management
Capacity Building and Change Management
e-Government Design
Project design including PPP
Bid Process Management
Risk Management & Quality Assurance
Technology Management
Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and Impact Evaluation
Our key domains
Citizen identity Citizen
services Smart City Passport &
Immigration Transport
Management Local
Government Government IT
Infrastructure Tax Administration &
Compliance City –
Security &
Surveillance Land Records Social Welfare &
Security Disaster Management
Digital Governance
Government Enterprise Architecture
Independent Verification &
Validation
Government Process Automation
Technology Implementation
Management Information System
Implementation
Document Management &
Digitisation Public procurement
Our Smart City proposition
India is going through major shifts. Megatrends such as Rapid Urbanisation, Resource scarcity, etc are demanding innovative strategies across the economy for Government to provide smart governance to its citizens, by addressing local challenges affecting the citizens' in their daily lives. In line with PwC’s purpose of ‘building trust in society and solving complex problems’ PwC india has developed a comprehensive smart city solution called ‘Smart Local
Governance Platform’, a modular and comprehensive solution, creates meaningful structured data from the vast siloed data available with local governments and across the social media, and assists urban planners in
enforcing solution parameters though appropriate governance models, thereby, achieving a truly smart and sustainable city.
More about the platform can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFQUaBSSZrk
Presently we are in an urban century, which means that worldwide people living in urban areas are far more than living in rural areas. This urbanization trend has increased multifold in 20th century and has accelerated since. However, the alarming growth of urban population has raised concerns on the support system their cities can offer.
Cities are stretched to the limit, struggling to provide basic urban services; viz. cities have started experiencing the socio-economic challenges of unemployment and inadequate housing. Traffic congestion and pollution continue to increase as overcrowding has become endemic.
Need of Smart Cities
The smart city concept can be looked as a
framework for implementing a vision of advanced and modern urbanization. This vision envisages achievement of three goals – social equitability, economic viability, and environmental
sustainability. Social equitability is based on the principle of inclusion; there is no discrimination in access to benefits across population segments.
Economically viable solutions are those that are financially self-sustaining. Environmental sustainability ensures the preservation of the environment for future generations.
Smart City Concept
Our Smart city service offerings
Advisory services for smart city development
Assessment of cities on “Smart parameters”
Smart City framework design
Identification of Services to be selected for smart city implementation and benchmarking the same on global best practices
Analysis and assistance in finalisation of various technology options for smart city
Designing PPP modelling for smart city implementations
Smart city Governance framework design and implementation
Drafting of Legislations for Smart city
ICT master planning for smart city set up
Assistance in smart city solution procurements
Program Management services for smart city solutions
Benchmarking of existing cities to convert them into smart
Our experience – A snapshot
A STRONG GLOBAL
Canada
Smart metering strategy and business case, grid modernisation vision, procurement and negotiations, and financial modelling for a major utility
Germany
Advising on implementation of smart metering and
implementation of IT solutions for smart metering. Issued sector survey – ‘State of realisation and strategic implications for the German utility market’.
Austria Supporting the Austrian government in development of smart metering regulation.
Netherlands Smart metering programme business case analysis and development.
Australia
Currently assisting development of a consistent national
framework for the rollout of smart metering infrastructure across the Australian electricity market to small customers
France
Smart metering deployment analysis in order to secure internal and legal reporting production and
publication.
India
Assist Government / Cities in
Implementation of Urban reforms, surveillance systems, transport reforms, citizen service delivery, advanced metering in distribution
Kazakhstan
Assist Government in end to end consultancy for Smart city solution for the city of Astana.
United Kingdom Smart metering business case development and modelling experience.
Mergers and acquisitions experience within the metering landscape.
. United States
Smart metering implementation programme and transformation management including regulatory support, risk management, scheduling support, process design and related CIS upgrade and implementation.
