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a. The Case of India: Within the scope of the ‘Smart Cities Mission’
initiative launched in 2015, studies are being carried out for
modernizing urban life and improving the quality of life through the
use of information and communication technologies.
b. The Case of Singapore: Within the scope of the ‘Smart Nation’
initiative launched in 2014, urban planning and management
applications are conducted with the establishment of a national
sensor network and increasing the data storage capacity.
c. The Case of England: Within the scope of the ‘Innovate UK’ project
launched in 2012, it is revealed how information and communication
technologies will play a role in urban life with the participation of
different shareholders in 30 cities.
d. The Case Of The United States Of America: In the scope of ‘Smart
Cities’ initiative launched in 2015, it was mainly aimed to expand
the range of the applications of Internet of Things (IoT), and ‘Smart
Cities and Communities Framework’ was introduced as a result of the
studies performed in cooperation with public and private sector.
e. The Case of Türkiye: In the scope of ‘Smart Cities Strategy and
Feasibility Study Project’ launched in 2015 and conducted by the
Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, the goals were set such as
determining the environment and urbanization vision of the country,
expanding the field of use of technological opportunities, encouraging
the local administrations to develop smart city strategies, gathering
all shareholders in digital platforms in the management of cities. In
addition, starting from the target indicators of e-Transformation
Turkey Project (2003), the Government Emergency Action Plan (2003),
the Information Society Strategy Document (2006 – 2010), 10th
Development Plan (2014 - 2018), 2003 - 2023 Strategy Paper, Smart
Municipality Summits, Smart Cities Congress, Transformation to Smart
Cities Action Plan, Digital Europe Platform, the projects such as the
digital transformations targeted until the year 2025 (use of cloud
computing, data literacy, opening of master’s degree programs on
digital technologies, expansion of remote education models, etc.) can
be given as examples for the projects that are and/or will applied in
central and local levels where smart cities approach is adopted as well
as urban planning processes are realised.
Unlike the cities where smart city technologies are used and have achieved
success, there are many failed smart city applications around the world. When
these failed examples are examined in general, it can be clearly revealed that
they have certain common features. These features may be listed as such that

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