Create
At this stage, you will learn how to secure funding, seek approvals, engage community, and deliver smart place projects for data-driven insights and decision making.
Goals of this stage
By now, you should have:
- an understanding of your place-based problems that need solving, and outcomes you want to achieve
- a list of potential solutions and a plan to deliver them
- defined benefits and potential costs, with a cost-benefit analysis.
During the create stage, you will need to:
- secure funding to deliver your project(s)
- secure approvals to proceed with your project, including any planning approvals
- procure solutions and deliver digital and physical infrastructure
- support your organisation to use the insights to drive decision making.
Continuing to engage with your community
Engaging customers and stakeholders during the design stage is essential to helping you understand:
- the data that may exist to support your solutions
- how well your planned solutions meet stakeholder needs
- the level of support you have for new approaches and any stakeholder concerns.
Refer to involving your community for more guidance.
SmartNSW Case Study Library
Technology and data solutions are helping make our cities and towns more liveable. Read about projects and pilots supporting this stage.
