Abstract:
As a result of increased global concern about sustainability and climate change issues; developed Countries committed to finding techniques to conserve resources and achieve a balanced development. Achieving such goals requires more efficient and responsive urban management tools. Accustomed tools are ineffective to enabling cities to achieve such goals. Since 1990, global awareness has been directed towards using ICT in urban management. Creating a smart self-organizing system to manage and monitor cities' performance can accelerate improving of economic competitiveness, sustainability and quality of life. Egypt has an ambitious strategy: Egypt's 2030 vision for achieving sustainability and improving the quality of life. while, current urban management systems cannot accomplish such tasks. Therefore, this paper aimed to develop a conceptual model for a GIS-based urban management tool that enabling Egyptian cities to achieve Egypt's vision 2030. To achieve this goal the researcher relied on: 1) Recognizing the city's self-organizing system and identifying the role of geographic information systems in managing the urban transformation process and monitoring the city's performance; 2) Evaluating the capability of key performance indicators that were developed to measure the achievement of Egypt's 2030 vision. To achieve the first goal, a systematic literature review was conducted; while to achieve the second goal, KPIs of Egypt's 2030 vision were assessed with using strategic objectives/KPIs matrix as well as using comparative analysis with international evaluating systems. The contribution of this paper is twofold: 1 - Theoretical contribution that built the bridge between the theory of self-organizing system and the management of cities; 2- Practical contribution represented by: a) the conceptual model, which helps in understanding the components of the smart system for monitoring and evaluating the performance of cities, and the relationship between them; and b) The evolved list of KPIs that track the city's performance in the six domains of city (economy, environment, mobility, living, community, and governance), to ensure achieving desired goals of Egypt's 2030 vision.