Smart Communities

Science, technology and innovation are helping to create a diverse Queensland economy powered by bright ideas. To do this we need to ensure the State attracts and retains the world's best scientists, researchers and professionals.

The Smart Communities initiative takes a new approach to get the most from knowledge and infrastructure investments. Smart Communities is about connecting technology and society by mixing the community and knowledge-based businesses with universities, research institutes and hospitals. The vision is to create places where people want to live, and where businesses and innovation will thrive. By attracting innovative businesses, Queensland will continue to create job opportunities and sustainable employment.

By linking our people, institutions and businesses together within Smart Communities, each can collaborate and share skills, experiences, develop new approaches and inspire fresh thinking. In turn, this will strengthen Queensland's capacity to be globally-competitive and sustain innovation-led growth into the future.

The Smart Communities initiative is being progressed on the premise that success will be founded on four key building blocks, namely people, place, economics and leadership. Linking these building blocks will create a vibrant, attractive and successful Smart Community development.

Smart Communities builds on the recommendations of the Smart State Council's Smart Cities report and the framework of the South East Queensland Regional Plan. It will also be a key contributor to the Toward Q2: Tomorrow's Queensland vision and drive knowledge-based economic growth, job creation and industry innovation.

The smart communities pilot guide is a communication tool to inform people on smart community planning and development. This Guide is primarily targeted at policy makers, university and research institutions, planners and developers to provide more detail on the smart communitiesconcept, issues and trends as well as information to consider when planning developments.

Smart Communities pilot guide

• Introduction
• Context
• Guidance
• Implementation
• Further Reading

Current projects

Locations around Queensland that have been identified as potential Smart Communities.

• Brisbane Knowledge Corridor
• Townsville Hospital and James Cook University Campus Precinct
• Gold Coast University Hospital and Knowledge Precinct

• Sunshine Coast
• Queensland University of Technology - Carseldine Campus
• Griffith University Nathan / Mt Gravatt

Please note: this is not a definitive list of projects or opportunities in Queensland nor should it be interpreted as a commitment by the Queensland Government. Each project will need to be evaluated on a case by case basis and will be subject to the circumstances and priorities at the time.

Smart Communities' supporting sites

• Technology parks

Publications

• Brisbane Knowledge Corridor brochure