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A selection of resources recommended in the Smart City Toolkit.
IAPP, Privacy By Design.
- An overview of privacy by design, a design approach to embedding privacy in technology from the outset.
Office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Technology Fact Sheet: Smart Cities and your Privacy Rights, (April 2018).
- Brief overview of some informational privacy issues associated by smart city technologies, particularly sensor data.
Office of the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Planning for Success: A Privacy Impact Assessment Guide.
- Useful guide to planning and conducting a privacy impact assessment.
CIPPIC and McMaster University, Smart City Privacy.
- A guide to privacy issues and laws applicable to smart city approaches in Canada. Includes a geographic survey of smart city tools already employed in Canada as well as a statement of best privacy practices.
Privacy International, Smart Cities Resources.
- Reports, news analysis and other resources published by Privacy International, a leading privacy advocate.
Public Safety Canada - Public Safety has release a number of guides on infrastructure security.
- Fundamentals of Cyber Security for Canada’s Critical Infrastructure Community
- Mitigation Guidelines for Denial of Service Attacks
- Industrial Control System (ICS) Cyber Security: Recommended Best Practices
LSNetwork, Best Practices and Guides on IoT security in Smart Cities
- The Canadian Urban Institute has released a practical guide intended to assist municipalities, provinces and solution providers in developing Smart City Master Plans for Canadian communities, including key strategies for plan developmentand examples of best practices.
The Internet of Things Coalition Canada, Privacy and Security in the Internet of Things Era: IoTCC Best Practices Guidance
- The Internet of Things Coalition Canada report outlining privacy and security risks in IoT environments and providing best practice guidance for prevention and remediation.
CSA – Cyber Security Guidelines for Smart City Technology Adoption.
- This document provides guidelines for organizations planning the implementation of smart city technologies. It describes testing and assessments to consider in order to select the best and most secure vendors and technologies.
Ann Cavoukian and Mark Dixon, “Privacy and Security by Design: An Enterprise Architecture Approach”
- A 2013 paper on the fundamental approach to security-by-design for IoT technologies. The paper outlined the basic principles of embedding security into the design, build, testing, and maintenance stages of Enterprise Architecture.
Canadian Intellectual Property Office, “IP foundations series”
- Primer on intellectual property, particularly patents, trademarks and industrial designs in Canada.
Canadian Intellectual Property Office, “Plan your IP strategy”
- Summary of considerations when developing an IP strategy that is aligned with an organization’s goals, including commercialization, ownership and working with third parties.
“IP in business transactions: Canada overview”, (Practical Law)
- Overview of the various IP rights in Canada, licensing and assignment of such rights, and related issues in a M&A context.
Teresa Scassa, “Smart Cities: Data Ownership and Privacy Issues”
- A brief discussion of the ownership of data arising from smart cities and its alignment with principles of open government.
Smart Cities - A best Practices Guide for Building Our Future Cities, Canadian Urban Institute 2019 (smart city master planning guide) Short section on procurement (p32-33)
- A holistic guide for municipalities designing smart cities, this document lays out the phases required of a municipality in order to design a fully functioning smart city. The section of most interest to us is phase V where the smart city design is implemented. an earlier discussion to implement smart city procurement.
European Commission, Analysing the potential for wide scale roll out of integrated smart cities and communities solutions: Public Procurement models for SCC solutions, 2016
- This report is a comprehensive analysis of how different public procurement models impact smart city solutions. It describes the types of public procurement models (new and traditional) and then uses case studies to observe trends and make recommendations.
European Commission, Guidance on Innovation Procurement
- This document is created to assist municipalities in adopting innovation procurement. The document defines and establishes a need for innovative procurement followed by recommendations on creating a framework for adopting innovation procurement.
OpenNorth,Open Smart Cities Guide v1.0
- This Open Smart City Guide is intended to assist stakeholders participating in smart city projects. It includes guidance and examples of open procurement practices.
Sara Wilson, "Building Canada’s Low-Carbon Approach to Infrastructure Investments through Prioritization, Policy and Procurement Future Cities Canada", Evergreen 2017
- This resource concentrates on sustainable, green infrastructure initiatives. However, the innovative approach to procurement is a good model for smart cities as well. The report recommends using procurement as a proactive tool for sustainability. Encouraging bidders to innovate, submit bids that are low-carbon and working on creating a more flexible procurement process. The report also cites “Going Green: Best Practices for Sustainable Procurement”. It outlines how national policy frameworks can change to promote better public procurement. Matt Tim, “Procurement Process 101: The Stages in the Procurement Process”
Tim Matt, “What is the Difference Between Procurement and Purchasing?”
Municipal Innovation Exchange (MIX), MIX Municipal Innovation Procurement
- The MIX research report on challenges and opportunities for municipal innovation procurement provides insight to innovation procurement around the world and particularly focuses on Ontario cities as case studies to reflect those barriers and opportunities.
Guelph Civic Accelerator Case Study
- The Civic Accelerator report describes Guelph’s experiment in reimagining procurement by explaining the Civic Accelerator model, its goals, and how the model works in practice. The report is described to assist and inform other cities in innovating the process within an existing policy framework. The report shared key insights for successful implementation for a Guelph-like model, and included working within existing procurement regulations, as well as being strategic with government and local innovation partners to champion the reimagined model (see p12-17).