Case M12: Ministry of Municipal Affairs – A Smart City Project Isn’t an Enterprise Architecture 💲

Sensors Were Installed. But City Governance Was Never Designed.

Part of the “One Government, One Anatomy” Review

This case is one of 19 ministries analyzed in ICMG’s enterprise architecture diagnostic across Middle Eastern governments.

From Qatar’s Ministry of Municipality, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs & Housing, to Dubai’s Smart Dubai Office, Abu Dhabi’s Department of Municipalities & Transport, and Bahrain’s Urban Planning & Municipal Affairs (under the Ministry of Works, Municipal Affairs & Urban Planning) — municipal modernization is underway across the region.

But what we found was this:

Smart city tech was deployed. But city governance was never architected.

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