Towards a smart city: The case of greater Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia

Government policies can be translated into technology opportunities to provide insights into new research directions for the advancement of the national Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure. In Malaysia, the government has outlined Greater Kuala Lumpur (KL) as one of the twelve National Key Economic Areas of the Economic Transformation Program (ETP) with the objective of transforming the capital city Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding municipalities into a vibrant and livable metropolitan area. In line with this effort, this paper transforms the Greater KL policy into technological opportunities as part of our initial investigation to provide a smart city framework tailor-made to the Malaysian context. The outcome of this investigation explores new research direction, and it is important for making future investment and strategic decisions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt in the literature to date to explore technology opportunities in government policy from the perspective of smart city.