Analyse of Smart City Concept as Supporting the Government Information Disclosure Case Study: Bandung Smart City : Proceeding International Conference on Transformation in Communication (ICOTIC) November 2015

Smart City is a concept for development, implementation, and implementation of technology that is applied to a region (especially urban) as a complex interaction between the various systems inside (Pratama, 2014). This concept became very hot topic in the community, especially for big cities in Indonesia, one of which is Bandung. Smart City concept was first proposed by the Mayor of Bandung Ridwan Kamil with multiple dimensions of one is Government (Smart Government). The ultimate goal is to better serve the public through the disclosure of information. Basically, according to Glenny (2008) said “government communication as one-way communication from the government to the delivery of information to the public”. This one-way communication that often lead to debate in which there will be no feedback from the community that creates an enormous amount of information that is not transparent. This paper was made with the aim of showing that through the concept of smart city with Smart Government dimension, can answer the problem in terms of the openness of government information. Paper is made by the method of in-depth description and discussion based on the existing literature. Keywords: Smart City, Government Communication, Bandung Smart City