Project information

• Category: Social Analysis, SDG
• Project URL: Report

The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation. During this period, before mass vaccination, it has also transformed cities into “smart” digital/virtual hubs but to respond to the increasing global challenges, the adaptation of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has become a popular topic and receiving attention from the public and academic sectors to ensure the sustainable development of the smart city during the digital transformation. Being a useful lens through which to view our social impact efforts and to tackle the global challenges, this paper adopts the SWOT-AHP method to review the digital transformation impact on the smart city in relation to the SDG 8-”Decent work and economy growth”, SDG 9-”Industry, innovation, and infrastructure”, and SDG 11-”Sustainable cities and communities”. This paper focuses on evaluating the potential and robustness of the digital transformation impact on smart cities by targeting the ‘Strengths’ and ‘Opportunities’ for the AHP pairwise comparison. After conducting the pairwise comparison between five strength factors and five opportunity factors, by correlating the results towards the three SDGs targets, the future development of the smart cities as well as their transformation of digital infrastructures are ensured in term of decent works, innovative, and sustaining in building resilience cities and communities