Infrastructure and Computation in a Smart City as e-Government Contemporary Competence

Smart cities such as Moscow and Jakarta manifest rapidly updated design technologies, means of communication, new values, and communicative meanings. Moscow was one of the first to receive a certificate of successful implementation of international key performance indicators (KPIs) for smart, sustainable cities. About 330 online services made it possible to realize a number of valuable for the citizens’ projects base on people’s active social position like “Our City” as well as “Active Citizen” based on newly created government's online platform. Likewise, in agriculture in Indonesia, which still relies on human labor for processing, the technology has not been optimized for irrigation in rice fields or large plantations. However, the use of drone system technology (Drone technology) is done by PT. Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) carries out irrigation with automation technology. In Moscow, almost 20,000 access points to free unlimited Internet have been successfully started. One of the innovative IT product is Ruli (Drive) innovative service project as one of the Moscow Government's 18 state programs aimed at further developing infrastructure and computation in a smart city as e-government contemporary competence. In 2021, Indonesian Gojek made a big breakthrough by merging with one of the big e-commerce companies; Tokopedia amounted to 135.1 million users. The article analyzes the approach and results in the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in the governance process for providing access to information and services to the citizens, thus encouraging them to participate in the administrative smart city process. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.