Executive Summary: St. Mary's First Nation and City of Fredericton, New Brunswick

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Our original Challenge Statement that we created for our application is:

My city does not recognize me or connect me to what matters most; Fredericton will collaborate with First Nations to create an accessible, welcoming, supportive city for youth, newcomers, and an aging population, empowering everyone with a Personalized Inclusion Plan that connects people to create an exceptional quality of life.

Over the course of the finalist phase, we engaged further with stakeholder and residents, tested out concepts and ideas, and refined our Vision for our Smart Cities Proposal:

Fredericton & St. Mary's First Nation are collaborating to create an accessible, welcoming, supportive community, starting with youth, newcomers, older adults, and persons with mobility-related disabilities; recognizing what is important to individuals and connecting them to what matters most, empowering residents with personalized digital tools, data & technology that enable them to create an exceptional quality of life.

To achieve this vision, we're proposing to carry forward the main initiatives that we set out in our original application, including the Digital Fredericton transformation initiative, the Digital Community Hub (formerly Smart City Dashboard/Real-Time Census), as well as three other community initiatives: Doorable, Non-Profit Data Collaboration, and Road Home Digital Platform and Enablement.

The initiatives we're proposing will offer more meaningful ways for community Engagement. We're using human-centred design to involve residents throughout the process of designing solutions, tailoring them to their unique needs. We've developed a unique model to discover who our residents are, gain deep insights about their aspirations and challenges, generate ideas for solutions, and co-create and test solutions with the community. We've piloted this approach with the key initiatives during the finalist phase, which generated key insights guiding this proposal and leading to the creation of four prototypes.  We've also widely and deeply engaged community stakeholders throughout our Smart Cities Journey, developing partnerships and working relationships to deliver the initiatives in this proposal.

We've scoped out each of the key initiatives in Project Management, defining the goals and deliverables and resource requirements, while using an overall, coordinated approach for procurement, communications, risk management, and monitoring/managing issues.

We built our Performance Measurement plan across three strategic areas, aiming ultimately to achieve our vision to through three long-term outcomes:

• Developing a detailed community profile with richly defined segments and needs.
• Providing more efficient and targeted services that address needs, working in an end-to-end environment that puts resident engagement first.
• Connecting people to what matters, increasing inclusion through the uptake of personalized digital tools.

We've developed the deliverables and performance milestones that will trigger progress payments of the prize money. We've also outlined an approach to monitor, report and evaluate progress on performance at monthly and quarterly intervals.

We have crafted a Technology architecture to achieve these outcomes, creating new user experiences and rich data sets and augmenting the workforce. We've designed the architecture across layers – from sensors and edge devices through to smart algorithms. Our technology selections are guided by principles to ensure interoperability, extensibility, scalability and replicability to achieve and sustain our technology vision. The technology architecture will be able to respond to rapidly changing technology environments. The proof of our technology is in the prototypes. We've demonstrated all layers of the technology architecture in action to provide sharply tailored personalized experiences using connected technology and data.

In terms of Governance, our Fredericton Smart Cities Task Force will oversee the implementation of our Smart Cities proposal. The Task Force includes representatives from City of Fredericton. St. Mary's First Nation, committee leads for the main initiatives and as well as stakeholders to provide academic, commercial and social oversight. The City and St. Mary's also intend to enter into a Friendship Accord, which will build on the governance structure to offer a framework for continued collaboration on this and other broader community issues of mutual interest. We have plans for program administration and implementation and have developed a number of partnerships with stakeholders to deliver our proposal outcomes.

We went through an intensive process to develop a plan for Data and Privacy, particularly as it relates to protecting personal information. We've completed a PPIA that examined each of the main initiatives in our proposal and outlines the risks related to privacy and planned measures to minimize those risks and comply with privacy legislation and standards. We've summarized those risks and plans to protect data and privacy in this proposal.

To meet the Implementation Phase Requirements, we've outlined the approach that we will use for consultation between St. Mary's First Nation and City of Fredericton, as well as our intention to provide employment and/or procurement opportunities for youth/ Indigenous peoples, small-to-medium-sized social enterprises, and women under the Community Employment Benefits initiative.

As part of the Financial plan, leveraging other sources of revenues and investment to increase the impact of the initiatives, including investments from the City of Fredericton, its wholly-owned subsidiary e-Novations Comnet Inc., and in-kind investments from technology partners. We used similar experiences, industry standards, estimates from vendors for specific items, agile development, and detailed cost breakdowns of project subcomponents to estimate costs and minimize finance risk.