Abstract
The word “Smart Cities” is the new buzzword in every corner of the world. Many countries across the continents are trying to plant new smart cities or in the conversion process of existing cities. Bali (Indonesia) also seems to be in a conversion process of its Brown Field Cities. This research manuscript attempts to explore the Bali (Island) as a Smart Island regarding Smart Environment, Smart Economy, Smart Governance, Smart Mobility, Smart Living and Smart People dimensional perspective. This research manuscript has adopted a triangulation method for thematic narration since the study is qualitative and case study. The study explored that still Bali/Balinese cities is/are still baby stepping of smart cities plantations. There needs to be lot of work has to be done to become Smart Bali Island. The findings will help the Bali government to understand how far they could become full-fledged Smart Island by providing the Quality of Life to citizens and economic development of Bali
Highlights
For the author, it was the first Faculty Development Programme (FDP) by the FORE School of Management, New Delhi, organized outside India at Balinese Cities (Bali), Indonesia
There were many informal discussions about FDP during those six months. It was planned for Colombo and Kandy (Sri Lanka: Formerly Ceylon is an island nation south of India in the Indian Ocean), but it got changed to Bali (Indonesia) due to several reasons
The Airways is owned by Indonesian Lion Air Group with headquarters in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, and Malaysia
Summary
It was the first Faculty Development Programme (FDP) by the FORE School of Management, New Delhi, organized outside India at Bali, Indonesia. It was so curious, anxiety, and interesting because the author loves to travel foreign countries and try to understand the culture, customs, socio-economic and developmental conditions of that particular country along with the technological deployment penetration in their day-to-day life. The flight took off at 10.05 pm and transit flight from Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) at 7.35 am in the day and reached to the destination, Bali (Indonesia) at 10.45 am through Malindo Airways, Malindo Airways Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian full-service airline. It believes that the international exposure to the faculty will definitely a good platform, where they do different learnings about one country and understand the development of science and technology, social, economic expansions and especially the cultural dimensions, traditions, and customs etc. most importantly, faculty can understand the how different business dimensions in terms of marketing strategies, supply chain operations, managing the projects, IT/ ITeS, financial services and effective utilization of HR practices in the companies, can have a practice of international business physiognomics
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