Cauayan City is located in Isabela province, Cagayan Valley (Region II), Philippines, and serves as a regional centre for agriculture, trade, and innovation. It was formally included in the ASEAN Smart Cities Network (ASCN) in 2025, reflecting international recognition of its digital governance achievements. The city maintains a government-academia-industry collaboration model anchored in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Cauayan City was named the Philippines’ first ‘Smart City’ by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in 2015. Key innovations include free Wi-Fi across 65 barangays, a Citizen ID system, the ‘Cauayan City Connect!’ cashless payment app, a Digital Farmers Programme with IoT-based agriculture, and the BIRDSEED innovation incubator co-developed with Isabela State University and Singapore’s Temasek Polytechnic. The city now hosts iSCENE, the International Smart City Exposition and Networking Engagement.
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