How well do government-funded Wi-Fi zones work after their PR campaigns end?

I find it absurd that a government would consider coming up with something called a Smart City Mission. This automatically implies the presence of a place managed with some modicum of intelligence. And yet, when was the last time you looked around any part of your city and thought, 'That's an intelligent move by the government'? I think a less lofty objective and name - the Common Sense City Mission, for instance - would be more agreeable, simply because it's something our cities have to aspire to first.