Smart City: How Do We Understand?
Abstract
Abstract
A smart city is a rising and multidisciplinary domain. It has been defined as effective use of
information and communication technologies (ITCs) which enhance urban life in terms of
quality of life, governance, institution, economy and mobility. A smart city is an urban region
which is highly advanced in terms of infrastructure, real estate, communication and market
visibility. In smart city, information technology is the main infrastructure and the source for
providing essential services to residents. In the year 2015, India launched the program of
smart cities which is urban lead economic growth. Many argue that smart cities bring positive
change in social and economic life by adopting ITCs in planning and execution. In the last
recent year, India introduced many programs to transform the cities and took many initiatives
to provide better services to urban residents, like, e-governance has been a major step taken.
Despite so many efforts, Indian cities face a lot of crisis such as financial, technological as
well as implementing governance. Smart cities comprised of three essential components viz.
technology, people and institution. There is no significant reference of institution and people
in order to build smart cities; their main focus is on technological driven method, because
technology is considered as a crucial factor for transforming cities into smart. It is good to
use technology for fast solution of problem, but again question arises here that where we
locate technology and at what level and how we consider smart city? The neoliberal pushes
for smart cities in advance form of capitalist system. This neoliberal system shows how
resources have been exploited by a small group of big companies and how a large
organization becomes larger and small ones become smaller. In smart cities, technologies are
enforced into communities without accessing their fundamental needs. On the other side, it
may be said that smart cities are a modern form of imperialism.
Keywords: Neoliberal, smart city, technology
Cite this Article
Uttam Singh. Smart City: How do We
Understand? Current Trends in
Information Technology. 2017; 7(2):
23–28p.
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