SMART CITY – MAKING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
SMART CITY – MAKING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Summary/Abstract: Smart cities are committed to sustainable and integrated urban development. Digital transformation offers cities and municipalities opportunities to move towards sustainability and promotes resource-friendly, needs-based solutions for meeting the key challenges of urban development. The main subject of the research refers to the presentation of digital technologies in the context of the bearer of digital transformation towards smart cities. Main goal of study was to research and present the importance of digital technology and digital transformation in smart city domain. The findings of literature review emphasise that digital transformation requires cities and municipalities to be open to new technologies, and to be aware of their broader values and goals in order to be able to apply those technologies with a long-term and considered view. Results of literature review stand out that core value lies in empowering people to make informed decisions in both the private and public domains and incorporates the smartness of citizens instead of referring merely to the deployment of smart technologies. Also it is important to emphasize the four guidelines ensuring that digital transformation is understood as the transition of cities into smart cities: digital transformation requires goals, strategies and structures; digital transformation requires transparency, participation and co-creation; digital transformation requires infrastructures, data and services; digital transformation requires resources, skills and cooperations.

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