SETTING UP THE STAGE FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY: INTERNATIONAL AND UKRAINIAN CONTEXT. THE ROLE OF SMART SOLUTIONS Cover Image

SETTING UP THE STAGE FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY: INTERNATIONAL AND UKRAINIAN CONTEXT. THE ROLE OF SMART SOLUTIONS
SETTING UP THE STAGE FOR SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY: INTERNATIONAL AND UKRAINIAN CONTEXT. THE ROLE OF SMART SOLUTIONS

Author(s): Anna Pozdniakova, Iryna Velska
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Economic development, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Centrum Badań i Innowacji Pro-Akademia
Keywords: Smart Sustainable city; ICT; sustainability; digitalization; Smart Solution; co-creation;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the key steps taken by different cities worldwide and gathered into a clear step-by-step roadmap that can be useful for emerging smart cities. The Roadmap covers three main stages as we see them during the process of development: preparation, formation and spreading stages. We reveal how this is incorporated in the Ukrainian context. Our analysis of smart city solutions from all over the world (based on the BeeSmartCity database) showed that the tech component on its own is not enough to overcome urban challenges within different domains (environment, economy, government etc.), as we see each of the solutions has a human component involved in a form of knowledge generation and sharing, different forms of co-creation and partnership etc. Thus, ICTs are a required but not a sufficient element of building successful citizen-friendly and resilient cities.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 13-24
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English