Experts predict the world’s urban population will double by 2050. To handle this large-scale urbanization, we’ll need to find new ways to
manage complexity, increase efficiency, reduce expenses, and improve
quality of life. And smart cities are finding solutions to it. What is a Smart City?
ACTORS NET
Long-term insights based on comprehensive data analysis, followed up
through efficient daily management, help a city stay vital and safe for
its citizens and businesses.
These proposals have been driven by multiple stakeholders and in various social and political arenas.
The changes in our globalised world and their consequences on the
institutions are undoubtedly resulting in ever-increasing exposure to various social actors. I have made an analysis of a Smart Cities project (http://www.slideshare.net/olga.gil/smart-cities-report-uam-coit-2014) in order to have a map of their real dimension and complexity.
The actors have influence on public decision making and outcomes at the local, national
and international levels in an environment that recognises them as competent social actors. This analysis suggest that on this new institutional organization structure, social actors, have the tools to analyze data for better decisions,
anticipate problems to resolve them proactively and coordinate resources
to operate effectively inside their cities.
Each of the social agents must carry out a decisive role amidst these ever more complex circumstances. it is also important to focus on social actors, the people, their identities and the non-state relationships within societies.
Smart Cities project makes the possibility to foster the participation of social actors including artists and creators in planning, decision-making and activities of participation.
Social actors participating in
these local development programmes have engaged in collective
consultation on the planning, implementation and evaluation processes.
EVALUATION PROCESS
How do Smart cities evaluate the policy implementation?
Evaluating the policies to deal with a social
problem is an important step in the Public Policy Analysis process. Analyzing both the
advantages and disadvantages of existing policies can suggest what parts
of the current policy should be kept or strengthened, and what parts
should be changed.
The study of the analysis shows that evaluating the problem from a global perspective we can focus in four indicators.
A. Tecnology
-high tech-reliability
-I+D
-Value of money that has been used up to produce it: Cost
B. Economy
-Economic benefits compared with costs, for example on trucking
-Investment costs
-Index: IPC, IBEX 35, PIB, Lerner, ECO 10.
C. Social
-Improvements of public works
-Index: GINI, Human Development Index, Press Freedom Index, Gender Parity Index, Human Poverty Index
D. Enviroment
-Enviromental economy
-Use of alternative transport (bicycles)
-Index:Diversity index
