Smart Cities project

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

You can also have a look of this video which shows how Barcelona as a Smart City works in our country.