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Question: Exploring the role of civilizational competences for smart cities development
Answer: The main result of our theoretical synthesis is that the literature still associates the smart city especially with its hard dimension, the highly developed and intelligent technologies, including ICTs (about two-thirds of the total number of articles), despite a growing number of studies dedicated to the soft, human and social capital component. The intangible, soft component – the human actor – plays an equally, if not even more important role, through mechanisms affecting all classical dimensions of smart cities (smart economy, people, governance, mobility, environment and living). Civilizational competences, soft skills or human-related characteristics of cities strongly influenced by culture (at national, regional, organizational and individual level) are crucial for the development of smart and competitive cities. Civilizational competences are grouped into four categories: enterprise culture, discoursive culture, civic culture and daily culture. If we want to make our cities smart, we need to develop these competences – first define them, then identify their antecedents or influence factors and measure them.
(Source: Emerald Insight, 08 Apr 2020)