Category FAQs Search : Smart City
Question: Wicked Problems of Smart Cities
Answer: As a policy recommendation, we urge urban practitioners and policy makers to be more meticulous
in making the digital smart city more humane and resilient. Designers of SCs should strive to build
redundancy into the options affecting people’s daily affairs in the digital city, and avoid situations where
non-choice default technologies become too dominant. Creating more inclusive cities (i.e., ‘socially
smarter’ cities) should start with safeguarding alternatives for people that are digitally marginalized,
e.g., elderly people and individuals that, for various reasons, cannot, or are unwilling to, use digital
technologies. Since we do not know beforehand which technological solutions hold the most potential,
we need to accelerate the development of alternatives to the smartphone-maneuvered society. Such
alternatives can include anything from the upkeep of analog alternatives such as cash, tokens, keys,
or similar physical devices, to digital alternatives, such as credit cards. Since various technological
solutions will produce different blends and allocations of social goods and ills, society as a whole need
to actively nurture redundancy in the name of democracy
(Source: MDPI, 23 Mar 2020)
Source Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/2/4/31