Category FAQs Search : Smart City
Question: Smart city, smart administration and sustainible development
Answer: The use of new technologies in public administration which get introduced being dictated not only by the real needs for them but also by the demands of the international community (EU etc) pose the threat of being turned into an "iron cage" as envisaged by Weber, when he thought about the unity of technologies with the bureaucratic power. Technology and the use of networks and Internet alienate the bureaucrat physically from the citizen. Under the conditions when the citizen and bureaucrat become intelligent in their free way of thinking and cooperating, the relationship between the individual and public administration is in favour of stability. But when the two extremities of the rapport suffer from an unsustainable culture, which lacks an inner civil education, this unity is in fact a break of the rapport of the citizen with the state. This break leads to the alienation of the citizen, his indifference and all this might bring about animosity expressed in reciprocal relations.
That is why the return of attention to educational schemes has become emergent in order to confront with as little cost as possible the use of new technologies. In global developments it is quite impossible to think that special countries might follow their road without being crossed by these developments. Certainly Albania will follow the steps for the creation of a "smart city" model.
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(Source: Gala Academic Onefile, 24 Mar 2020)