A smart city should be smart in the eyes of the people who live there. It should make the people feel privileged and fortunate to live here. Not just for the sake of competition of 100 smart cities.
The initiative is good. The implementation should be useful. The approach taken by corporate is of technology – wi-fi data enabled. Yes it is useful and good use of technology, however general public should find it useful. – difference is usefulness. i.e.STP water treatment is a must, but the general public will hardly know.
If busses are beautiful but the elderly and handicapped people are unable to use them, can we call it SMART? Hardly. So taking this approach of being a really SMART city – I propose a slightly measurable and a little more human approach to the technology approach.
Truly Smart cities are those where not just the general public have things moving smoothly and efficiently and easily for them, but even those who are not in the mainstream or not in the majority of numbers – elderly, handicapped, people with pets to name a few examples – also find it easy to be a part of this city. They too are included in the thoughts for planning and development and they too are made to feel comfortable in their day-to-day activities in the city.
Let’s make the city Friendly for all these following groups of people:
- All citizens
- Culture Friendly
- Tourist Friendly
- Environment Friendly
- Pet Friendly
- Tree Friendly
- Elderly Friendly
- Children Friendly
- Handicapped Friendly
- Photographer Friendly
- Health Friendly
- Power / Energy Friendly
- Travel Friendly
- Rain water Friendly
- Footpath Friendly
- Hoarding Friendly
- E-library
- Wi-Fi friendly
- Learning Friendly
- Police Friendly
- Bird Friendly
- Consumer Friendly
- Theatre, Performing arts friendly
- Artist Friendly
- Sports Friendly
- Law and Order Friendly
- Road Safety Friendly
- Safety and Security Friendly
- Entertainment Friendly
- Food Friendly
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