Urban Security Technologies for Moroccan Smart Cities: A Proactive Analysis for Unforeseen Impacts
摘要
Smart cities, as a relevant technological innovation, offer potentials that make urban activities more efficient and more effective. These technologies contribute to the improvement of the complexity of human life within modern cities, and thanks to their advantages and benefits, human activities of organization, planning, and urban management become more efficient, safer, and more sustainable. Moreover, the adoption of urban security technologies also appears to be effective and yields the same advantageous results, especially in public safety and also in resource management and the improvement of citizens’ quality of life. However, these technologies raise as many questions in their usage processes, causing multiple challenges that affect society, security, stability, the environment, etc., making the presence of an effective and sustainable organizational and regulatory strategy a necessity. For this reason, we focus the work in this chapter on the close study of these urban security technologies according to the requirements of the moroccan transition towards the smart cities model, by anticipating the potential impacts on insufficient infrastructures, public distrust around these urban security technologies, and citizens’ rights in urban management. In this analytical model, a comprehensive strategy is proposed, but which prioritizes inclusion, environmental sustainability, and social sustainability as the foundations of urban management during its planning and development. In this study, we provide the most well-known examples of cities that have adopted the concepts of smart cities, such as Dubai, Singapore, and Barcelona, to guide our analytical trajectory by encouraging decision-makers to draw inspiration from these examples in order to ensure citizen participation, transparency in local management, and adaptation during the deployment of these projects, considering the local conditions and the moroccan’s requirements, while also leveraging and benefiting from these technologies without mitigating potential risks.