Cities and Digitalization—Smart Cities

There have been varied definitions and conceptualizations of smart cities. Many studies link smart cities with sustainable development, while others argue that sustainability in pure form is an unachievable goal as any intervention in nature has its adverse consequences but argue that we can be near sustainability using smart technologies. Many have used the term “smart technologies” to denote digital technologies, referring, in essence, to the Information and communication technologies (ICT) and computing power that is being used to analyse the big data generated by the ICT itself, while others have also linked with it the quality of human capital, that is educatedness, awareness, and intelligence of the citizens rather than only those in managerial positions and governance processes.