Introduction
What Is Smart Community? Smart Community is defined as connected ci�zens who embrace and deploy technology to enable economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability. Characteristics of Smart Community • Maintains a healthy, flexible, and resilient lifestyle. • Prepares the ci�zens with mul�cultural perspec�ve, developing upskills and trained individuals.
• Ci�zen Readiness for 21st century educa�on. • Maintains high graduate Enrolment Ra�o. • Willingness towards the adop�on of lifelong learning and e-learning models.
A technologically-enabled city will thrive only if its communi�es are ‘smart’. This applies to the ability of everyday ci�zens to engage with enabling technologies and shape the vision for digital transforma�on in ci�es. Figure 4-1 shows the rela�onship between smart communi�es and smart ci�es. A smart community should have a lifelong zeal to learn, and there should be social and ethnic plurality. Open-mindedness is another quality of a smart community, as is having the flexibility to adapt to changes in the environment, as well as the crea�vity to contribute to the economy.
Smart Community in Smart Cities
Increased work performance, smarter u�lisa�on of new ICT infrastructure and services
Crea�on of felicitous city, city may flourish with harmonious and happy atmosphere
Less chaos, ac�vi�es are be�er organised, be�er planned, city will grow successfully
Smart city will be able to cope with obstacles easily because of the op�mis�c, calm and stress-free characteris�c of its ci�zens
Increase in innova�on development of new technologies, be�er ideas to make smart city more sustainable
Figure 4-1: Smart Communities in Smart Cities
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