Kružić: Smart cities area is the potential area of employment

Details: Hits: 820

smart gradovi rijeka Zagreb, January 21, 2017 – „There is no correct definition of the smart city area because for someone smart city means technology, for someone environment, for someone else could mean something totally different. Smart city is an innovative and efficient way of city managing, the way of managing where technology is not a cause but is a resource,"said Vedran Kružić, Assistant Minister of Trade and Internal Market in term 2011./2015. about sustainable and smart development of smart cities.

Kružić said that the smart cities area is the potential area of employment – SMART CITIES industrial value of 1500 billions of dollars. Cities become intersections of virtual and physical space for which the precondition is infrastructure with its role of people attraction and infrastructure functioning. Characteristic view of the smart cities is holistic because smart cities see its citizens as partners and try to pay attention on the interests of the every part of society. Kružić pointed out that territorial wealth, tolerance, technology and talent are preconditions for smart cities development.

„Smart city is a community network where people team up. It is a trust network in which the citizens have free data access", concludes Kružić.

Damir Medved, manager of the National Competence Center for Smart Cities and R&D – Ericsson Nikola Tesla senior advisor, continued the seminar.
Medved pointed out that the main founder idea of the National Competence Center for Smart Cities in Rijeka is technology adjustment to cities so it could be available to smaller communities and to South-east Europe.

„City does not mean technology! " There are protocols and standards that the cities choose due to their citizen's needs. Every city has its own problems and population structure that needs to be perceived. City functions are connected to business process and not to technology so smart cities that are not technological also exist. When the problem is identified, next step is policy implementation. It is important to identify correctly which problems need to be solved immediately and which one can be solved later", Medved pointed out.

By gathering of partners with triple helix model, university linking with local governments and with private sector, the idea of including small companies that make the platform contributes to the system which is open to everyone who wants to participate.

Medved pointed out examples from the National Competence Center for Smart Cities RI work (traffic, PSMP Payment Services, Management Platform, Smart Cities technology connected to sports facilities).
Medved ended his lecture with thesis about the importance of the effort by local governments that need to identify local problems and then to consult with experts about next step.