Smart Cities Offer Solutions for People’s Problems

KOMPAS/BAHANA PATRIA GUPTA

Children read books in the Community Reading Park of Neighborhood Community (RW) VI in Dukuh Menanggal, Surabaya, East Java, on Thursday (10/01/2019). To improve the culture of literacy among its residents, the Surabaya city administration has built 1,378 reading points that can be accessed free of charge.

JAKARTA, KOMPAS – Interactions between people and between the public and the municipal administration cannot be replaced by technology. Human beings remain the focus of development efforts.

Improving the quality of life among its residents is the ultimate goal of smart cities, as defined by the Kompas Research and Development (Kompas R&D) in the 2018 Indonesian Smart Cities Index (IKCI) with reference to international smart city campaigner Boyd Cohen’s “smart cities wheel”.