Can Local Community Be Smart and Inclusive? Governance and Innovations in Local Social Policy in Poland
Can Local Community Be Smart and Inclusive? Governance and Innovations in Local Social Policy in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to explain and interpret social aspects of the concept of a smart city and also indicate methods and tools for creating intelligent community within local social policy. The article will also discuss the paradigm of public governance in local social policy which, as it can be claimed, is a boundary condition for social innovations. In the introductory part of the article we present a review of current concepts of local development, especially the concept of a smart city, we explain the meaning of the term of social innovations and we also briefly characterize the idea and meaning of the paradigm of public governance for local social policy. In the empirical part of the article we describe new global trends in intelligent development of local communities.

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