ROLE KRAJŮ V PODPOŘE IMPLEMENTACE KONCEPTU SMART CITIES V ROZVOJI OBCÍ A MĚST
ROLE OF THE REGIONS IN THE SMART CITIES CONCEPT IMPLEMENTATION IN RURAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Zuzana Khendriche Trhlínová, Petr Čechák
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Rural and urban sociology, Economic development
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: smart cities; smart region; strategy; public sector;
Summary/Abstract: Strengthening of the competitiveness of the private sector via innovations linked with digitalisation, use of autonomous systems in production, logistics and resource management opens new development challenges for public sector. Digital transformation makes new opportunities of the public goods provision systems. It can be used in solving current development problems of urban regions (environmental issues, mobility, social services, healthcare) as well as of rural regions (availability of public services). Implementation of Smart solutions is supported via national and European public policies by financial tools (subventions), institutionally (methodology, strategy) and legally. Regions can contribute to implementation of Smart concepts due to their good knowledge about the specific local needs. The objective of the text is to compare the current approaches of regions to the Smart Cities concept implementation. The article is based on literature review and on the secondary analysis of regional documents and strategies. We analysed fourteen Czech regions. Regions work with the Smart region status, some of them have specific subsidies to implement Smart Cities solutions in municipalities. Region´s support of Smart Cities concepts is quite different. Main supported domains are mobility, energy, IT projects and environment. Culture and circular economy belong to the least supported domains.

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