Towards Inclusive Smart Cities: Key Evaluation Criteria for Technology and Human-Centered Development

Based on the 189 projects submitted to the Seoul Smart City Prize 2023, this paper aims to distinguish the key indicators affecting smart city project with a focus on human centered smart city development. By identifying the highly correlated indicators and the ones that have the greatest influence on the result, divergence and replicability and scalability was the important criteria in technology focused projects and service facilitating conditions and digital media literacy level was important for human-centered initiative focused projects. These findings can be a guidance to understand the critical elements of human centered smart city project design.