Smart Competences for Smart Citizens

Applying technology for solving urban issues and improving the quality of citizen’s life are significant features of smart cities [1]. In the current literature on smart cities, it is already recognized, that digital citizens are one of the critical success factors for digitalization of smart cities [2][3]. However, the literature focuses on technical aspects of smart cities’ digitalization, although human factor or people are the key factor for a project success. Especially, in such projects as smart cities, where the quality of people’s life belongs to the definition of smart city itself. Smart cities imply high technological complexity. Does it have an impact on the competence level of their citizens? When one uses a calculator for a long time, one’s capability to count in mind reduces with the time. Will smart cities have the same impact on their inhabitants, or, to ensure cities’ functioning, “smarter” citizens would be important? In this paper, the author represents an analysis of literature on related factors of “smart” citizens and suggests the smart citizens’ competence profile.