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Territorial smartness and the relevance of the learning ecosystems
Urban environments are composed by cities and citizens but presently benchmarking approaches — even the standardized ones — consider only the first of these two components and identify the smartness of a city with the efficacy and the effectiveness of infrastructures and processes to optimize consumptions and productive chains. Beyond the statistical problems that affects such top-down benchmarking approaches, they do not represent the citizens' perception of what a smart city should be and, among the rest, almost fully neglect the actual relevance that a pillar like education has for social innovation and territorial development. Because of this we present an alternative definition of smartness, based on the concept of "flow", and a related bottom-up benchmarking framework that can be applied to learning ecosystems and, more in general, to the any sort of territory.
Territorial smartness and the relevance of the learning ecosystems
Urban environments are composed by cities and citizens but presently benchmarking approaches — even the standardized ones — consider only the first of these two components and identify the smartness of a city with the efficacy and the effectiveness of infrastructures and processes to optimize consumptions and productive chains. Beyond the statistical problems that affects such top-down benchmarking approaches, they do not represent the citizens' perception of what a smart city should be and, among the rest, almost fully neglect the actual relevance that a pillar like education has for social innovation and territorial development. Because of this we present an alternative definition of smartness, based on the concept of "flow", and a related bottom-up benchmarking framework that can be applied to learning ecosystems and, more in general, to the any sort of territory.
Territorial smartness and the relevance of the learning ecosystems
Giovannella, Carlo (author)
2015-10-01
425891 byte
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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