If as Cerrudo afirms “The more technology a city uses, the more vulnerable to cyber attacks it is […] it’s only a matter of time until attacks on city services and infrastructure happen”, how we could thing of infrastructure that is tecnological, but not in the traditional sense, or at least not so dependant on digital information? Could a system that takes resilience as a value could be deveolped? and even if there is some loss in term of efficiency could strategies as redundancy be implemented in the building of the infrastructure of the smart city?
Townsend affirms that “The sheer of city-scale smart systems comes with its own set of problems. Cities and their infrastructure are already the most complex structure humankind has ever created. Interweaving them with equally complex information processing can only multiply the opportuities for bugs and unanticipated interactions”. In this context, could we argue that the problem is not just a matter of improving the design of the systems, but in any case, to have back-up systems that are more granular, less centralized, and less dependant on digital technologies?
In the same manner, all this scenarios, at the end, show the need of having smart citizens that have the skills necessary to undestand and deal with the problems that will come with the deployment of a smart cities. Should a plan to ‘smarten’ the citizen be integral part of the development of smart cities?