Work has been done to create “smart communities,” a concept
which includes information technologies as indicators for future
urban planning and development, but there is still some
blurriness about what these transformations really intend to do.
In a October 2007 report presented by Smart Cities in Europe,
developed by the University of Ljubljana, Vienna University of
Technology and Delft University of Technology, the whole concept
was broken down into six main dimensions that can be applied to
any city, anywhere: - Smart Economy (Competitiveness); - Smart
People (Social and Human Capital); - Smart Governance
(Participation); - Smart Mobility (Transport, Information and
Communications Technology); - Smart Environment (Natural
Resources); - Smart Living (Quality of Life). What about in
Latin America and Buenos Aires? Can this “any city, anywhere”
concept relate to the problems in our cities? Is some effort
being made from local universities to define Smart Cities with a
Latin world-view? The answer is yes, at