SMART CITY IN ENSURING HUMAN SOCIAL SECURITY IN WAR CONDITIONS

Abstract

The features of developing a smart city in war conditions are studied. In conditions of danger, the developed infrastructure of the city can help its residents, which is what the “smart city” is focused on in its human-centric approach. The international experience of ensuring the safety and resource-saving of a smart city in emergencies has been studied: initiatives to combine technologies and people; creation of “green” and “smart” construction laboratories; energy resource management system; methods for incorporating technical and social development into improving the quality of life; robotic systems that help to properly use resources in the event of a threat. The role of a smart city in ensuring a person’s social security in the context of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the features of cooperation between the private and public sectors when launching smart city initiatives is analyzed. The place of small and medium-sized businesses in the provision of services in the first months of the war was found: providing the population with food and medicine, free travel on some routes, free Internet services in shelters, which helped people receive timely notifications and stay in touch with their relatives. We concluded that projects that increase the safety of citizens and provide equipment for shelters or their modernization, as well as energy-saving measures, are extremely important in a war. Therefore, ways to balance between human social security and smart city resource saving in times of war include the following: the use of public-private partnership (when private capital is attracted, part of the budget funds is released and can be directed to the implementation of other strategic and important projects in smart cities), providing benefits to projects to improve human security and energy conservation due to damage to energy infrastructure facilities, as well as social projects aimed at improving living conditions and social adaptation of people.