EDUCATION IN SMART CITIES: PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

Education is one of the main services offered by the government. Within the advent of smart cities, smart education is defined as the education strategy for smart cities and the concept is becoming more popular with the advent of smart cities. This research aims to address the role of education in smart cities context by providing an overview of the current practices and discussing some of the challenges that exist in delivering education within this context. The following challenges have been identified: advocating for technology, the risk of increasing the rural-urban divide, multidisciplinary of the field and the existence of different definitions of what a smart city is.