• Dr. Vikas Misra

In today’s digital age, the initiative of smart city highlights a new wave of developing and reshaping the better digital lives for tomorrow. Digitalization is ensuring a positive force on developing countries to improve their infrastructure and rethinking the role of city leaders in creating better digital lives for smart cities. The core concept behind developing these smart cities is to create highly advanced urban regions and to improve upon quality of life in a larger connected network within society. The role of digital services are critical in this transformation, as it provides the best possible solution to monitor the wide range of aspects of city living and amenities, connecting every citizen to policy-making and administration. The emerging development of smart cities is a visionary step; the use of digital services will enhance its sustainability in through the number of issues in the development of urban lives. As digital India is centred on providing utility to citizens, offering on demand services and digital empowerment, the program will be the nexus of public services, public service providers and the public. On the other hand, some of the digital bangs have affected the smart cities more profoundly in augmenting the existing social dynamism of the community in question. This study is trying to address the emerging issues of comprehensive innovation and digitalization strategies on the people’s quality of life in view of discussing the challenges and opportunities for city leaders, citizens and government in creating better digital lives. In thinking about the leverages of digitalization for making smart cities reality, the important questions need to be analyzed that what benefits are associated with a tailored digitalization strategy to the cities for people. Secondly, how well the smart cities are realizing the worth of their information technology, enabling the city to deliver better services more efficiently. The specific objective of the study that we aim is to identify the current approaches of developing digital lives for smart cities and understanding the construct of technology in propelling individual growth. The research design employed for the present study is to showcase the challenges of designing smart cities with people in mind.For the purpose of this a comprehensive and extensive literature review was conducted, analyzing the current approaches of rebuilding the smart cities for the digital age. The implication of the study is to meet the challenges of tomorrow by focussing on the needs of people and building new services through human-centered design. It is also very imperative for the city leaders to improve the services and rebuild the infrastructure for developing better digital lives for the smart cities.

Digitalization, Digital Services, Smart Cities

"Framework & Challenges for Developing Better Digital Lives For Smart Cities", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no.401-409, September-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRB006073.pdf

"Framework & Challenges for Developing Better Digital Lives For Smart Cities", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 9, page no. pp401-409, September-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRB006073.pdf