Las ciudades inteligentes que no olvidan a las poblaciones más vulnerables, una oportunidad para el bien común

Resumen

The article that is developed below pretends to be a space for reflection and debate, beyond a position contrary to technological advances on what cities called "future" mean, in population sectors that can be classified as vulnerable, such as the elderly, minors and the homeless, among others. Depending on variables such as mobility, training, dependence, leisure models or available economic resources. As well as in certain territories that are being called "Spain emptied", in the context of the autonomous community of Andalusia. In this community, only as far as the older population is concerned (65 years and older), in the last 15 years, 1,165,630 people in 2005 have been transferred to 1,503,532 in 2019 (INE, 2020), which It represents an increase of 29%. Demographic studies have indicated that these data will continue to rise in the coming years, a situation that in relation to this sector of the population involves special attention in the face of the vulnerability indicators already mentioned above. That in what refers to beneficiaries with some type of benefit included in the Law of Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for People in Dependency (2016), in Andalusia the number reached 294,085 people (IMSERSO, 2019), standing for 73% of beneficiaries at the state level, the average age from 65 years. Studies confirm the risk of social exclusion in the population that does not use the new technologies, for García “those included are those who are connected; his others are the excluded, who see their ties broken when they are left without work, without a house, without connection.” (2006: 73). The possibility of access, as well as training in digital skills, nowadays become a necessity that will come to be considered as new social rights of all citizens, “among those who have and do not have internet” (Castells, 2003: 311). For what corresponds, from the public responsibility to the administrations, at their different levels, to develop how many initiatives are necessary in order not to generate cities and territorial spaces at different speeds, as far as technological development is concerned, otherwise it is run the risk of “smart” cities becoming spaces that come to generate if there is a greater dose of exclusion and social inequality. From the Social Work, together with the set of social auditors of other professions and academic disciplines, we must be attentive to the set of technological developments, which, directly or indirectly, can affect the well-being of people, their abilities to interaction and its development possibilities both at a personal, family or community level. Acting if possible as a voice of alert so that these advances effectively become opportunities for the common good.