Implementing Smart City Technologies into Management Mechanism of Municipal Formations
Authors: Komarevtseva O. O. 
Published: March 2021

Purpose of the study. The purpose of the scientific article is to form a toolkit that makes it possible to assess the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation based on the current state of the territory development. The achievement of this goal is regulated by the processes of considering the features of the Smart City concept in terms of the municipal formation development, generation of author's indicators for assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of the municipal formation, the development of a simulation model for assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of the municipal formation. The purpose of the study will allow confirming or rejecting the hypothesis about the advisability of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of the municipal formation. Materials and methods. The research instrumental apparatus is based on the use of the following methods: the method for identifying essential characteristics, theoretical representation, data grouping, assessment, simulation modeling, Bass diffusion method, and graphical representations. The application of theoretical methods is aimed at studying indicators for assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation. The simulation modeling methods and Bass diffusion method will focus attention on the possibility of predicting the management mechanism of a municipal formation with the Smart City concept. Results. Today, the postulates of the Smart City concept are not used within the framework of the municipal formation management mechanism. The study led to the conclusion that the Smart City concept is used for the development of some directions of the municipal formation (for example, the urban infrastructure). The lack of a regulatory and legal framework at the local level in the field of Smart-management and Smart-design shows the impossibility of assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation. At the municipal level, there is no effective toolkit for assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation. On the one hand, simulation modeling acts as a tool for accumulating and simplifying the parameters for assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation. On the other hand, simulation modeling focuses the attention on the process of forecasting the development of directions of the municipal formation management mechanism after Smart City technologies introduction. Within the framework of the study, the following conclusions were formed: Smart City concept is not adapted to the modern conditions of the development of the management mechanism of a municipal formation; the absence of a methodology for assessing the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation doesn’t allow implementing effective measures for the development of small territories; simulation modeling is a rather interesting tool for medium-term forecasting of the feasibility of introducing Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation. Conclusion. To introduce Smart City technologies into the management mechanism of a municipal formation, it is necessary to use modern assessment and simulation modeling tools to form an idea of the result of actions taken in the current period and in the medium term.