A quem serve a cidade? Uma discussão sobre governança digital e a smartização da cidade de Fortaleza/CE.

Abstract

The Democratic State of Law, in its core, was developed through several struggles, whose city only after a long time came to be considered an object of right. Devoting attention, study and research to the right to the city is, so to speak, to analyze under the bias of fundamental rights the realization of administrative action with regard to the effectiveness of the administrative function. Not enough, the evolution to the scientific technicality of the city, making it intelligent, brings to the debate smartização of public services and the increase of digital governance. Thus, this research was based on the following guiding question: under what circumstances does the city of Fortaleza enter into the process of smartization and digital governance? general objective we have: to analyze the context of the city of Fortaleza, parameterizing data related to smart city analysis indicators. For specific objectives, we have: i) go through the process of recognition of the right in history, understanding when the city appears as a right to the individual; ii) understand the notion of city and smart city; iii) investigate the reality of digital governance in Brazil and its relationship with smartização; iv) catalog the data of structural problems, comparing with the expectation of social indicators of smart city. By methodology, the study is supported by a qualitative research, exploratory-descriptive approach, whose data collection was from the bibliographic review and legal document analysis, intending by analysis, the case study of the city of Fortaleza, in which was implemented the triangulation of thematic cuttings built in the research. By reference, we consider Sousa (2024), Ferreira (2021), Lefevbre (2006), Casimiro (2009), Harvey (2014) and Benevides (2002), as drivers of the built analysis. By results, we show that the social inequality data differ from what is reflected as a social indicator of smart city. Digital processes have almost all the merit of digital governance, but neglect other social structural problems such as housing, protected environment and leisure. In conclusion, it has to be that the smart city draws today is confused with urban enterprise and forgets, of citizens.