Social Impacts

Creating more reliance on government among citizens, increasing citizens’ satisfaction from governmental services, corruption reduction in governmental bodies and creating transparency in governance are most valuable social impacts of implementing “Virtual City Solution”.

It has happened through direct access of citizens and all involved professionals to laws and regulations on interested lands and properties. Also sharing urban development plans in structural plans is another achievement which is available in form of a 2D/3D visual environment.

People today can fly on the city, find their properties in a complete virtual model with all details and send their inquiries or check governing laws and regulations on their piece of property clearly. Also automatic decision making on inquiries with automatic map processing in GIS applications and automatic applying of governing laws and regulations without human intervention are success keys of urban integrated management system or “Virtual City Solution”.

Peoples can easily trace their request status and there is no need to refer to municipalities in order to send inquiries or check their request status anymore. Standard times for each activity are setup and during the defined timeframes, jobs should be processed. So clarity in this way helps the people to follow up the issues or send claims when it should be done. Also responsible bodies are clearly defined and people can easily send their claims to the right place. Equal chances exist for all the people because of availability of information on urban structural and local plans for public. Although before implementing “Virtual City” only limited people had access to such information.

So “Virtual City Solution” is a new culture of doing things and social impacts of it are relatively valuable and outstanding. As a conclusion, implementation of such projects requires governors’ determination for making a real change in their activities.