Abstract
Globally, countries are increasingly facing challenges regarding their national future post the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to decreasing and aging populations; dwindling workforces; trade wars due to restricted movement of goods, people, and services; and overcoming economic development and societal problems. Accordingly, we identify the challenges and corresponding solutions that act as pillars for a framework to build a super smart nation. We analyze 73 peer-reviewed research papers from Scopus index databases and use the Delphi methodology to identify the challenges, which include people and society, robots, technology, research and innovation, digital infrastructure, data, politics, governance, and sustainability. Further, we discuss the relevant solutions, including top leadership motivation and commitment; proactive steps from the government, development of policies; legal frameworks and laws; creation of awareness programs; use of advanced technologies (such as robotics and semantic technologies); and development of interoperable infrastructure; innovation ecosystem; sustainable energy sources; and global standards for education system through transformation of the education system. These novel insights have valuable practical and theoretical implications for guiding policymakers, industry leaders, and researchers in building a super smart nation.
Highlights
On the one hand, according to Nair et al [9], a super smart society is a concept whereby nations start to visualize artificial intelligence (AI) and robots taking over human jobs to improve the quality of life of stakeholders [10] and solve challenges that arise from the declining birth rate and workforce as well as the increasing social security costs of healthcare
We describe the results of the stakeholders, characteristics, pillars, and challenges from online studies and expert interviews, and outline a framework for building a super smart nation
The challenges for super smart nations are classified into 10 broad categories: people and society, robots, technology, digital infrastructure, data, research and innovation, politics, governance, economics and business, and sustainability
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Nations, governments, and lawmakers should shape nations toward building people-centric super smart societies based on the concepts of smart nation and super smart society to improve people’s living standards and boost the economic development of nations This will ensure that nobody is left behind, that is, with regard to sustainable economic growth, and address future social problems in developed, emerging, and developing nations. The primary motivation of this study is to construct a robust framework for building a super smart nation to overcome future challenges such as a pandemic crisis; decreasing population and workforce; increasing social security and healthcare costs; and restricted movement of goods, people, and services to boost economic development and solve societal problems. We present the discussion, and we have the Conclusion section
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