When it comes to our PerfectCity Charter we would like to look into a new issue. This time the aim is to find out which factors are most important when it come to social services. The term “social services” has a wide ranging meaning. We want to focus on the general services provided by a city council to its citizens. Thus, social services are defined as benefits such as education, security or health care and the facilities providing and supporting them.

To see what is important for a city of the future in terms of the social services we composed a list of different factors. Please help us to evaluate these factors before we put them in the new poll and let our reader vote for them.

To accomplish this we think the following factors, in a randomized order, are a good basis to build upon:

• Health care (prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions)
• Education (encompasses both the teaching and learning of knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency)
• Security service (police & fire department)
• Road and building maintenance
• Refuse management (is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials)
• Gardening and landscaping (maintenance of public green areas)
• Social security (protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others – including public insurances, Pensions and child allowances)

What do you think about these factors? Do you see opportunities to build clusters? Is something missing or redundant? Which factors would you put up for voting in a poll? Please take a minute and lets us know what you are thinking.

We look forward to your comments and ideas!

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