E7. Open Multifunctional Units pilot applications
Any start about Open Multifunctional Units (OMU) as an app for low-income provinces first requires outlining opportunities and discussions about OMU as an app for low-income areas (provinces). It covers:
Outlining opportunities for the OMU potential development (adaptation) and understanding of specific conditions for life, business, and safety in the peri-urban and rural areas, and
Being prudent and suppressing the city's expansion influences but, on the other side, being a careful observer of the professional development of the future of cities and megacities.
Figure Ex.10a offers a view of opportunities for the development of the OMU in peri-urban and rural areas. It defines the principle and potential for three options (central, line, and camps settlement).
Figures Ex.10b and Figure Ex.10c are about two (historical) types of settlements that are mainly mixed. Their distinction gives a sense of cases with new inputs into a traditional (primarily conservative) arrangement of buildings at specific places.
It is the case with OMU. It depends on which type of building, and purposes of its utilization, and its urban functions. In this case, the building architecture of individual buildings and their architectural composition in situ has a standard shape. It depends on the environment of the administration processes and material composition (see Figures C9g.1 to Figure C9i.1).
For such an approach to settlement, the most important is flexibility in urban planning and the variability of the building structures to reflect different demands on the building functions. The Open Multifunctional Unit (OMU) principle has a sizeable potential to serve the market demand needs (e.g., problems of demolition of slams, building camps, and comfortable, humanitarian areas full of different and extremal risks, see Figure Ex.10d).
Figure Ex.10 outlines four groups (a, b, c, and d) of potential users. They determine a standard building structure as cells (mounted in situ) for different functions, for example, workshops, storage, shops, restrooms, classroom, doctor's surgery, hygiene centers, laundries, washing rooms, offices for any purposes, etc. Housing conditions can be outlined as much better than we can see now at the bank of brooks, rivers, lakes, and along routes in any province of low-income countries.
The Open Multifunctional Unit (OMU) is an example of the SPC Concept's physical (concrete) output. Figure Ex.11a is presented as an object, not only as a building; it is a package of complex offers for a dwelling needs of a specific area on territories of low-income provinces or a temporary camp in critical emergency incidents. OMU is, in a broader sense, a representative of such comprehensive requirements.
OMU is an example of the physical (concrete) output. On the philosophical level, it is a thing. It is subject to learning about new forms of cooperation between projects and organizations (e.g., via the new project paradigm filters) to find measurable functions and characters of social and economic parameters for the Target Group (TG) and Final Beneficiaries (FB). In this sense, the SPC Concept is a portion (pre-cooked segment) of the Internet of things that can reveal the synergy potential of OMU apps, build an interface in specific objects, and motivate the Human participant to accept such type of harmony.
Yes, it is about machine orchestration (in their hardware and software package) initiated by the Humans together with machines (computers) as new apps (orgware) in the Great Triad (GT) environment. It represents a new phenomenon for business growth. It is a phenomenon of the business environment with selection criteria built on competitiveness in a specific pool of data defined by the SPC Drivers' scope and SPC utility operation framework.
Figure Ex.11b links the above with a broader view of the internal and external infrastructure demonstrated by the object (model) Open Multifunctional Units (OMU). Internal infrastructure is represented by all elements and procedures of drivers operating in the object (e.g., in a building). External infrastructure is characterized by all aspects and techniques of drivers operating out of the object (e.g., among buildings).
An example of technical infrastructure:
The distribution of water, electricity, etc., in the building and the linked distribution systems of water, electricity, etc., related to the interior of a building fulfill internal infrastructure functions (are attached dominantly to a technical and supply chain and other functional services). They are managed and owned mainly (preferably) by private or coop owners of objects in an environment where local companies provide services.
The long-distance energy and water, local water distribution, electricity, etc., represent services among territorial units linked to distribution systems of water, electricity, etc., and among buildings on built-up lands, and building plots represent the essential services and supply chains to the life and development of villages, towns, or urban districts. Represent an infrastructural system. On one side, it is a vast area of activities; on the other side, it is an attractive area for scaling and standardizing products and digitalizing all products and services operations, a newly standardized process leveraged by growing digital operations and services.
In this sense, the technical infrastructure is a model case for social, economic, and safety infrastructures.
Social infrastructure covers (e.g., healthcare, education, culture, sport, housing equipment, and administrative services),
Economic infrastructure covers (e.g., financial and banking services, insurance, economic consulting), and
Safety infrastructure covers (police, fireman, cyber safety, and army services).
Generally, we can say that infrastructure governance (in all spectrums of infrastructures) is the basis for any digital activities in the Global Digital Transformation (GDT) and for any human behavior changes needed for the Global Human Adaptation (GHA) worldwide (in the sense of his/her will to survive and reach safety well-being in the GT environment.
In summary, the technical infrastructure is vital for gaining global skills for scaling processes and their digitalization for anything around us.
The start-up of such a complex technical transformation and social adaptation in the environment of low-income provinces is a great challenge and the first feasible step for the human-machine structural building in the infrastructural governance processes in the responsibility of local central or self-administrations. It is a most concentrated issue of the content of Chapters in preparation for this Open Webbook.