A smart city is an innovative and effective approach to city management, resource management that this city has, processes and public services, which allows us to adequate application developed digital technology solutions. Such cities are becoming an area of strong employment, a large market that attracts new investors, but also like a magnet attracts people who are massively settled primarily for employment, but also a higher quality of life. A smart city is constantly seeking balance between the aforementioned quality of life and GDP growth, and living standards. The concept of smart city is not reserved just for the large population of one million who have sufficient financial resources to invest in modern technology, but it is much more appropriate and in small towns and municipalities that are prevalent in Croatia. Smart cities are not made overnight, but this is a long-term and patient process in order to act in a certain direction actually produced the desired effect. The steps are as follows: vision, strategy and objectives for the development, quality assessment of the potential development, defining and measuring performance indicators, developing and establishing measures of activities, which means that all participants in the process should be included, the realization of planned projects and ultimately transform public services in order to improve the quality of these service. Since in Croatia, apart from Zagreb, there are no large cities according to some international criteria, we could instead of the concept of "smart cities" to use the term "smart community". The majority of Croatian cities and municipalities is still in the phase of evaluation of potential development but the projects are directed towards the process of creation of smart communities for now still few and single. It should be noted that in spite of this we separated, we can learn a lot from the catalog successfully implemented smart solutions in the world to fit their needs and capabilities. It is quite clear is that our smart solutions likely to go in another direction, but will aim to be self-higher quality of citizens life. The whole process of converting the municipalities and cities in Croatia in a "smart community" will change the face of local government, make it effective and municipal and city authorities will make it easier to make smart decisions and easier implementation of smart projects.