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Hard Infrastructure vs Soft Infrastructure

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Hard infrastructure are physical things and supporting information technologies that provide basic services that are essential to economic activity and quality of life.
Soft infrastructure are institutions that are essential to the economy and quality of life such as government, health, education, financial and legal systems.

The Difference

Hard infrastructure are physical things such as bridges and solar panels. Soft infrastructure are mostly institutions such as courts of law and universities.
The most common overlap between the two areas is information infrastructure. Information technologies that directly support physical things such as energy infrastructure is considered hard infrastructure. General information technologies that support economic activity such as telecom networks are considered soft infrastructure.
Hard Infrastructure vs Soft Infrastructure
Hard Infrastructure
Soft Infrastructure
Definition
Physical things that are essential to the economy and quality of life.
Institutions and basic technology services that are essential to the economy and quality of life.

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