On Managing the Social Components in a Smart City

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Schahram Dustdar ◽  
Ognjen Scekic
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Components

scholarly journals Research on Sentiment Tendency and Evolution of Public Opinions in Social Networks of Smart City

Complexity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanni Liu ◽  
Dongsheng Liu ◽  
Yuwei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Topic Model ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Time Curve ◽  
Public Opinions ◽  
The Social

With the rapid development of mobile Internet, the social network has become an important platform for users to receive, release, and disseminate information. In order to get more valuable information and implement effective supervision on public opinions, it is necessary to study the public opinions, sentiment tendency, and the evolution of the hot events in social networks of a smart city. In view of social networks’ characteristics such as short text, rich topics, diverse sentiments, and timeliness, this paper conducts text modeling with words co-occurrence based on the topic model. Besides, the sentiment computing and the time factor are incorporated to construct the dynamic topic-sentiment mixture model (TSTS). Then, four hot events were randomly selected from the microblog as datasets to evaluate the TSTS model in terms of topic feature extraction, sentiment analysis, and time change. The results show that the TSTS model is better than the traditional models in topic extraction and sentiment analysis. Meanwhile, by fitting the time curve of hot events, the change rules of comments in the social network is obtained.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF THE PLACEMENT OF HIGH-TECH COMPANIES IN THE REGIONS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE CONCEPT OF SMART CITY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Жуковский Андрей ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Russian Federation

This article shows that the deployment of modern high-tech companies in the regions affects the development of smart cities. In particular, it was noted that high-tech companies not only create high-tech products, but also are an example of optimization of management processes, economical consumption of various types of resources, and also serve as one of the factors for the accumulation of intellectual capital and the quality of life of the population in the regions. It is shown that modern advanced technologies of a smart city affect not only the social aspects of the region’s development, serve to improve its legislative, managerial and social foundations, but also encourage megacities to solve the problems of efficient use of the environment.

Identifying the degree of dependence of foreign direct investments on adjusted net savings of the recipient country

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larysa V. Rudenko-Sudarieva ◽  
Yuliia A. Shevchenko
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Recipient Country ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Components ◽  
Adjusted Net Savings ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicator

Due to the loss of the dominance of GDP as the main macroeconomic indicator of the social welfare, this study uses a more accurate and realistic indicator – adjusted net savings (ANS). Based on the economic and mathematical modelling, the study suggests a new method for identifying the value of adjusted net savings as a stimulating factor to increase the inflow of transnational capital to the recipient country. After assessing the current environment of investment attractiveness of recipient countries, attention was paid to identifying the degree of dependence of foreign direct investment on adjusted net savings. The novelty of this study is conditioned by the search and identification of the dominant macroeconomic indicator of investment attractiveness of the recipient country. Such an indicator will most fully reveal the conditions and prospects for attracting investments. The aim of this study was to consider alternative approaches to the country's development and to demonstrate the existence of a functional relationship between the volume of foreign direct investment and adjusted net savings. The purpose of this study is to build models of the dependence of foreign direct investment on adjusted net savings of the recipient country as an alternative indicator that most widely reveals the level of social welfare and economic development of the studied countries. Adjusted net savings consist of elements that cover the sustainable development of society, namely the economic, environmental, and social components. As a result, using the correlation and analysis of variance, the existence of dependence and its degree of influence on the volume of foreign direct investment on the adjusted net savings of the recipient country has been proved.

scholarly journals Evaluating and Planning Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Perspective for Sustainability and Resilience

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angioletta Voghera ◽  
Benedetta Giudice
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Social Components

In the light of the current changing global scenarios, green infrastructure is obtaining increasing relevance in planning policies, especially due to its ecological, environmental and social components which contribute to pursuing sustainable and resilient planning and designing of cities and territories. The issue of green infrastructure is framed within the conceptual contexts of sustainability and resilience, which are described through the analysis of their common aspects and differences with a particular focus on planning elements. In particular, the paper uses two distinct case studies of green infrastructure as representative: the green infrastructure of the Region Languedoc-Roussillon in France and the one of the Province of Turin in Italy. The analysis of two case studies focuses on the evaluation process carried on about the social-ecological system and describes the methodologies and the social-ecological indicators used to define the green infrastructure network. We related these indicators to their possible contribution to the measurement of sustainability and resilience. The analysis of this relationship led us to outline some conclusive considerations on the complex role of the design of green infrastructure with reference to sustainability and resilience.

Mnemonic Interplay: A Response to Byrskog, Bauckham, Zimmermann, and Schröter

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 173-182
Author(s):  
Anthony Le Donne
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
False Dichotomy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Components

In response to the essays by Bauckham, Byrskog, Schröter, and Zimmermann concerning “memory”, Le Donne summarizes and critiques four different applications of mnemonic studies to the Jesus tradition. The author notes the different approaches to sociology relative to memory and argues that both autobiographical memory and collective memory fall under the wider category of social memory. Moreover, contra Bauckham social memory is helpful avenue of study for historical Jesus research once properly understood. Contra Schröter, he argues that the study of the social components of autobiographical memory ought to play a part in scholarship concerning the Gospels. He also challenges the false dichotomy between the “remembered Jesus” and the “historical Jesus” as posed by Zimmermann.

Social participation in the definition of budgetary instruments

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 737-755
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio Felix Júnior ◽  
Wênyka Preston Leite Batista da Costa ◽  
Luciana Gondim de Almeida Guimarães ◽  
Glauber Ruan Barbosa Pereira ◽  
Walid Abbas El-Aouar
Keyword(s):  
Social Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose The participation of society is a valuable aspect of the governability of cities, for it strengthens the citizens’ collaborative component. Such participation, which is seen as social, is considered an essential element for the design of a smart city. This study aims to identify the factors that contribute to social participation in the definition of budgetary instruments’ planning. Design/methodology/approach Concerning the methodological instruments, this study is characterised by a quantitative and descriptive approach and uses a multivariate data analysis with a sample of 235 respondents. Findings The study’s findings identified a framework that portrays elements that collaborate with the social participation in the definition of the public administration’s budgetary instruments, which are considered as elements that are able to develop the role of the popular participation and are characterised by the definition of a smart city by enabling more assertiveness in society’s needs. Practical implications Identification of a framework that brings out elements that are able to develop the popular participation in the definition of budgetary instruments. Then, one scale of elements that contribute to social participation in the definition of the public administration’s budgetary instruments theoretically represented and statistically validated, thus contributing to the continuity of studies on social participation. Social implications Through studies on social participation in budgetary planning, it is possible to guarantee a better allocation of public resources through intelligent governability. Originality/value The research can bring theoretical elements about social participation in the definition of budget instruments for a statistical convergence through the perception of the sample.

Anderson, Delwin M.

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Physical Injury ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Components

Delwin M. Anderson (1916–2007) was director of the Social Work Service in the Veteran's Administration from 1964 to 1974. In his work he laid stress on recognizing the social components of illness and physical injury.

scholarly journals Are Smart-City Projects Citizen-Centered?

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 309
Author(s):  
Sánchez-Teba ◽  
Bermúdez-González
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Manager

Smart cities have become a new urban model for thinking and designing cities in the connected society. It is time to ask ourselves what kind of city we want and need. There is still a long way to go in relation to the role of citizenship in the field of smart cities. This autoethnography reveals different contradictions found during the preparation of my doctoral thesis, which studied the citizens’ perception of smart city policies in a city in southern Spain, in my double role as a doctoral student/researcher and public manager. Many of the statements and conclusions of different scientific research contrasted with the reality that I was experiencing in my daily work. My conclusions can help in the current debate on which cities we want to build at a time when the population is concentrated in cities and where it is necessary to respond to not only the economic, but also the social and environmental problems posed by sustainability

PP297 Rethinking The Gap Between Technology And Implementation: A Framework For Socially Embedded Technoscience

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (S1) ◽  
pp. 26-26
Author(s):  
Chad Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Integrated System ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Critical History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Social Components ◽  
Physical Tools

IntroductionIn 1964, Jacques Ellul framed the history of technology as one defined not just by the introduction of new machines, but by the social and institutional practices that guide their use and implementation. He called this integrated system “la technique,” believing that the word “technology” had come to emphasize physical tools at the cost of social ones.There is a strong critical component in Ellul, who opposed the dehumanization apparent in technological systems and their associated forms of utilitarian thinking. Remaining aware of this critical history, this study relies on Ellul and similar technological theories to conceptualize a framework for rethinking the distinction between health technologies and their implementation in the context of health technology assessments (HTAs). It does so by considering how HTAs could be modified within the proposed framework to better consider the social and human factors that determine how a drug or technology exists within a “live” social environment.MethodsThe study is conceptual and driven by an analysis of existing HTAs. It details potential ways that reviews could be adjusted in line with the presentation's proposed framework.ResultsBy collapsing the distinction between technology and implementation, we can guide HTAs that are more cognizant of the essential human and social components of implementation, helping to avoid the crises that arise when technologies are introduced without considering their fundamental social factors.ConclusionsMany modern HTAs already take implementation into account, but their findings treat technologies as conceptually distinct from practices and procedures, leaving the latter to local institutions to determine. By challenging the traditional gap between technological and sociological factors in traditional HTA practices, it is possible to develop new approaches to reviewing health technologies—not as distinct objects, but as complex sociotechnical phenomena in line with Ellul's “la technique.”

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