scholarly journals DA SMART GOVERNANCE ÀS SMART CITIES. REFLEXÕES COMPARATIVAS SOBRE O CAMINHO TRILHADO E O FUTURO DESEJADO COM BASE NO EXEMPLO DE DUAS CIDADES PORTUGUESAS

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ireneu De Oliveira Mendes ◽  
Pedro Miguel Alves Ribeiro Correia ◽  
Alexandre Dias Carreiro Santos Serra
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Smart Governance

O conceito de smart city surgiu na cidade de Amsterdão e está cada vez mais dissipado por todo o mundo. As smart cities assumem-se cada vez mais fundamentais para as novas realidades que o planeta enfrenta, quer ao nível de sustentabilidade, das tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TIC), como de muitos outros setores. Neste artigo, pretende-se demonstrar a importância do conceito smart governance no desenvolvimento das smart cities. Como metodologia, desenvolveram-se duas entrevistas: uma primeira a um chefe de gabinete do município de Coimbra, e uma segunda a um vereador do município de Aveiro, de forma a proceder-se a um estudo comparado entre estas duas cidades e as cidades de Lisboa e Amsterdão. Com base nas entrevistas realizadas, retiraram-se análises distintas de duas cidades em momentos distintos, com velocidades evolutivas distintas: Aveiro, uma cidade de notável evolução tecnológica, não só a nível universitário, mas também ao nível camarário, através do desenvolvimento de projetos de grande dimensão e de potencial fortemente inovador. Por outro lado, Coimbra, uma cidade histórica, situada no centro litoral de Portugal, que apenas nos últimos anos tem começado a acompanhar estas mudanças prementes.

Smart Cities and Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 464-483
Author(s):  
Özcan Sezer ◽  
Mehmet Avcı
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Smart Governance

Cities are futures' crucial elements, playing an important role in economics, social and environmental. As closer to individuals, cities face some challenges in terms of problems caused through the rapid urbanization process. Hence, governments and public agencies at all levels should use smart techniques including technology for sustainable development, better quality of life for citizens, and finally, an efficient use of scarce public resources. In this sense, Turkey plans to apply a smart city concept in Turkish cities as worldwide and published 2020-2023 National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan document with four strategic goals, nine targets, and 40 actions. This chapter aims to reveal the institutional, fiscal, and social challenges on smart governance, which is the most important dimension of smart city, for Turkey. In this respect, there are some challenges on smart governance in Turkey in terms of legislation, institutional, transparency and accountability, participation, e-democracy, and citizens.

scholarly journals The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savis Gohari ◽  
Dirk Ahlers ◽  
Brita F. Nielsen ◽  
Eivind Junker
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Urban Utopia ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Different Levels

A pragmatic and polity-focused solution for governing a smart city in the direction of sustainability is still missing in theory and practice. A debate about whether a smart city is a pragmatic solution for modern challenges or just a technology-led urban utopia is entangled with the vexed issue of governance. While ‘smart governance’ has drawn unprecedented interest, the combination of its conceptual vagueness and broad applications couple with a lack of focus on its underlying international and local political paradigms have raised concerns about its utility. This study contributes to restoring attention to the original concept of governance, its differences with governing and government, and the potential challenges resulting from its functionality in its real, multi-layered, and complex contexts. This paper explores the intellectual connection between governance and smart cities, from both an empirical and a conceptual/analytical perspective. From the empirical side, we examine which actors, processes, and relational mechanisms at different levels that have had an impact on the initiation of smart cities in three Norwegian cities: Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø. We illustrate how the structural sources of the interests, roles, and power in smart city initiatives have caused governance to emerge and change, but have also affected the goals designed by specific actors.

Multi-criteria analysis of smart cities in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Karolina Ogrodnik
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Promethee Method ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

The primary objective of the work is to analyze the largest Polish cities in terms of the smart city indicators, which currently form one of the most important models of development. Special attention was paid to smart and sustainable solutions for public transport and infrastructure. An MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)/MCDA (Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) method was used. First, the selected method (PROMETHEE) allowed to indicate the smartest and least smart cities with respect to six main dimensions: smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment, and smart living. Secondly, the PROMETHEE method allowed compilation of a final ranking, taking into account publicly available indicators of the smart city concept. Finally, 43 smart city indicators that are available in public statistics were proposed. In addition to the primary goal of the study, i.e., diagnosis of Polish cities in terms of the global concept of smart city, a critical analysis of the availability of necessary statistical indicators was also carried out, indicating potential directions for database development.

Smart Cities and Digital Governance

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Mamoona Humayun ◽  
N. Z. Jhanjhi ◽  
Malak Z. Alamri ◽  
Azeem Khan
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Digital Governance ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Intelligent Security ◽  
The City

With the ubiquitous low-cost sensor devices and widespread use of IoT, the paradigm is shifted from urban areas towards a smart city. A smart city is an urban area that uses IoT technologies to collect data and manage resources efficiently. The vision is to improve the capabilities and to solve the citizens' problems (e.g., energy consumption, transportation, recycling, intelligent security, etc.) in an efficient way. A smart city is a multidimensional term including a smart economy, smart mobility, smart living, smart environment, smart people, and smart governance. Although the concept of a smart city is increasing and currently there exist many such cities in many developed countries, one of the key challenges faced by these cities is good governance. Smart cities need smart governance to run the city in a smarter way, and effective digital governance is a solution to this end. Digital governance refers to the use of digital technology in government practices.

How the smart governance model shapes cities? Cases from Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demokaan Demirel
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
City Models

Purpose This study aims to discuss the transformational effect of the smart governance concept, which is one of the complementary elements of the smart city concept and to explain the change in governance structures according to the developments in information and communication technology. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the case study as one of the qualitative research methods is preferred, and smart city models of Barcelona, Amsterdam, Kocaeli and Ankara are examined. Findings In the research, scientific studies in the academic literature were evaluated according to the content analysis, and as a result of this analysis, the cities examined were grouped as “beginner,” “medium” and “advanced.” In the group, the characteristics of smart cities and the services they offer were taken into account. In this context, smart governance methods and their transformational effects are analyzed. Originality/value The most important contribution of this study to the literature is to identify the important characteristics of developed and successful smart city initiatives and to encourage their application to other developing world cities as a best practices model.

scholarly journals MAIN CRITERIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES DETERMINED USING ANALYTICAL METHOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zurinah Tahir ◽  
Jalaluddin Abdul Malek
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

A smart city is one that is highly developed, innovative, environment-friendly, and incorporates relevant aspects of the economy, technology, mobility, quality of life and other aspects that contribute to the well-being of its residents. To achieve the status of a smart city, several requirements, criteria or indicators need to be considered. Strategic decisions by planners of a smart city play an important role in determining how the city uses resources and opportunities through the harnessing of modern technology to build a framework of innovation that nurtures a healthy society in an economy that is dynamic and environment-conscious. Smart cities focus on various elements of humanity, learning, the environment, technological infrastructure, social development, and urban growth. The aim of this study is to examine these requisites of a smart city, and to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology in assigning weightage to each element that is considered essential to its development. Smart environment and smart mobility were found to be the top two important factors in the successful building of a smart city. The actual values that shape smart cities are based on a balance of factors such as smart environmental practices, smart governance, smart living, smart mobility, smart people, and smart economy. These principal key elements work together to exploit the technologies that help bring about the realization of a smart city.

scholarly journals A SYNOPSIS OF ROMANIA’S SMART CITIES INNITIATIVES

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (30 (1)) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Darie Gavrilut ◽  
Diana Teodora Trip ◽  
Carmen Florina Fagadar ◽  
Daniel Badulescu
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
National Level ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
The City

The term smart city is often associated with the desire for accelerated modernization of space and urban social interactions, especially based on Information and Communications Technologies. Smart cities are creative and sustainable areas that bring improvements on the quality of life, a friendlier environment and where the prospects of/for economic development are stronger. Such cities are to be considered as the sum of the various improvements in urban infrastructure, the quality of services provided to citizens, the operational costs of public administration. Romania has several key cities that have begun their pivot from regular and only digitized cities, to smart cities. According to information from the Romanian Smart City Association (ARSC), in 2018, at Romanian national level, 24 cities could be considered smart, the following cities being most visible in terms of how many projects have been undertaken so as to develop a smart city: Alba Iulia city has 60 such projects, Cluj-Napoca city has 10, Arad has 9, Sibiu and Oradea each have 8 projects, and Bucharest has started six such projects. At 2020 level, we notice an increase in the number of projects in the following way: Alba-Iulia now has 106 projects, Cluj-Napoca has 54 projects, Timisoara 26, Arad and Iasi have each 19 projects, Brasov and Bucuresti (Sector 4) have 18 projects each, Oradea 17, Sibiu 15, and Piatra Neamț 15 projects. The main areas of interest being Smart Mobility, Smart Governance, Smart Living, Smart Economy, Smart Environment, and Smart People. Having set goals of cutting energy costs by 30% in the field of public transportation and an increase of 45% in terms of innovation products that are to be sourced locally, the city of Oradea has attracted project worth 369 million euros, and this entire sum has been achieved through EU funded grants.

scholarly journals Big Data Dreams and Reality in Shenzhen: An Investigation of Smart City Implementation in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395172110451
Author(s):  
Jelena Große-Bley ◽  
Genia Kostka
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
City Development ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
Smart Governance

Chinese cities are increasingly using digital technologies to address urban problems and govern society. However, little is known about how this digital transition has been implemented. This study explores the introduction of digital governance in Shenzhen, one of China's most advanced smart cities. We show that, at the local level, the successful implementation of digital systems faces numerous hurdles in long-standing data management and bureaucratic practices that are at least as challenging as the technical problems. Furthermore, the study finds that the digital systems in Shenzhen entail a creeping centralisation of data that potentially turns lower administrative government units into mere users of the city-level smart platforms rather than being in control of their own data resources. Smart city development and big data ambitions thereby imply shifting stakeholder relations at the local level and also pull non-governmental stakeholders, such as information technology companies and research institutions, closer to new data flows and smart governance systems. The findings add to the discussion of big data-driven smart systems and their implications for governance processes in an authoritarian context.

scholarly journals Smart urban governance: an alternative to technocratic “smartness”

GeoJournal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaxiong Jiang ◽  
Stan Geertman ◽  
Patrick Witte
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Governance Modes

Abstract This paper argues for a specific urban planning perspective on smart governance that we call “smart urban governance,” which represents a move away from the technocratic way of governing cities often found in smart cities. A framework on smart urban governance is proposed on the basis of three intertwined key components, namely spatial, institutional, and technological components. To test the applicability of the framework, we conducted an international questionnaire survey on smart city projects. We then identified and discursively analyzed two smart city projects—Smart Nation Singapore and Helsinki Smart City—to illustrate how this framework works in practice. The questionnaire survey revealed that smart urban governance varies remarkably: As urban issues differ in different contexts, the governance modes and relevant ICT functionalities applied also differ considerably. Moreover, the case analysis indicates that a focus on substantive urban challenges helps to define appropriate modes of governance and develop dedicated technologies that can contribute to solving specific smart city challenges. The analyses of both cases highlight the importance of context (cultural, political, economic, etc.) in analyzing interactions between the components. In this, smart urban governance promotes a sociotechnical way of governing cities in the “smart” era by starting with the urban issue at stake, promoting demand-driven governance modes, and shaping technological intelligence more socially, given the specific context.

scholarly journals Appraisal of the drivers of smart city development in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayodeji Emmanuel Oke ◽  
Douglas O. Aghimien ◽  
Clinton O. Aigbavboa ◽  
Opeoluwa I. Akinradewo
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Smart Environment ◽  
City Development ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Multiple Choice Questionnaire ◽  
Smart Living ◽  
Smart Governance

The quest for smart cities and development has been on the increase among infrastructural development stakeholders, including clients, government agencies responsible for the management of infrastructures, construction professionals, sponsors, and financiers of these projects. However, studies around the world have shown that less attention is being paid by these stakeholders to various indices and measures of smart cities. These measures and indices, known as drivers, are smart environment, smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, and smart living. Using these drivers and their indicators, a multiple-choice questionnaire was designed in line with existing and relevant literature materials in the subject area. These questionnaires were administered on construction professionals with relevant and adequate knowledge of smart construction. Smart environment was found to be a major driver of a smart city while smart people, smart governance and smart living are also key to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the concept. The developed key smart city drivers are a workable, adaptable and efficient city design mechanism and it will be useful for city planners, statutory agencies as well other stakeholders in the development of smart cities.

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