scholarly journals Making Indian cities smart: Framing incongruencies and reconciliation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Cranefield
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Technological Frames Of Reference ◽  
Indian Cities

© 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019. All rights reserved. Smart cities aim to utilize information technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of urban infrastructure and service delivery, and to advance the agenda of sustainability. Smart cities typically involve a variety of stakeholders with diverse agendas. In this study, we seek to explore incongruencies in stakeholder perspectives and identify how these are negotiated and reconciled. We examine the evolution of a smart city initiative in Bhubaneswar, an Indian city, over a three-year period, focusing on the divergence of stakeholder perspectives. We draw upon Technological Frames of Reference theory in identifying framing incongruencies present in the city's foundational frames. We understand these through the underlying frameworks of archetypal core constitutive values. We delineate mechanisms used to reconcile the incongruencies through building a shared foundational frame, boundary spanning, perspective seeking and cultural adaptation of technology-in-use. The study has implications for deliberately designed mechanisms that can aid inversion and negotiation of incongruent frames.

scholarly journals Making Indian cities smart: Framing incongruencies and reconciliation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Cranefield
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Stakeholder Perspectives ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Indian City ◽  
Technological Frames Of Reference ◽  
Indian Cities

© 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019. All rights reserved. Smart cities aim to utilize information technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness of urban infrastructure and service delivery, and to advance the agenda of sustainability. Smart cities typically involve a variety of stakeholders with diverse agendas. In this study, we seek to explore incongruencies in stakeholder perspectives and identify how these are negotiated and reconciled. We examine the evolution of a smart city initiative in Bhubaneswar, an Indian city, over a three-year period, focusing on the divergence of stakeholder perspectives. We draw upon Technological Frames of Reference theory in identifying framing incongruencies present in the city's foundational frames. We understand these through the underlying frameworks of archetypal core constitutive values. We delineate mechanisms used to reconcile the incongruencies through building a shared foundational frame, boundary spanning, perspective seeking and cultural adaptation of technology-in-use. The study has implications for deliberately designed mechanisms that can aid inversion and negotiation of incongruent frames.

scholarly journals SMART CITIES AND SUSTAINABLE URBANISM: A STUDY FROM POLICY AND DESIGN PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihir Bholey
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Sustainable Urbanism ◽  
Technology Intervention ◽  
Indian Cities ◽  
Recent Policy

This paper examines India’s foray into building hundred smart cities from multiple perspectives viz. urban challenges, urban policies, sustainable urbanism, emerging global models and design and technology intervention. It also evaluates the relative challenges of building new smart cities like Masdar or Songdo and applying smart interventions to retrofit the aging and ailing urban infrastructure of the existing Indian cities. Based on the data from the secondary sources it examines the priority areas and the possibilities of making smart intervention through use of appropriate technology and design. While doing so, it brings into discussion India’s urban challenges and its policy of urban development over the years besides the recurring development deficit. Today, Indian cities are faced with huge infrastructure deficit which reflects in their performance and service delivery. The imperative to ensure urban rejuvenation now reflects in the recent policy of creating hundred smart cities in India. This paper also discusses howtechnology and design interventions at appropriate levels canaugment urban infrastructure and make a sustainable urban eco-system called smart city.

Systematization of the smart city civil engineering infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-779
Author(s):  
E.V. Popov ◽  
K.A. Semyachkov ◽  
K.V. Zhunusova
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
Civil Engineering Infrastructure ◽  
Functional Transformations

Subject. This article explores the basic elements of the engineering infrastructure of smart cities. Objectives. The article aims to systematize theoretical descriptions of the engineering infrastructure of a smart city. Methods. For the study, we used a logical analysis and systematization. Results. The article highlights the main areas of infrastructure development of smart cities. Conclusions. Improving process management mechanisms, optimizing urban infrastructure, increasing the use of digital technologies, and developing socio-economic innovation improve the quality of the urban environment in a digitalized environment. And improving the efficiency of urban planning and security, studying its properties and characteristics, and forming an effective urban information system lead to its functional transformations.

scholarly journals Glimpses of Ancient Indian Town Planning for Building Modern Heritage Cities

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 07-11
Author(s):  
SURESHA RAJA
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Drainage Water ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
Water Supply Systems ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Vedic Literature ◽  
Architectural Knowledge ◽  
Supply Systems ◽  
Indian Cities ◽  
Future Growth

Ancient Indians had a good architectural knowledge that is evident from the various temples, palaces, forts and other monuments seen spread all around the country. With vast urban population and pilgrim centers, the knowledge of town planning was to be very effective and the ancient Indians enunciated the rules of town planning in their ancient architectural treatises. Glimpses of these features are also to be found in earlier archaeological finds, texts belonging to the Vedic, Epic and Purānic periods. The features of various cities and town planning aspects dealt in these texts are first briefly described that serve as a model for developing Modern Heritage cities. Since hundred Indian cities are soon going to be developed as ‘Smart-Cities’, it would be apt and imperative to discuss the concept of Heritage-Cities as well. Just as the Smart-Cities would be the torchbearers of future growth; Heritage-Cities connect us to our glorious past. Thus, in this paper, humble efforts are made to identify and recognize the valuable factors that contribute to enhance the charm of Heritage-Cities giving a brief overview of earlier Town planning features from ancient Indian texts. Ancient Indians had a well planned system of building villages, towns, intricate drainage, water supply systems, markets, palaces, households and public spaces that are evident from archeological and literary sources. The features mentioned in Vedic, epic and post-Vedic literature could serve as a model for modern town planning, for harmonious living with nature.

scholarly journals Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 11085
Author(s):  
José I. Huertas ◽  
Jürgen Mahlknecht ◽  
Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos ◽  
Sergio Uribe ◽  
Enrique A. López-Guajardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Smart Campus ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Creative Talent ◽  
Energy Challenge ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This work presents the Campus City initiative followed by the Challenge Living Lab platform to promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship with the intention to create urban infrastructure and creative talent (human resources) that solves different community, industrial and government Pain Points within a Smart City ecosystem. The main contribution of this work is to present a working model and the open innovation ecosystem used in Tecnologico de Monterrey that could be used as both, a learning mechanism as well as a base model for scaling it up into a Smart Campus and Smart City. Moreover, this work presents the Smart Energy challenge as an example of a pedagogic opportunity for the development of competencies. This included the pedagogic design of the challenge, the methodology followed by the students and the results. Finally, a discussion on the findings and learnings of the model and challenge implementation. Results showed that Campus City initiative and the Challenge Living Lab allows the identification of highly relevant and meaningful challenges while providing a pedagogic framework in which students are highly motivated, engaged, and prepared to tackle different problems that involve government, community, industry, and academia.

scholarly journals Co-creating value: Student contributions to smart cities

2014 ◽  
pp. 392-409
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Response And Recovery

Given the interdependence of the public and private sectors and simultaneous and massive impact of widespread disasters on the entire community, this paper investigates the use of information technologies, specifically geospatial information systems, within the multi-organizational community to effectively co-create value during disaster response and recovery efforts. We present and examine in depth a participatory action research project in a disaster-experienced coastal community conducted during the 2006-2014 time period. The results of the action research project and analysis of a survey completed by stakeholders leads to a list of findings, in particular those related to developing a model of next generation learning design where students are co-creators of value to the smart cities.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SMART CITIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 229 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
MAKSIM D. PUSHKAREV ◽  
◽  
DMITRY A. PROKOFIEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Smart city technologies make the functioning of urban infrastructure more efficient, and the lives of citizens more comfortable and safe. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were very popular, and this could not but affect the energy efficiency of high-tech megacities around the world. This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smart cities, and also offers a solution to the problem of energy efficiency of smart cities.

Smart cities: existing security problems and their solutions

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
Vugar Hajimahmud Abdullayev ◽  
◽  
Vusala Alyag Abuzarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
The Internet ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology

The article is devoted to the study of cyber security problems in the Smart Cities system. The development of the IT industry has led to the introduction of new technologies into our lives. One of these technologies is the Internet of Things technology. The application of IoT technology has increased in recent years. One of the most important areas in which Internet of Things technology is applied is the Smart Cities system. The main difference between smart cities and other cities is that their components are connected to each other via the Internet. All these smart devices create a smart city system in general. One of the biggest and most important problems in many areas where the Internet is used is security. The article looks at possible security problems in the system of smart cities and solutions to ensure cyber security. Key words: Smart city; Internet of Things; Information technologies; Security; Cyber security

Performance Evaluation of Sustainable Smart Cities in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-40
Author(s):  
Rajeev Ranjan ◽  
Prasenjit Chatterjee ◽  
Dilbagh Panchal ◽  
Dragan Pamucar
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Color Coding ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
System Method ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Individual Criterion ◽  
Indian Cities ◽  
Holistic Manner

Indian cities have seen accelerated economic and social growth, attracting more and more people from all parts of the country. Growth achieved by cities is linked to their ability to address issues related to urbanization and associated social, environmental, and economic issues in a holistic manner, while making the most of future opportunities. In this chapter, using PROMETHEE and GAIA (geometrical analysis for interactive aid) approaches, an attempt is made to evaluate the performances of 20 smart cities in Indian context based on 10 critically important criteria. A GIS (geographic information system) method and an HSV (hue-saturation-value) color coding scheme-based on cartographic principles are also employed to identify the influence of individual criterion on the overall rank of the smart cities. This analysis would help the decision makers to identify the strengths and deficiencies of Indian smart cities with respect to considered criteria conditions so that proper promotional and growth actions can be implemented.

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