Sustainability of Smart Cities

2022 ◽  
pp. 180-193
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Short Review ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Success Criteria ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Different Levels

The issue of sustainability of smart cities is approached in this chapter from two different angles: dimensions sector-specific and city governance. Following a short review of smart city sectors, emphasis is placed on the concept of smart governance of cities. The concept of smart governance is reviewed especially regarding cooperation with city governments of other cities within the region or country and empowering citizens. Different levels are presented with focus on four main conditions for smart governance, namely participation in decision-making, public and social services, transparent governance, and political strategies and perspectives. The chapter presents sustainability of smart governance through a paradigm of sustainability as an effectual model based on sustainability, wellbeing, productivity, and resilience. Finally, the chapter addresses the success criteria of sustainable smart cities regarding different aspects, such open data, agility to new technologies, cross-sectoral harmonization, and careful policy, strategy, and program alignment.

Smart City Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 1417-1453
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Matos Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Public Decision

Smart governance is one of the characteristics of smart cities, having its roots in e-government, in the principles of good governance, and in the assumptions of citizens' participation and involvement in public decision-making. This chapter aims to answer the question: “What smart governance practices are being implemented in smart cities” through an extensive literature review in the areas of e-government, good governance, smart cities and smart governance, and content analysis of the websites of seven smart cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Manchester, Singapore, and Stockholm. The objective was to identify the presence of factors related with e-participation; e-services; and public administration functioning on the cities' websites. The chapter ends with directions for future research and the conclusion that all the smart cities analyzed presented some factors related with smart governance, but with different levels of development and application.

Smart City Governance

2017 ◽  
pp. 290-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Matos Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Public Decision

Smart governance is one of the characteristics of smart cities, having its roots in e-government, in the principles of good governance, and in the assumptions of citizens' participation and involvement in public decision-making. This chapter aims to answer the question: “What smart governance practices are being implemented in smart cities” through an extensive literature review in the areas of e-government, good governance, smart cities and smart governance, and content analysis of the websites of seven smart cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Manchester, Singapore, and Stockholm. The objective was to identify the presence of factors related with e-participation; e-services; and public administration functioning on the cities' websites. The chapter ends with directions for future research and the conclusion that all the smart cities analyzed presented some factors related with smart governance, but with different levels of development and application.

Smart City Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 196-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Rosário Matos Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Public Decision

Smart governance is one of the characteristics of smart cities, having its roots in e-government, in the principles of good governance, and in the assumptions of citizens' participation and involvement in public decision-making. This chapter aims to answer the question: “What smart governance practices are being implemented in smart cities” through an extensive literature review in the areas of e-government, good governance, smart cities and smart governance, and content analysis of the websites of seven smart cities: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Manchester, Singapore, and Stockholm. The objective was to identify the presence of factors related with e-participation; e-services; and public administration functioning on the cities' websites. The chapter ends with directions for future research and the conclusion that all the smart cities analyzed presented some factors related with smart governance, but with different levels of development and application.

PP142 A Mental Health Hospital-based Health Technology Assessment In Quebec, Canada: Structure And Products

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. 137-138
Author(s):  
Ionela Gheorghiu ◽  
Alain Lesage ◽  
Adam Mongodin ◽  
Marlène Galdin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Decision Making Process

INTRODUCTION:Our Hospital-based Health Technology Assessment unit (HB-HTA) was founded in 2011 following the nomination of Louis-H. Lafontaine hospital as the Montreal University Mental Health Institute (IUSMM). From the beginning, the HB-HTA has been supporting and advising the Chief Executive Officer of IUSMM in the decision-making process concerning the implementation of new technologies and practices in mental health. Since 2015, the HB-HTA is part of the East of Montreal Regional Integrated Health and Social Services Centre (CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l’Île de Montréal), continuing to support decisions in mental health. Currently, the HB-HTA unit is nested in the Quality, Performance and Ethics department.METHODS:Formed by a coordinator, a scientific advisor and a manager, the HB-HTA team plans, organizes and sets up the evaluation activities. The unit benefits from the support of a Steering Committee which consists of representatives of clinical, administrative and research directions, as well as of health users and families. This committee determine the strategic orientation of the HB-HTA unit, prioritize the projects, approves the evaluation products and gives indications on the knowledge transfer process.RESULTS:To answer the decision questions, our HB-HTA unit employs two types of products: evaluation reports and informative notes. Based on an exhaustive literature search and consultations with stakeholders, the evaluation reports offer recommendations to support the decision-making process. The informative notes are rapid responses based on a partial literature search. The nature of this type of analysis does not allow the formulation of recommendations, however, a conclusion of the consulted literature is offered.CONCLUSIONS:Based on the work of our HB-HTA unit, some important decisions were made by the IUSMM. As an example, the systematic screening of psychiatric patients for drug and alcohol was not favored by our institution; rather than this, priority was given to staff training, in order to better identify and treat psychiatric patients with substance abuse comorbidity.

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.

scholarly journals Expected Participation and Mentality of Smart Citizen in Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katalin Feher
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Smart Environments ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Decision Making

The goal of the paper is to investigate the expected participation and mentality of smart citizens in smart cities. The key question is the role of the human factor in smart environments globally studied through a research corpus of the mainstream summaries, trend reports, white papers and visions of business – governmental – university research co- operations. Foremost, a short review of the changing scholarly trends is presented as a theoretical framework. Concerning its key ideas, the corpus based findings are recapped and analysed by content networks and the most referred city strategies. Besides, a critical approach reveal further required factors and risks to investigate. The ultimate goal is to understand how the smart city landscape is shaped by citizen-based strategies, open data, empowerment and responsibility. Accordingly, the paper closes with theoretical, practical and metaphor-based recommendations to support the business and political decision making, and also, the emerging scholarly trends in the context of upcoming technological-structural changes.

scholarly journals PERHITUNGAN TINGKAT KESIAPAN IMPLEMENTASI SMART CITY DALAM PERSPEKTIF SMART GOVERNANCE DENGAN METODE FIS MAMDANI

Dinamik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Sri Eniyati ◽  
Rina Candra Noor Santi ◽  
Retnowati Retnowati ◽  
Sri Mulyani ◽  
Khristma Martha
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Fuzzy Inference System ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Participation In Decision Making ◽  
Smart Governance

Smart City adalah skonsep tata kota yang mengoptimalkan teknologi informasi dan digital untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan dan kebahagiaan masyarakat, serta meningkatkan layanan Pemerintah. Kota Pekalongan sedang berupaya untuk mempersiapkan diri dalam proses implementasi Smart City. Dalam referensi diketahui bahwa salah satu indikator kesiapan implementasi Smart City adalah Smart Governance, yang terdiri atasi empat indikator utama yaitu Participation in decision-making, public and social services, Transparent Governance, political strategies and perspectives. Dari keempat indikator tersebut diperjelas ke dalam indikator operasional yang lebih mudah diukur secara kuantitatif. Oleh sebab itu metode penelitian dipilih mix research methods karena data yang diperoleh dilakukan melalui cara kualitatif dengan wawancara kepada narasumber. Hasil data dikelola dan diolah menggunakan cara kuantitatif. Cara kuantitatif tersebut adalah metode Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) Mamdani. Dari keempat indikator utama diturunkan menjadi 21 variabel input Hasil yang diperoleh adalah tingkat kesiapan Kota Pekalongan dalam mengimplementasikan Smart City dari Perspektif Smart Governance adalah 1,5 (Sedang).

scholarly journals A Smart Decision System for Digital Farming

Agronomy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Cambra Baseca ◽  
Sandra Sendra ◽  
Jaime Lloret ◽  
Jesus Tomas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Aerial Images ◽  
Sampled Data ◽  
Application Development

New technologies have the potential to transform agriculture and to reduce environmental impact through a green revolution. Internet of Things (IoT)-based application development platforms have the potential to run farm management tools capable of monitoring real-time events when integrated into interactive innovation models for fertirrigation. Their capabilities must extend to flexible reconfiguration of programmed actions. IoT platforms require complex smart decision-making systems based on data-analysis and data mining of big data sets. In this paper, the advantages are demonstrated of a powerful tool that applies real-time decisions from data such as variable rate irrigation, and selected parameters from field and weather conditions. The field parameters, the index vegetation (estimated using aerial images), and the irrigation events, such as flow level, pressure level, and wind speed, are periodically sampled. Data is processed in a decision-making system based on learning prediction rules in conjunction with the Drools rule engine. The multimedia platform can be remotely controlled, and offers a smart farming open data network with shared restriction levels for information exchange oriented to farmers, the fertilizer provider, and agricultural technicians that should provide the farmer with added value in the form of better decision making or more efficient exploitation operations and management.

Deconstructing Smart Cities

Big Data ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 1957-1969
Author(s):  
Michael Batty
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The City

This chapter defines the smart city in terms of the process whereby computers and computation are being embedded into the very fabric of the city itself. In short, the smart city is the automated city where the goal is to improve the efficiency of how the city functions. These new technologies tend to improve the performance of cities in the short term with respect to how cities function over minutes, hours or days rather than over years or decades. After establishing definitions and context, the author then explores questions of big data. One important challenge is to synthesize or integrate different data about the city's functioning and this provides an enormous challenge which presents many obstacles to producing coherent solutions to diverse urban problems. The chapter augments this argument with ideas about how the emergence of widespread computation provides a new interface to the public realm through which citizens might participate in rather fuller and richer ways than hitherto, through interactions in various kinds of decision-making about the future city. The author concludes with some speculations as to how the emerging science of smart cities fits into the wider science of cities.

Deconstructing Smart Cities

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Batty
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
The City

This chapter defines the smart city in terms of the process whereby computers and computation are being embedded into the very fabric of the city itself. In short, the smart city is the automated city where the goal is to improve the efficiency of how the city functions. These new technologies tend to improve the performance of cities in the short term with respect to how cities function over minutes, hours or days rather than over years or decades. After establishing definitions and context, the author then explores questions of big data. One important challenge is to synthesize or integrate different data about the city's functioning and this provides an enormous challenge which presents many obstacles to producing coherent solutions to diverse urban problems. The chapter augments this argument with ideas about how the emergence of widespread computation provides a new interface to the public realm through which citizens might participate in rather fuller and richer ways than hitherto, through interactions in various kinds of decision-making about the future city. The author concludes with some speculations as to how the emerging science of smart cities fits into the wider science of cities.

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