Distributed Ledgers for Enhanced Machine-to-Machine Trust in Smart Cities

Hickert, Cameron; Tekeoglu, Ali; Maurio, Joseph; Watson, Ryan; Syed, Daniel; Chavis, Jeffrey S.; Brown, Gill; Sookoor, Tamim

doi:10.1109/icccn54977.2022.9868905

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“…Of particular concern is how the communities governing DLTs at present tend to be poorly structured and organized compared to the established organizations that govern conventional digital technologies, therefore citizens may perceive it as risky and unstable (Zachariadis et al, 2019). Additionally, DLTs suffer from technical, social, and economic barriers to their adoption that need to be addressed so that these platforms are truly citizen-centric (Alnahari and Ariaratnam, 2022; Hickert et al, 2022; Radu, 2020). For example, DLTs can be complex and difficult to understand for people who are unfamiliar with the technology, making it difficult to adopt and use the system effectively.…”

Section: Smart Enough To Common?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“Governing the urban commons”: DLT, institutions, and citizens in perspective

2023

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Borrowing from insights produced in urban planning, media and governance studies thereby leveraging the Ostrom-nian ideas of institutions and polycentricity, this paper examines how to govern commons in the smart city. It offers a reflection upon whether Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) could be a key notion for the commons discourse which centers around stakeholders, self-organization, and a rights-based framework. By decentralizing ledgers and enabling the interoperability of the various interfaces, DLTs make records more accessible, exchanges more transparent, and reduce costs while increasing efficiency, and permit automation, therefore commoning interactions both offline and online are facilitated. We argue that the use of DLTs to preserve the spatiotemporal integrity of key urban spaces is a common value question that needs to be elucidated or renegotiated in order to provide any useful guidance to DLTs integrity-preserving potential. In doing so, we draw attention to DLT-based urban commons and urban governance, and point to inherent incompatibilities that may lead to radical and not-so-smooth changes in urban institutions, while providing a way of thinking which can move the smart city closer towards a values-centered process and away from a preoccupation with technology and efficiency.

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