“…This is because it provides autonomy and agility to the various administrative division of the city also to develop and implement their developmental policies. This agrees with Bardhan andMookherjee (2006), Chattopadhyay, (2012) and Faguet, (2012) statement that decentralisation of city management will advance the responsiveness and effectiveness of local governance, advance local participation and increase the voice of citizens. Furthermore, it will increase economic growth and social justice, thereby giving the minority population control over their affairs and matters which affects them.…”
Section: Gender Equalitysupporting
confidence: 79%
“…Furthermore, it will increase economic growth and social justice, thereby giving the minority population control over their affairs and matters which affects them. (Faguet, 2012). Additionally, the concept of smart city proposes that a city can be regarded as smart when it emphasises the inventiveness and creativity of its citizens (Capdevila and Zarlenga, 2015).…”
Purpose
This study aims to promote the idea that social equity is a significant objective that needs to be achieved to attain a smart city and further reveal the current research focus of smart city in relation to social equity. Also, it will propose determinants of social equity for smart city development.
Design/methodology/approach
The first part of this study was conducted by reviewing ten existing smart city models and assessing their elements, in a bid to find a relationship between the existing smart city models and social equity. These models were sorts from scholarly publications such as books, journals and other related articles sourced from google scholar and Scopus database. To give more credence to this study, a second aspect of this study was necessary; this was conducted using a bibliometric approach, and the data was gathered from the Scopus database. Keywords such as “smart-city” OR “Digital-city” OR “Intelligent-city” OR “Computer-city” OR “Technology-city” AND “Social-equity” were used for article extraction. VOSview was used to analyse the bibliographic data obtained.
Findings
This research revealed that studies that relate, link or discuss the idea that social equity is a significant objective that needs to be achieved to attain a smart city are low considering that only 48 articles were extracted, and most of the studies did not specifically focus on social equity in smart city development. Further findings revealed that the ten reviewed smart city models never linked or discussed the idea of social equity in smart city development. Additionally, this study revealed that emerging countries aiming to develop smart cities, particularly in Africa, are not paying much attention to the importance of creating social equity policies to attain smart cities.
Practical implications
This study revealed a knowledge gap in the study of smart cities in developing countries. Governments of various developing countries can implement the ideas from this study by creating and applying social equity policies to drive sustainable development, which will positively influence smart city attainment.
Originality/value
The contribution of this study is that it promotes the idea that social equity is a significant objective that needs to be achieved to attain smart cities. This study’s further originality and value lie in adopting a bibliometric approach of analysis that has not been used in this form in previous studies.
“…This is because it provides autonomy and agility to the various administrative division of the city also to develop and implement their developmental policies. This agrees with Bardhan andMookherjee (2006), Chattopadhyay, (2012) and Faguet, (2012) statement that decentralisation of city management will advance the responsiveness and effectiveness of local governance, advance local participation and increase the voice of citizens. Furthermore, it will increase economic growth and social justice, thereby giving the minority population control over their affairs and matters which affects them.…”
Section: Gender Equalitysupporting
confidence: 79%
“…Furthermore, it will increase economic growth and social justice, thereby giving the minority population control over their affairs and matters which affects them. (Faguet, 2012). Additionally, the concept of smart city proposes that a city can be regarded as smart when it emphasises the inventiveness and creativity of its citizens (Capdevila and Zarlenga, 2015).…”
Purpose
This study aims to promote the idea that social equity is a significant objective that needs to be achieved to attain a smart city and further reveal the current research focus of smart city in relation to social equity. Also, it will propose determinants of social equity for smart city development.
Design/methodology/approach
The first part of this study was conducted by reviewing ten existing smart city models and assessing their elements, in a bid to find a relationship between the existing smart city models and social equity. These models were sorts from scholarly publications such as books, journals and other related articles sourced from google scholar and Scopus database. To give more credence to this study, a second aspect of this study was necessary; this was conducted using a bibliometric approach, and the data was gathered from the Scopus database. Keywords such as “smart-city” OR “Digital-city” OR “Intelligent-city” OR “Computer-city” OR “Technology-city” AND “Social-equity” were used for article extraction. VOSview was used to analyse the bibliographic data obtained.
Findings
This research revealed that studies that relate, link or discuss the idea that social equity is a significant objective that needs to be achieved to attain a smart city are low considering that only 48 articles were extracted, and most of the studies did not specifically focus on social equity in smart city development. Further findings revealed that the ten reviewed smart city models never linked or discussed the idea of social equity in smart city development. Additionally, this study revealed that emerging countries aiming to develop smart cities, particularly in Africa, are not paying much attention to the importance of creating social equity policies to attain smart cities.
Practical implications
This study revealed a knowledge gap in the study of smart cities in developing countries. Governments of various developing countries can implement the ideas from this study by creating and applying social equity policies to drive sustainable development, which will positively influence smart city attainment.
Originality/value
The contribution of this study is that it promotes the idea that social equity is a significant objective that needs to be achieved to attain smart cities. This study’s further originality and value lie in adopting a bibliometric approach of analysis that has not been used in this form in previous studies.
“…Research has also shown that prominent organizations will at times deploy their resources to influence and reinforce the status quo (Choi & Robertson, 2014; Swyngedouw, 2005). Yet, they are more likely to use their resources to benefit the network when there are high levels of social capital (Oh & Bush, 2014) and in decentralized governance structures, as opposed to traditional hierarchical ones, because the former can weaken dependencies between the central government and local organizations (Faguet, 2012; O’Neill, 2003; Persha & Andersson, 2014).…”
Section: Resource Contributions Within Local Governance Networkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the one hand, decentralization brings the organizations responsible for making decisions and providing services ‘closer to the people’. It often provides a mandate for leadership to one or more of those organizations, which can lessen dependencies between local and central actors, reinforce some degree of local autonomy and discretion in terms of decision‐making and self‐organization, and may make it easier for local authorities to interact with each other and monitor and enforce cooperative behavior among network participants, relative to centrally administered networks (Bossert, 1998; Faguet, 2012; LeRoux et al, 2010; O’Neill, 2003; Persha & Andersson, 2014; Provan & Milward, 2001). Together, this view of decentralization suggests that the reform would have positive consequences for motivating or engendering collective action among organizations in contributing resources within the local governance network. Decentralization Crowding‐in Proposition (P1a) : Organizations situated in decentralized settings will contribute more resources than those in centrally administered settings.…”
Section: Resource Contributions Within Local Governance Networkmentioning
Many public services are co‐produced through networks of governmental and non‐governmental organizations that choose to or are obliged to contribute resources, a trend that has been reinforced through decentralization reforms. We utilize original data for 826 organizations across 65 local governance networks to assess how decentralization affects resource contributions while accounting for municipality context, network environment, and organizational attributes. Drawing on a quasi‐experimental design in the context of health sector reform in Honduras, we find that decentralization is associated with a slight reduction in the number of resource ties an organization contributes to other organizations in its network. This association is most prominent where municipal governments, rather than non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) or associations, are lead intermediary organizations under decentralization. Additionally, NGOs contribute more resource ties relative to community associations or public organizations, and consistent with a crowding‐out dynamic, we find that this relationship is attenuated under decentralization. Our results suggest that administrative reforms can influence resource contributing behavior by organizations and the structure of inter‐organizational networks, which are important but underemphasized mechanisms potentially linking decentralization to service delivery outcomes. This is particularly relevant for policymakers working to support network governance for the joint production of public services in under‐resourced settings.
“…The literature revealed that governments often engage in reforms to improve PSP (Grillos et al, 2021;The World Bank, 2004) or improve accountability to provide better public services (Blair, 2000;Faguet, 2012;Ribot, 2002). Some changes are made to improve administrative capacity (Brinkerhoff & Brinkerhoff, 2015).…”
Section: Introduction and Background Of The Studymentioning
An analysis of the performance and efficiency of the Namibian government’s interventions after the end of the colonial era has been made in this study for the period 1990 to 2015. Using the Afonso et al. public sector performance (PSP) and public sector efficiency (PSE) method and the Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), the findings reveal a sluggishly improving efficiency in the public sector in Namibia. However, some performance indicators showed significant improvement, while others did not record any substantial improvement. Progress is recorded in government efforts and programmes to reduce inequality and poverty, but the outputs moved at a plodding pace. Programmes and policies to reduce unemployment failed to produce the expected outcomes. Additionally, technical progress has been very slow since independence, as reflected by the technical efficiency parameter. The findings suggest a need to improve the public sector’s performance and efficiency to ensure stability and accelerate growth in the previously colonized economies with the same features as Namibia. JEL Classification: H00, H11, H89, L38
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