The significance of digital data systems for smart city policy

Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter; Steenbruggen, John

doi:10.1016/j.seps.2016.10.001

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“…Paulin (2016) discusses the extent to which the use of ICTs permits the government of a smart city to steer and control systems and what this ability means for what he calls "sustainable governance evolution." After pointing to the many opportunities provided by ICTs to conduct smart urban policy, Kourtit et al (2017) demonstrate how these technologies have actually been used to effectively manage smartphone data systems. This and other such applications reveal the usefulness of ICTs in addressing a variety of problems that fall into the category of "complex urban management" issues.…”

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The optimal provision of information and communication technologies in smart cities

Batabyal

Beladi

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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We exploit the public good attributes of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy of two smart cities in which ICTs are provided in either a decentralized or a centralized manner. We first determine the efficient ICT levels that maximize the aggregate surplus from the provision of ICTs in the two cities. Second, we compute the optimal level of ICT provision in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on the ICTs is financed by a uniform tax on the city residents. Third, we ascertain the optimal level of ICT provision in the two cities in a centralized regime subject to equal provision of ICTs and cost sharing. Fourth, we show that if the two cities have the same preference for ICTs then centralization is preferable to decentralization as long as there is a spillover from the provision of ICTs. Finally, we show that if the two cities have dissimilar preferences for ICTs then centralization is preferable to decentralization as long as the spillover exceeds a certain threshold.

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The optimal provision of information and communication technologies in smart cities

Batabyal

Beladi

2019

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…What differentiates smart city policy making from traditional policy making is the governance in the policy-making [27]. Kourtit et al [28] further demonstrates ICT as a key driver of smart cities policies. Considering this, the generic process (as shown in Figure 3) is applicable for capturing policy processes in smart cities.…”

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An Adaptable System to Support Provenance Management for the Public Policy-Making Process in Smart Cities

2018

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Government policies aim to address public issues and problems and therefore play a pivotal role in people's lives. The creation of public policies, however, is complex given the perspective of large and diverse stakeholders' involvement, considerable human participation, lengthy processes, complex task specification and the non-deterministic nature of the process. The inherent complexities of the policy process impart challenges for designing a computing system that assists in supporting and automating the business process pertaining to policy setup, which also raises concerns for setting up a tracking service in the policy-making environment. A tracking service informs how decisions have been taken during policy creation and can provide useful and intrinsic information regarding the policy process. At present, there exists no computing system that assists in tracking the complete process that has been employed for policy creation. To design such a system, it is important to consider the policy environment challenges; for this a novel network and goal based approach has been framed and is covered in detail in this paper. Furthermore, smart governance objectives that include stakeholders' participation and citizens' involvement have been considered. Thus, the proposed approach has been devised by considering smart governance principles and the knowledge environment of policy making where tasks are largely dependent on policy makers' decisions and on individual policy objectives. Our approach reckons the human dimension for deciding and defining autonomous process activities at run time. Furthermore, with the network-based approach, so-called provenance data tracking is employed which enables the capture of policy process.

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“…(Holeman et al, 2016;Dawes, 2009) Digital technologies are instrumental in assisting maturing entities attain strategic objectives. (Kourtit et al, 2017;Myeong et al, 2014) The relevance that entities establish on employing digital technology to enhance cutting edge and decision making differs by digital maturity degree. The exponential alterations that stimulate digital evolution confront the conventional patterns of leadership (Popescu Ljungholm, 2016) and governance.…”

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Participatory Forms of Digital Governance and People-Powered Services

Popescu¹,

Creager²

2017

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Relying on recent research on how governments and individuals activate in a digital setting, leaving electronic traces that bring about immense volumes of data about themselves and any interplays they have, we first analyze the broader theoretical arguments that prove that information and knowledge create capacity for cutting edge, performance, and the sharpness to adjust to a swiftly altering environment. We advance primary empirical research for the main case study that clarifies that there are cultural obstacles to employing social media and adopting the digital timestream, and advancing the data science abilities required to obtain public usefulness from big data. We use meta-analysis to inspect the evidence that Internet and mobile-based digital technologies favour co-production and cocreation: at the separate level, most individuals handle their matters with government as they do with their bank; at the shared level, co-production may entail a type of crowdsourcing, where individuals inform governments of non-necessity issues in proximities, while at the strategy level, co-production advances so as to achieve co-creation, individuals employing the government as stage notion to co-create both strategy and services. Based on this evidence, we exemplify arguments that governments are unsuccessful in taking advantage of the affordances of big data, whereas individuals are powerless to connect with government digitally as they do with companies or social undertakings.

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The significance of digital data systems for smart city policy

Cited by 78 publications

References 53 publications

The optimal provision of information and communication technologies in smart cities

The optimal provision of information and communication technologies in smart cities

An Adaptable System to Support Provenance Management for the Public Policy-Making Process in Smart Cities

Participatory Forms of Digital Governance and People-Powered Services

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