TY - CHAP
T1 - A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City
T2 - Smartness as Technologies and Innovation in Urban Contexts
AU - Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
AU - Pardo, Theresa A.
AU - Nam, Taewoo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This chapter introduces important concepts such as smart cities, innovation, technologies, and “smartness” in government. It argues that a concept of smart city should be more than the use of information technologies in local governments. The study and analysis of cities today requires a multidimensional and multifaceted concept and, therefore, multiple components. Some of these components are (1) public services, (2) city administration and management, (3) policies and other institutional arrangements, (4) governance and collaboration, (5) human capital and creativity, (6) knowledge economy and pro-business environment, (7) built environment and city infrastructure, (8) natural environment and ecological sustainability, (9) ICT and other technologies, and (10) data and information. In addition, the authors refer to smartness as public sector innovation in urban contexts. A comprehensive view of a smart city should encompass government innovation in management and policy as well as technology and must acknowledge how the context of a city shapes the data and the technological, organizational, and policy aspects of a specific initiative. The chapter also briefly describes the content and the target audience of this book.
AB - This chapter introduces important concepts such as smart cities, innovation, technologies, and “smartness” in government. It argues that a concept of smart city should be more than the use of information technologies in local governments. The study and analysis of cities today requires a multidimensional and multifaceted concept and, therefore, multiple components. Some of these components are (1) public services, (2) city administration and management, (3) policies and other institutional arrangements, (4) governance and collaboration, (5) human capital and creativity, (6) knowledge economy and pro-business environment, (7) built environment and city infrastructure, (8) natural environment and ecological sustainability, (9) ICT and other technologies, and (10) data and information. In addition, the authors refer to smartness as public sector innovation in urban contexts. A comprehensive view of a smart city should encompass government innovation in management and policy as well as technology and must acknowledge how the context of a city shapes the data and the technological, organizational, and policy aspects of a specific initiative. The chapter also briefly describes the content and the target audience of this book.
KW - Data
KW - Digital government
KW - Electronic government
KW - Information technologies
KW - Innovation
KW - Organizational change
KW - Policy
KW - Smart city
KW - Smart government
KW - Smartness
KW - Urban context
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85064750005
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8_1
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85064750005
T3 - Public Administration and Information Technology
SP - 1
EP - 19
BT - Public Administration and Information Technology
PB - Springer
ER -
