Demographics and Sociographics of the Digital City

Besselaar, Peter van den; Beckers, Dennis

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“…In Europe, the European Digital Cities Conference has been held annually from 1994 to discuss a wide variety of topics including "the role of cities, towns, and regions in the deployment of advanced telematics solutions within the development of the Information Society". Digital City Amsterdam networking systems, and succeeded to introduce the city metaphor in the regional information services, was built as a platform for various community [6]. In Japan, Ishida etc., used three years to develop a digital city for Kyoto, which builds the interface layer provides 2D and 3D views of the city, the information layer integrates real-time sensory information related to the city, and the interaction layer assists social interaction among people who are living/visiting in/at the city [7].…”

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Opportunities and Challenges for the Construction of a Smart City Geo-Spatial Framework in a Small Urban Area in Central China

2019

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In 2006, China lunched its first Digital City initiative to build a national geo-spatial framework. Over the past ten years, 511 county-cities benefited from the national initiative with funding and technical resources channeled from the central government. Has the initiative achieved its goals? How has the geo-spatial framework affected local governmental administration, public services, business operation, and the daily life of citizens? What lessons can be learned from the ten-year experience of digital city development? Answering these questions is of important policy, scholarly, and practical interest. The Digital City initiative set the foundation for building smart cities that China’s central government agencies and many local municipalities are currently pursuing. A review in retrospect of China’s digital city development helps inform future Smart City investment decisions and related policy making in the nation. Lessons learned from the Chinese experience are also valuable to cities in other countries.

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Section: In Other Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opportunities and Challenges for the Construction of a Smart City Geo-Spatial Framework in a Small Urban Area in Central China

2019

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“…Van den Besselaar and Beckers (1998, p. 108) sum up the fate of digital cities: “use of the Digital City is mainly recreational, and not yet integrated with other aspects of daily life” (see also van den Besselaar, 2001). The fate of digital cities may be tied to the different needs of governments at the local level versus those at the state and federal levels.…”

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Digital government

Robertson

Vatrapu

2010

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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digital cities" online. This section also looks at the dramatic growth in the use of ICT for interaction with government entities and politicians. The next section is a wideranging treatment of "e-participation," covering digital citizenship, political campaigning online, electronic voting, e-rulemaking, political information seeking, blogging, social networking, and the possibility of virtual public spheres inhabited by non-co-located "netizens." After briefly examining the digital government-related technologies of geographic information systems and urban simulation, we conclude by looking at challenges such as access inequities, trust, power, and civic identity. Information and GovernmentBimber (2003) describes the central role of "information" in Alexander Hamilton's The Federalist, a pre-constitution treatise meant to convince the public about the merits of a federal republic for the emerging United States. He points out that the word "information" appears "about three dozen times in The Federalist" (p. 35) and that the importance of information is emphasized in a wide variety of areas including manufacturing, commerce, taxation, the distribution of citizens across large distances, the power of factions, and politics. The concept of a single democratic polity distributed over such a vast geographical expanse as was envisioned by the Founding Fathers (more vast than they imagined, as it turned out) was novel and problematic. The structure of the federal government, particularly the Electoral College, can be seen in part as an information and knowledge management solution of the time, in addition to its role as a process for implementing representative democracy in a geographically sprawling country.In the next century, the United States introduced systems of relatively inexpensive daily newspapers and universal, flat-rate mail service that greatly expanded the information environment (Fang, 1997;Schudson, 1998). Some scholars argue that these early information technologies deeply influenced citizens' feeling of common identity and sense of democratic purpose (Bimber, 2003;Schudson, 1998). In modern times, of course, radio and then television have been the dominant communication technologies. Their influence on government and politics has been widely Putnam, 1995) and will not be discussed further here except to note that these technologies are non-collaborative, one-way, broadcast technologies. The information and communication technology that concerns us in this chapter is digital technology: the Internet and all of its manifestations (email, the World Wide Web, instant messaging, social networking, and virtual worlds) and mobile information and communication technologies such as cell phones and global positioning systems. There is no question that these technologies are becoming more central to the way governments work now and will work in the future (Agre

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“…Knowledge about the use, users, and effects of these new systems is needed to create better designs and implementations. The results of a survey completed by the inhabitants of the Amsterdam Digital City, a large 'virtual community' can be seen in [1]. Related activities include EdNA (Education Network Australia) which is described in [17], and the Mirror, an experiment in virtual reality technology over the Internet, which provides a vehicle for exploring how to support evolving communities and enhance communication [29].…”

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Towards Computation over Communities

Ishida

1998

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. With the advance of global computer networks, a dramatic shift in computing metaphors has begun: from team to community. Understanding that the team metaphor has created various research fields including groupware and distributed artificial intelligence, it seems that the community metaphor has the potential to generate new directions in research and practice. Based on this motivation, we organized the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware in June 1998. This article reports the background and results of the meeting.

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Demographics and Sociographics of the Digital City

Cited by 38 publications

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Opportunities and Challenges for the Construction of a Smart City Geo-Spatial Framework in a Small Urban Area in Central China

Opportunities and Challenges for the Construction of a Smart City Geo-Spatial Framework in a Small Urban Area in Central China

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