Do Smart Cities Really Provide Opportunities for Citizen Participation? A Case Study of the RECI Cities in Spain (2017)

Varela-Álvares, Enrique José; Lago, Xosé María Mahou; Viso, Mónica López

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“…This seems to be more crucial in small cities, because these cities have attracted less attention from the research community. They often have fewer resources compared to larger cities and thus, need to optimize the use of these resources (Manda & Backhouse, 2019;Varela-Álvares, Mahou-Lago, & López Viso, 2019). Additionally, (Dezuanni, et al 2017) argued that small cities need different policies, instead of just blindly copying "smart city" and "growth" strategies and policies from their metropolitan counterparts (and by doing so, introducing the same problems large cities face).…”

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“…This will inevitably foster smoother introduction and integration of DPP. Smaller cities with a population between 50,000 to 100,000 that represent more than 50% of the total number of cities in Europe (Dijkstra & Poelman, 2012) should be given more attention (Hughes et al, 2018;Varela-Álvares, Mahou-Lago, & López Viso, 2019). This leads us to our study question: What factors affect a city's DPP maturity?…”

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Examining digital participatory planning: Maturity assessment in a Small Dutch city

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Alalouch

Fava

2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Examining digital participatory planning: Maturity assessment in a Small Dutch city

Bouzguenda

Alalouch

Fava

2020

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Only when citizens are given opportunities by the government with genuine integrity (World Bank, 2018a, p. 23) to participate in the design of policies and services will citizens be able to contribute in response by co-producing and co-creating with the public sector. Moreover, Mahou-Lago and Varela-Álvarez (2016), Varela-Álvarez et al (2019) and United Nations (2020, p. 195)’s characteristics of a strong single government website were also considered to form a more effective assessment tool.…”

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Violated factors in building citizen-centric e-government websites: insights from the performance of the federal, state and local governments websites in Malaysia

Lim

Kamaruddin

2023

JSIT

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Purpose Common evaluation tools on e-government websites are available globally and locally to standardise and improve the quality of information and services. However, a commonly ignored aspect is the way to obtain detailed measurements of factors influencing citizen centricity; in other words, how official websites cater to the needs and contributions of citizens at different levels of government. Thus, this paper aims to apply a citizen-centric framework in evaluating the e-government websites of three different levels of authority in Malaysia: federal, state and local. Design/methodology/approach The adapted citizen-centric checklist for e-government websites (aCCEW) with 40 characteristics across four components – openness (21), transparency (5), participation (10) and responsiveness (4) – was adopted to evaluate case studies of 36 government agency websites in Malaysia. Any conformity between the characteristics was marked using a binary measure, and the citizen-centric value was calculated for each component/characteristic. Findings Through website observations, ratings and descriptive comparisons, this study found that the aCCEW is a useful tool, especially for identifying certain critically violated factors. These were deficiencies in e-decision-making, revealing successful initiatives created through open data, revealing fund transfers and expenditure records and the level of social media responsiveness. Research limitations/implications The research contributes theoretically by improvising characteristics in the CCEW to become aCCEW and testing it in multiple levels of government in Malaysia to see its applicability to be adopted in other similar research of e-governments. This could become a new benchmark through the additional research insights it offers into similar perspectives of public values realisation in e-government website design that focuses on more than merely functionality. Attempt to relate the violated factors and strengths of aCCEW website design components to the level of centralisation (power) of federal, state and local governments was also genuine in the e-government research. Practical implications Regardless of the many different government systems, federal, state and local governments can benchmark the examples assessed in this study, rethink their power relationships, and further improve their e-platforms to suit the contexts of their users/residents’ needs and contributions. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study contributed to the first Malaysia-based research that identifies and compares factors that contribute to citizen-centric e-government website building at the federal, state and local government levels. The discussion adds value by comparing different systems and levels of e-government websites to their power possession.

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Do Smart Cities Really Provide Opportunities for Citizen Participation? A Case Study of the RECI Cities in Spain (2017)

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Examining digital participatory planning: Maturity assessment in a Small Dutch city

Examining digital participatory planning: Maturity assessment in a Small Dutch city

Violated factors in building citizen-centric e-government websites: insights from the performance of the federal, state and local governments websites in Malaysia

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