Integrating educational institutions to produce intellectual capital for sustainability in Caguas, Puerto Rico

Ortiz-Fournier, Lillian V; Marquez, Eulalia; Flores, Félix Rogelio; Rivera-Vázquez, Juan C; Colon, Pablo A

doi:10.1057/kmrp.2010.11

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“…Technical solutions and infrastructure should serve the interests of the people who live and work there. A modern city is based on the citizen and his or her specific characteristics and abilities [35,36]. The success of a smart city is largely based on the adoption and use of smart solutions by citizens, supporting decision-making and encouraging behavioural change [37].…”

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Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Szpilko

2020

Energies

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Global change, including population growth, economic development and climate change constitute urgent challenges for the smart cities of the 21st century. Cities need to effectively manage their development and meet challenges that have a significant impact on their economic activity, as well as health and quality of life for their citizens. In the context of continuous change, city decision-makers are constantly looking for new smart tools to tackle it. This article addresses this gap, indicating foresight as an effective tool that anticipates the future of a smart city. Its aim is to develop a methodology for planning and implementing a vision of smart city development based on foresight research. The proposed methodology consists of five stages and was developed with the use of methodology for designing hybrid systems. It is an organised, transparent and flexible process which can facilitate the development of sustainable and smart future visions of smart city development by virtue of the involvement, knowledge and experience of a large number of urban stakeholders at all stages of its creation. The article discusses in detail the operationalisation of each stage of the methodology in which the following main methods were used: megatrend analysis, factors analysis: social (S), technological (T), economic (E), ecological (E), political (P), relating to values (V) and legal (L) (STEEPVL), structural analysis, Delphi, creative visioning, scenarios and identifying actions related to the development of a smart city, divided into four categories: new, so far not undertaken (N); implemented so far, to be continued (C); redundant, to be discontinued (R); actions that have been implemented in the past and to be restored (R) (NCRR). The summary enumerates the benefits that foresight implementation can bring to the smart city.

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Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Szpilko

2020

Energies

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“…Of the 49 articles, only five make explicit the importance of worker knowledge in the operational area. Three of these see these workers as captors of useful information [16,21,27] and one sees them as users of a system introduced by a city administration as intellectual capital to reach objectives of sustainability [26]. The last of these articles, one of the two that discuss sustainability with an almost exclusively social focus, shows the relationships between human behavior, the perfecting of knowledge, and the success of sustainability policies [12].…”

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The workers role in knowledge management and sustainability policies

Bolis

Brunoro

Sznelwar

2012

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Based on the concepts of sustainability and knowledge management, this article seeks to identify points of contact between the two themes through an exploratory study of existing literature. The first objective is to find, in international literature, the largest number of papers jointly related to the theme of knowledge management and sustainability. In these documents, the authors looked at the kind of relationship existing between the two themes and what the benefits introduced in organizations are. Based on an ergonomic point of view, the second objective of this article is to analyze the role of the worker (whether at the strategic or operational level) and his importance in this context. The results demonstrate that there is very little literature that addresses the two themes together. The few papers found, however, can be said to show the many advantages of introducing sustainability policies supported by adequate knowledge management. Very little has been studied with regards to the role of workers, which could be interpreted as meaning that little importance is given to the proactive role they may play. On the other hand, there is a high potential for future research in these areas, based on the high level of consideration of workers in knowledge management and sustainability literature, as well as in literature in the areas of ergonomics and sociology.

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“…The group of studies that discussed the themes of smart living: public safety, healthcare, education, smart tourism and smart buildings, highlighted the complexities of day to day aspects of living and working within smart cities. To date a number of studies have concentrated on specific geographical locations: Spain (Pena et al 2016), Canada (Boukhechba et al 2017), Puerto Rico (Ortiz-Fournier et al 2010) and South Africa (Cilliers & Flowerday, 2017). This somewhat limits the findings in terms of disseminating key aspects to other global regions.…”

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Smart cities: Advances in research—An information systems perspective

Ismagilova¹,

Hughes

Dwivedi

et al. 2019

International Journal of Information Management

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Smart cities employ information and communication technologies to improve: the quality of life for its citizens, the local economy, transport, traffic management, environment, and interaction with government. Due to the relevance of smart cities (also referred using other related terms such as Digital City, Information City, Intelligent City, Knowledge-based City, Ubiquitous City, Wired City) to various stakeholders and the benefits and challenges associated with its implementation, the concept of smart cities has attracted significant attention from researchers within multiple fields, including information systems. This study provides a valuable synthesis of the relevant literature by analysing and discussing the key findings from existing research on issues related to smart cities from an Information Systems perspective. The research analysed and discussed in this study focuses on number of aspects of smart cities: smart mobility, smart living, smart environment, smart citizens, smart government, and smart architecture as well as related technologies and concepts. The discussion also focusses on the alignment of smart cities with the UN sustainable development goals. This comprehensive review offers critical insight to the key underlying research themes within smart cities, highlighting the limitations of current developments and potential future directions.

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Integrating educational institutions to produce intellectual capital for sustainability in Caguas, Puerto Rico

Cited by 28 publications

References 19 publications

Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

Foresight as a Tool for the Planning and Implementation of Visions for Smart City Development

The workers role in knowledge management and sustainability policies

Smart cities: Advances in research—An information systems perspective

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