Smart cities and the citizen-driven internet of things: A qualitative inquiry into an emerging smart city

Kummitha, Rama Krishna Reddy; Crutzen, Nathalie

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2018.12.001

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“…The overall intention is to empower communities as smart communities which are able to develop their own smart technologies and use them for solving urban problems. In order to enhance creativity among citizens, these smart cities have invested in building city-level ecosystems that can bring government, communities, private firms and universities together, so that cities act as clusters of innovation to enable and facilitate the invention of technologies that look after their needs and bring competitive advantages to the cities (Kummitha & Crutzen, 2019).…”

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Smart technologies for fighting pandemics: The techno- and human- driven approaches in controlling the virus transmission

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How do governments in China and Western democracies differ in their technological response to control the transmission of the pandemic? Based on an analysis of academic papers, World Health Organization reports and newspapers, this research compares two opposing approaches, whereas the Chinese cities and government have adopted a techno-driven approach, Western governments have adopted a human-driven approach to control the transmission of Covid-19. The findings highlight that although the techno driven approach may be more productive to identify, isolate and quarantine infected individuals, it also results in the suppression and censoring the citizen views. It is further emphasized that human interaction with the technology is mediated by the political and institutional context in which the technologies are implemented. This paper contributes to literature by understanding the humantechnology relationship, and offers five practical observations for controlling virus transmissions during pandemics.

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Smart technologies for fighting pandemics: The techno- and human- driven approaches in controlling the virus transmission

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2020

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“…Appendix A provides more detailed information about the 56 studies including country/initiative studied, method of the study and the aims/objectives of the study. Geographical locations (country/continent) of the included studies by descending order (based on the number of studies identified) India [28,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][67][68][69][70]79] China [45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]71,76,80] Indonesia [54][55][56][57] Brazil [3,58,72] Malaysia [59][60][61] Vietnam [62,73] Mexico [63] Turkey [78] Egypt [81] Romania [64] Nepal [65] ...…”

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“…Qualitative city-level case studies [32][33][34]37,38,42,44,45,[47][48][49]50,52,53,[56][57][58]60,62,65,76,80] Qualitative country-level case studies [28,33,35,38,43,44,47,48,52,55,57,58,60-62,65,66,[78]] Qualitative continent-level case studies [74,75] Quantitative surveys [3,[67][68][69][70][71][72][73] 1 Contexts and characteristics of the 56 studies included in the review; please see Appendix A for more details.…”

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“…Human capital is an indispensable driver in smart city implementation in developing countries [44,70,77,82]. Having citizens that are sufficiently educated and technically competent in navigating the smart city environment, including knowing the opportunities that different smart city initiatives are accruing, is highly important for the development of smart cities [82].…”

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“…While the government's steering capability is crucial in smart city development, knowledge transfer and participation from the private sector would help to boost the probability of success [44,49,71,77]. Private sector participation is important as it is seen as complementing three areas of the government's roles in smart city projects: financing, mentoring, and acting as incubators for testing new ideas [44]. Besides supporting the government's role as a standalone entity, private sector participation can occur in the form of effective public-private partnerships when implementing smart city projects [77].…”

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Smart cities and the citizen-driven internet of things: A qualitative inquiry into an emerging smart city

Cited by 104 publications

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