Towards a Holistic Evaluation of Citizen Participation in Smart Cities

Simonofski, Anthony; Storme, Stefanie Van Den; Meers, Hanne

doi:10.1145/3396956.3396985

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“…This is in line with scholars who differentiate between different narratives of smart cities that open up varying opportunities for public participation [39]. De Waal and Dignum [40], for instance, describe smart cities in three different ways: To them, smart cities are firstly a space of digital infrastructures and services ("control room"), a space for developing regional and local innovation systems ("creative city"), or a space of political and civic community ("smart citizens discourse") (see also [41,39,[42][43][44][45]. In a Canadian case study, [29] point out that these roles should at least be supplemented by the roles of "consumerism" and "protest".…”

Section: Participation In Smart City Strategy Development and Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In individual cases, evaluation approaches of smart cities also consider questions of governance, but these are "often normative or limited to certain aspects of cities' smartness" [35]. It has been recognised that there is a need for a "holistic approach to assessing urban participatory policy making" [35], which would address the key challenge for evaluation design: The development of standardised smart city development and performance indicators that provide meaningful, citizen-centred evaluation [31,60,41,35].…”

Section: Towards Urban and Citizen-centred Approaches To Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital Justice in the Smart City Developing a Framework for Participatory Digitalisation Strategies at the Local Level

Schüle,

Pollok,

Güleş

2023

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An integrated consideration of digital inequalities in smart cities is relatively new to most discussions of the subject, and an applicable research framework for the assessment and management of digital inequalities in the smart city is still lacking. This paper proposes a framework for an action-oriented approach to analyse and strategically reduce digital injustices in smart cities. There are five requirements for creating digital justice: the availability of a concept with sufficiently allocated resources, the availability of digital infrastructures and technologies, programmes for learning digital competencies, offerings for citizen participation and a holistic perspective on the global dimensions of digital justice. For different case studies, we assess the coverage, integration and impact of these features. The analysis confirms that the proposed methodological approach can record and evaluate strategies for digital participation in smart cities.

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Section: Participation In Smart City Strategy Development and Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Towards Urban and Citizen-centred Approaches To Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Justice in the Smart City Developing a Framework for Participatory Digitalisation Strategies at the Local Level

Schüle,

Pollok,

Güleş

2023

Preprint

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“…Another very important aspect that is taken up in the definitions of a smart city is the role and participation of citizens in the smart city. According to Simonofski, Van Den Storme, and Meers, the participation of the citizen in the context of smart cities has gained considerable attention from researchers and practitioners [64]. The authors presented the categorization of roles that citizens can play in the smart city as well as a detailed evaluation tool.…”

Section: Literature Review 21 Smart City Definitionsmentioning

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Implementation of “Smart” Solutions and An Attempt to Measure Them: A Case Study of Czestochowa, Poland

Biadacz

2021

Energies

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The aim of the study is to present the implemented “smart” solutions and the developed indicators of their measurement in the context of the city of Częstochowa (Poland), as well as a participant in the “Benchmarking—we are looking for the best smart city solutions”. In order to achieve the assumed goal, a traditional review of the literature on the subject in the field of “smart city” was carried out. Then, the methodological assumptions related to developing a model set of indicators for cities participating in the program have been presented. In addition, a comparative analysis of the obtained indicators values for cities, Częstochowa and Bydgoszcz, has been carried out in the scope of one exemplary measure. The proposed research procedure can be used to analyze and evaluate cities in the country, as well as to select alternative solutions in the context of other urban features. Due to the fact that other cities in Poland will also participate in the study, the significance of this work will have a wide impact. The research presented in the article is only a part of an intended larger initiative in which several dozen Polish cities will take part.

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“…Being a smart citizen also means interacting and engaging with other stakeholders to ideate and co-create innovative solutions that improve individual and collective outcomes, which can contribute to collaborative forms of smart city development [17,20,57,62,[67][68][69][70][71]. In this regard, empirical studies in cities around the world show that smart citizens' active participation varies and can range from contributing ideas and opinions on smart city initiatives to co-creating those initiatives on par with other stakeholders [25,51,64,72,73].…”

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confidence: 99%

Fostering Smart Citizens: The Role of Public Libraries in Smart City Development

Buyannemekh,

Gasco-Hernandez,

Gil-Garcia

2024

Sustainability

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With rapid urbanization, cities worldwide have sought innovative, sustainable solutions such as smart city initiatives to leverage technology and data to better manage this growth and the challenges it brings. Developing smart cities requires multi-stakeholder collaboration, including citizens who, as smart citizens, are aware and capable of using technologies to improve their quality of life and actively and equally contribute to making their cities smarter. This study examines how smart citizens are developed by focusing on the underexplored role of public libraries as community organizations in such efforts. To this end, we use comparative case studies of four U.S. public libraries informed by thirty-seven in-depth interviews with representatives from these libraries, local governments, and external partners. Our findings indicate that by providing inclusive access to advanced technology and training, facilitating civic engagement, and promoting innovation, public libraries can develop citizens who, as smart citizens, have the digital skills, agency, and creativity to actively contribute to smart city development. In doing so, public libraries can bridge digital and social divides and thereby develop smart citizens in a way that furthers inclusive and representative participation of their communities in smart city initiatives.

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Towards a Holistic Evaluation of Citizen Participation in Smart Cities

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Digital Justice in the Smart City Developing a Framework for Participatory Digitalisation Strategies at the Local Level

Digital Justice in the Smart City Developing a Framework for Participatory Digitalisation Strategies at the Local Level

Implementation of “Smart” Solutions and An Attempt to Measure Them: A Case Study of Czestochowa, Poland

Fostering Smart Citizens: The Role of Public Libraries in Smart City Development

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