Smart Cities in India Can Only Succeed with Smart Governance

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Purushottam Kesar
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Smart Governance

Computer Forensic Investigation in Cloud of Things

2019 ◽  
pp. 256-270
Author(s):  
A. Surendar
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Smart Vehicles ◽  
Healthcare Data ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Computer Forensic ◽  
Individual Healthcare

Digital data transformation is most challenging in developing countries. In recent days, all the applications are functioning with the support of internet of things (IoT). Wearable devices involve the most insightful information, which includes individual healthcare data. Health records of patients must be protected. IoT devices could be hacked, and criminals use this information. Smart cities with IoT use information technology to collect, analyze, and integrate information. Smart reduces the network traffic using the ground sensors, micro-radars, and drones monitor traffic to the traffic controller based on that signals are designed. The data collected includes the images and convey information to smart vehicles, which in turn, if data are hacked, may affect many people. Smart city includes important features such as smart buildings, smart technology, smart governance, smart citizen, and smart security. Cyber threat is a challenging problem, and usage of apps may increase malware that affects various customers.

Smart Cities and Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 464-483
Author(s):  
Özcan Sezer ◽  
Mehmet Avcı
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Smart Governance

Cities are futures' crucial elements, playing an important role in economics, social and environmental. As closer to individuals, cities face some challenges in terms of problems caused through the rapid urbanization process. Hence, governments and public agencies at all levels should use smart techniques including technology for sustainable development, better quality of life for citizens, and finally, an efficient use of scarce public resources. In this sense, Turkey plans to apply a smart city concept in Turkish cities as worldwide and published 2020-2023 National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan document with four strategic goals, nine targets, and 40 actions. This chapter aims to reveal the institutional, fiscal, and social challenges on smart governance, which is the most important dimension of smart city, for Turkey. In this respect, there are some challenges on smart governance in Turkey in terms of legislation, institutional, transparency and accountability, participation, e-democracy, and citizens.

Redefining Smart Cities, Urban Energy, and Green Technologies for Sustainable Development

2022 ◽  
pp. 216-232
Author(s):  
Ayfer Gedikli ◽  
Cihan Yavuz Taş ◽  
Nur Billur Taş
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Smart Lighting ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Greenhouse Effects ◽  
Smart Governance

Increasing greenhouse effects and global warming have been threatening the environment. Cities have directed their development strategies towards smart policies aiming to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants through sustainable environment and energy resources. Therefore, it became a very critical strategy to redefine urban energy sources and apply green technologies in all means of city lives for sustainable cities and reaching Sustainable Development Goals. In this chapter, background information for the role of cities in climate change and environmental pollution globally will be explained. Then a theoretical framework for smart cities and their important features focusing on technology innovation, smart governance, energy efficiency, waste management, as well as green buildings, smart grid-smart lighting, and smart mobility will be analyzed. Finally, sustainable development policy suggestions for sustainable plans and programs at the urban level within the current legislative framework will be put forth.

Sustainability of Smart Cities

2022 ◽  
pp. 180-193
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Short Review ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Success Criteria ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Different Levels

The issue of sustainability of smart cities is approached in this chapter from two different angles: dimensions sector-specific and city governance. Following a short review of smart city sectors, emphasis is placed on the concept of smart governance of cities. The concept of smart governance is reviewed especially regarding cooperation with city governments of other cities within the region or country and empowering citizens. Different levels are presented with focus on four main conditions for smart governance, namely participation in decision-making, public and social services, transparent governance, and political strategies and perspectives. The chapter presents sustainability of smart governance through a paradigm of sustainability as an effectual model based on sustainability, wellbeing, productivity, and resilience. Finally, the chapter addresses the success criteria of sustainable smart cities regarding different aspects, such open data, agility to new technologies, cross-sectoral harmonization, and careful policy, strategy, and program alignment.

scholarly journals Citizen Participation and the Rise of Digital Media Platforms in Smart Governance and Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Gil ◽  
María E. Cortés-Cediel ◽  
Iván Cantador
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Human Responsibility ◽  
New Research

Many governments and firms do believe that technology can supplant governance and human responsibility. This belief poses the question of who will really benefit from smart cities. This article explores this fundamental question through the study of digital media platforms. The ultimate goal is to understand the link between e-governance and smart city initiatives in our cases of study by testing whether these projects are explicitly for citizens. This article shows how e-platforms represent the use of information and communication technologies with the aim of encouraging citizen participation in decision-making processes, improving information and service delivery, reinforcing transparency, accountability, as well as credibility. Thirteen digital media platforms are surveyed, mostly in cities across countries. These e-platforms raise implementation challenges for both firms and policy makers, and new research opportunities for scientist to build up new research and to experiment with the aim to make the benefits for citizens wider and the participatory dimension stronger.

scholarly journals The Governance Approach of Smart City Initiatives. Evidence from Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savis Gohari ◽  
Dirk Ahlers ◽  
Brita F. Nielsen ◽  
Eivind Junker
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Urban Utopia ◽  
Original Concept ◽  
Different Levels

A pragmatic and polity-focused solution for governing a smart city in the direction of sustainability is still missing in theory and practice. A debate about whether a smart city is a pragmatic solution for modern challenges or just a technology-led urban utopia is entangled with the vexed issue of governance. While ‘smart governance’ has drawn unprecedented interest, the combination of its conceptual vagueness and broad applications couple with a lack of focus on its underlying international and local political paradigms have raised concerns about its utility. This study contributes to restoring attention to the original concept of governance, its differences with governing and government, and the potential challenges resulting from its functionality in its real, multi-layered, and complex contexts. This paper explores the intellectual connection between governance and smart cities, from both an empirical and a conceptual/analytical perspective. From the empirical side, we examine which actors, processes, and relational mechanisms at different levels that have had an impact on the initiation of smart cities in three Norwegian cities: Trondheim, Bergen, and Bodø. We illustrate how the structural sources of the interests, roles, and power in smart city initiatives have caused governance to emerge and change, but have also affected the goals designed by specific actors.

Multi-criteria analysis of smart cities in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Karolina Ogrodnik
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Promethee Method ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

The primary objective of the work is to analyze the largest Polish cities in terms of the smart city indicators, which currently form one of the most important models of development. Special attention was paid to smart and sustainable solutions for public transport and infrastructure. An MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)/MCDA (Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) method was used. First, the selected method (PROMETHEE) allowed to indicate the smartest and least smart cities with respect to six main dimensions: smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment, and smart living. Secondly, the PROMETHEE method allowed compilation of a final ranking, taking into account publicly available indicators of the smart city concept. Finally, 43 smart city indicators that are available in public statistics were proposed. In addition to the primary goal of the study, i.e., diagnosis of Polish cities in terms of the global concept of smart city, a critical analysis of the availability of necessary statistical indicators was also carried out, indicating potential directions for database development.

scholarly journals Smart Universities Walk the Talk of Commitment

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
EVERARD VAN KEMENADE
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
First Century ◽  
Smart Environment ◽  
City Model ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
The University ◽  
Model C

Twenty first century cities encounter many problems regarding transportation, governance, information technology, environment, resources. Smart cities are needed and already booming all over the world. The concept of Smart Cities needs to be defined. The Smart City model by Giffinger et al (2007) is useful in this respect. It discerns six topics: smart living, smart governance, smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment and smart people. This article focuses on the consequences of smart cities for universities. They can teach their students specific competences in e.g. Information Technology, Urbanisation, Smart Cities and Sustainability. They can do research in such areas. But: "The centrality of "žsmart citizens"Ÿ, rather than "žsmart cities"Ÿ, can be easily overlooked." (Slovava and Okwechime, 2016). Smart Cities can only function, if their citizen become smart. For universities that means teaching general competences to all students like problem solving, creativity, flexibility and critical thinking. Crucial is knowledge and skills regarding sustainability. For that matter, the university will need to be an example to be credible. Actually, universities need a paradigm shift: from control and continuous improvement to commitment, a preliminary stage to real breakthrough. The stage the university is in can be measured with the Emergency Model (c) (Van Kemenade, 2017). The instrument can also point out what still needs to be done to achieve the breakthrough that is needed for universities in times of Smart Cities.

scholarly journals Smart cities: Understanding policies, standards, applications and case studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 3137
Author(s):  
Surender Reddy Salkuti
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Healthcare Education ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Spatial Reference ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Smart Governance

<span>This paper presents the integration of required basic facilities of living such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure for building the smart cities. The administrations of smart cities should have the smart governance, safety measures with cultural and social stimulus. Four building blocks of smart cities, i.e., people and environment, smart utilities, smart technology and smart administration are described in the present paper. The aim of this paper is to give a clearer perspective of the key decisions with spatial reference that may assume a key part in the plan of a smart city technique. Application of various technologies, for examples big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, block chain technology to the smart cities are discussed in this paper. Various challenges of smart cities such as information technology (IT) infrastructure, cost, privacy, security, efficiency, fossil fuel dependency and congested commutes with proposed solutions are also presented in this paper.</span>

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