scholarly journals It’s Not a Fad: Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research in European and Global Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Visvizi ◽  
Miltiadis Lytras
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Policy Frameworks ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Village ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Academic Debate

Research on smart cities matures, and new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of smart cities, is increasing. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas are also addressed, as a part of discussions in neighboring fields of research, such as environmental studies, sociology, and agriculture. Arguably, the concept of ‘the village’ has been largely absent in the academic debate, even if rural areas and countryside communities have been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union’s Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village remained underdiscussed in the literature. Through this Special Issue, and the Editors’ earlier research on this topic, the Editors hope that the idea of the ‘smart village’ will be introduced into the debate. Against this backdrop, the objective of this opening review is three-fold: (i) to outline the conceptual boundaries of the term smart village, (ii) to highlight the thrust of the challenge inherent in smart villages research, and (iii) to shed light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds. The relevance and validity of these claims are supported by references to research submitted to the Special Issue titled “Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research”.

scholarly journals A Post-Corona Perspective for Smart Cities: ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Sassen ◽  
Karima Kourtit
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Healthy City ◽  
City Life ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
And Control

This exploratory essay aims to provide a reflection on the possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for urban development and to sketch a plausible picture of the urban future. It serves as an introductory contribution to the Special Issue of this journal on ‘happy and healthy cities’, with particular emphasis on the implications of COVID-19 in pluriform cities. There is no doubt that contemporary cities are growing, and have become more dynamic and crowded. The more people, the bigger the challenges are to manage urban growth and to cope with—and control—density frictions, such as pandemics (e.g., COVID-19). Cities have the task to satisfy the essential needs of many heterogeneous people and to develop appropriate people-based strategies in order to make or keep people happy and healthy. The current COVID-19 disaster is a real urban challenge. The deployment of smart cities’ strategies and the use of digital technology tools in order to capture and provide intelligent internal and external online information and communication opportunities may help cities—in active partnership with their residents (‘smart citizens’ voice’)—to manage shocks and disruptions in the urban system. Clearly, cities are dynamic and adaptive organisms with a high resilience capacity. A key question addressed in this paper is whether urban inhabitants may be inclined to move out of the city due to human health threats, or whether intelligent digital technology tools will be able to overcome the current challenges to the ‘urban way of life’. The paper argues that modern information and communication technology offers a range of opportunities for a healthy city life, so that the COVID-19 pandemic will most likely not lead to a massive demographic outflow from urban agglomerations to less densely populated areas in particular rural areas. Instead, what is called the ‘corona crisis’ may cause just a ripple in the permanent dynamic evolution of cities.

ICTs for Community Development: Bridging Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Boundaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (13) ◽  
pp. 1803-1817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Comunello ◽  
Simone Mulargia ◽  
Mauro Sarrica
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ict For Development ◽  
Shed Light

The aim of this special issue is to collect and put into dialogue theoretical, methodological, critical, and applied contributions dealing with the variety of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) uses in community development. In this introduction to the special issue, we first provide the readers with a quick overview of the field, conducted by analyzing the lexicon of titles and abstracts published in the past few years in information and communication technology for development journals. We will then briefly elaborate on the concept of “users” as a pivotal dimension that can shed light on the complex interlinkages between technological artifacts and sociocultural factors involved in ICT usage. The focus on user, in fact, highlights some relevant issues concerning the relation between ICT, people and communities. Drawing on these premises, the papers collected in the special issue will then be briefly described. These contributions come from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, include the uptake of innovative technologies as well as top-down interventions, and focus on different regions of the world. The cross-fertilization and the range of disciplines included in this special issue result in a kaleidoscope in which different facets can be mixed, showing the individual, community, and societal aspects of community use of ICT for development.

scholarly journals Call Your Leader: Does the Mobile Phone Affect Policymaking?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jahen Fachrul Rezki
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Signal Strength ◽  
Lightning Strike ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

This paper analyses the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on policymaking on an Indonesian Village level. In this study, I use data from different waves of the Indonesian Village Potential Statistics (Potensi Desa) to determine whether mobile phone signal strength affects village policies and civic engagement activities. The results indicate that villages with a strong signal are statistically more likely to possess the proper infrastructure and economic programs. Furthermore, mobile phones increase civic engagement, which is consistent with previous studies related to collective action or mass mobilisation. Using the plausibly exogenous variation of lightning strike intensity as the instrumental variable, this study suggests that higher mobile phone signal strength is positively associated with the policies implemented by the village head. This study also demonstrates that ICT has a stronger effect in rural areas. One possible explanation is that mobile phones improve the relative ability for rural people to interact with their leaders. Another potential answer is the fact that there are significant differences between rural village and urban village governments, which could also affect policymaking.

scholarly journals Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Visvizi ◽  
Miltiadis D. Lytras
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
And Migration

This Special Issue of Sustainability was devoted to the topic of “Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness”. It attracted significant attention of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from all over the world. Locating themselves at the expanding cross-section of the information systems and policy making research, all papers included in this Special Issue contribute to the debate on the exploitation of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) for smart applications and computing for smart cities and rural areas research. By promoting a thorough scientific debate on multi-faceted challenges that our villages, cities, urban and rural areas are exposed to today, this Special Issue offers a very useful overview of the most recent developments in the multifaceted and, frequently overlapping, fields of smart cities and smart villages research. A variety of topics including well-being, happiness, security, Open Democracy, Open Government, Smart Education, Smart Innovation, and Migration have been addressed in this Special Issue. In this way they define the direction for future research in both domains.

scholarly journals Special Issue “New Perspectives in Intelligent Transportation Systems and Mobile Communications towards a Smart Cities Context”

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Pau ◽  
Alessandro Severino ◽  
Antonino Canale
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Information And Communication

Intelligent transportation solutions and smart information and communication technologies will be the core of future smart cities. For this purpose, these topics have captivated noteworthy interest in the investigation and construction of cleverer communication protocols or the application of artificial intelligence in the connection of in-vehicle devices by wireless networks, and in in-vehicle services for autonomous driving using high-precision positioning and sensing systems. This special issue has focused on the collection of high-quality papers aimed at solving open technical problems and challenges typical of mobile communications for Intelligent Transportation Systems.

scholarly journals The Role of The Village Government in the Economic Development of Fisherman Communities in Pulau Harapan Village

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Hasdinawati Hasdinawati ◽  
Ernawati Ernawati ◽  
Abd. Wahid
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Data Grouping ◽  
Village Government ◽  
The Village

Pulau Harapan Village which is one of the villages in the Pulau Sembilan District area. most of the population work as fishermen. This study aims to determine the role of the village government in the economic development of fishermen communities in Pulau Harapan Village, Pulau Sembilan subdistrict. The research method used is descriptive qualitative research. Data collection is observation, interviews with resource persons, namely the Head of the Harapan Island Village, the Secretary of the Pulau Harapan Village, the Tohoh community and the Harapan Island Fisherman Community. Meanwhile, data analysis includes: collecting data, reducing data, assessing data (grouping primary and secondary data), and interpreting data, which is done by critically analyzing the collected data and finally arriving at a conclusion. The results of the study conclude that the Village Government in the Economic Development of the Fishermen Community in Pulau Harapan Village, Pulau Sembilan Subdistrict has not played a sufficient role, especially in realizing and developing production centers, processing industry centers, access to village transportation, building community agribusiness, building business facilities/business centers in rural areas as well as in developing the information and communication technology community 

The tracked society: Interdisciplinary approaches on online tracking

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1945-1956
Author(s):  
René König ◽  
Steffen Uphues ◽  
Verena Vogt ◽  
Barbara Kolany-Raiser
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
Shed Light

Online tracking in its various forms is a backbone of digitalization that has sparked hopes and fears alike: It opens up new opportunities for users and businesses as it enables individually targeted content. At the same time, the encompassing tracking of often unaware and ill-informed users and the opaque practices of data procession has alarmed critics from multiple sides. How can we better understand but also proactively and constructively shape the emerging Tracked Society? Our special issues seek to shed light on these questions from various perspectives and disciplines. In this introduction, we give a brief overview of the topic in general and our special issue in particular.

Technologies Disability and Inclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Brusell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Information And Communication

When modern technology permeates every corner of life, there are ignited more and more hopes among the disabled to be compensated for the loss of mobility and participation in normal life, and with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Exoskeleton Technologies and truly hands free technologies (HMI), it's possible for the disabled to be included in the social and pedagogic spheres, especially via computers and smartphones with social media apps and digital instruments for Augmented Reality (AR) .In this paper a nouvel HMI technology is presented with relevance for the inclusion of disabled in every day life with specific focus on the future development of "smart cities" and "smart homes".

KEBANGGAAN TERHADAP BATIK MADURA BAGI WARGA SUMENEP

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayyida Sayyida ◽  
Nurdody Zakki
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Community Group ◽  
Parametric Regression ◽  
Logit Function ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City ◽  
Level Of Risk ◽  
Non Parametric

Diversity of Indonesian Batik hanging area. One of the very well-known Indonesian batik is Batik Madura. Batik Madura has become a pride for Indonesia, especially for Madura. The purpose of the study is to model the Sumenep pride to Batik Madura and to see the level of risk or tendency of batik madura pride for the community group Sumenep. This research method uses a non parametric regression used a non-parametric regression because the dependent variable in this study is the variable Y are variables not normally distributed. The results of this study states that the level of risk of the village in Sumenep proud of batik is almost 5 times higher than the islands while people in this city who live in the district town at risk Sumenep proud of Batik Madura 8-fold compared to the archipelago. So it can be concluded that the city is much more proud of batik than those who reside in rural areas especially those who reside in the islands. This study uses data from 100 questionnaires were analyzed using logistic regression analysis. The conclusion of this study is the pride of the batik model as follows: Function logistic regression / logit function: g (x) = 0,074 + 1,568X4(1)+2,159X4(2 this is case the islands as a comparison, X4(1)  is the place to stay in the village and X4(2)  is the place to stay in town, so the Model Opportunities p(x) = EXP(g(x))/1+EXP(g(x)).  Hopes for further research is to conduct research on the development of batik in an integrated region, the need to be disseminated to potential areas of particular potential in Madura batik, especially for residents who reside in the Islands.Keywords: Pride, Batik, Sumenep.

RURAL MEDICINE. CONDITION AND ISSUES

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Yuliya M. Beglyakova ◽  
◽  
Aleksander S. Shchirskii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Rural Medicine ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
Number Of Treatment ◽  
The Village

The article analyses the accessibility of medical facilities in rural areas of modern Russia and the specifics of their organization and development. The authors reveal causes why rural residents have much less opportunities to seek quality medical care than urban ones, what leads to a disparity between the inhabitants of the city and the village. The thesis is substantiated that state programmes that should make health services accessible to the rural population to a greater extent do not cope with the task at hand. An attempt is made to highlight the public’s response to the existing disparity in the health services of the villagers compared to urban dwellers. Such a reaction can be considered an outflow of people from rural areas, and an increase in self-medication among rural people as a result of the difficulty in obtaining health services. The decrease in the number of treatment facilities in rural areas leads to a deterioration in the medicine situation in rural areas. That, according to the authors of the article, justifies the need to study the issues associated with the provision of medical care to the rural population.

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