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Crowdsourcing for Sustainable Smart Cities and Their ICT Practices

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Smart Cities for Sustainable Development

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The “smart city” idea firstly referred in accordance with initiatives to that amount use digital or ICT-based innovation in accordance with enhancing the efficiency of urban capabilities and grow instant economic opportunities between cities. With the increase of humans residing in cities, the challenges confronted through Government, “Smart cities” is a current or modern approach to that amount allows the city according to use present-day infrastructure or resources more efficiently. The concept concerning “smart cities” has pretty these days inspired an alternative path over drawing near urban sustainability thru the sizeable arrival concerning ICTs, harmoniously mixed along human metropolis then city’s potential between rule current patterns on town improvement to lie emerged. Crowdsourced smart cities are proposed as a choice according to allow commons assignation among smart city debates yet decision-making—in particular when act along global digital corporations. A systemic decrial on the existing writing over Crowdsourcing systems used to be carried out then essential findings hold been summarized adequately. Crowdsourcing is defined as Crowd + Outsourcing. This paper describes Crowdsourcing for sustaining Smart Cities & their ICT practices.

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  1. Institute of Public Enterprise, Survey No. 1266, Shamirpet (V&M), Medchal-Malkajgiri District, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    K. Bhavana Raj

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  1. Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Ram Kumar Mishra

  2. Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Ch Lakshmi Kumari

  3. ActionAid Association India, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Sandeep Chachra

  4. Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    P. S. Janaki Krishna

  5. Institute of Public Enterprise, Osmania University Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Anupama Dubey

  6. Department of Geography, University of Delhi, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    R. B. Singh

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Raj, K.B. (2022). Crowdsourcing for Sustainable Smart Cities and Their ICT Practices. In: Mishra, R.K., Kumari, C.L., Chachra, S., Krishna, P.S.J., Dubey, A., Singh, R.B. (eds) Smart Cities for Sustainable Development. Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7410-5_12

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