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Digital Cities 2003: Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives pp 1–16Cite as

Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction

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The ICT revolution has had a considerable impact on the city: It has affected the urban economy, the global urban networks, various dimensions of urban life, and social divides within cities. In this introduction we discuss some of the effects of ICTs on the city, to put Digital Cities experiments into social context. Next, we describe the diversity of existing local ICT infrastructures, followed by a summary of this volume. The 26 chapters give a broad overview of some ten years of experimenting with and research on digital cities. We conclude with a few observations about the research field.

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  1. Social Sciences Department, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, P.O. Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  2. Amsterdam School of Communication Research, ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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    Peter van den Besselaar

  2. Digital City Research Center, JST CREST, Kawaramachi, Nijo bldg. 2F, 366 Ichino Funairi-cho, Nakagyo-ku, 604-0924, Kyoto, Japan

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van den Besselaar, P. (2005). Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction. In: van den Besselaar, P., Koizumi, S. (eds) Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Digital Cities 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3081. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11407546_1

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