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Towards Cities as Communities

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Cities should be communities that ensure high quality of life promoting effective services, sustaining knowledge acquisition and developing innovation, using technology to sustain urban growth and promote value creation. Cities becoming smart communities should adopt a smart approach to driving social and economic urban development employing information technology to promote innovation. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) help cities to achieve successful issues as smart communities within knowledge-based global and local economies and open societies. Sustaining smart growth relies on rethinking the city as a smart and sustainable community using technology to support collaboration between local government, businesses, education and research centres and people to change the city in a significant and positive way. Sustainable, inclusive and open cities should evolve as communities that use technology to support human capital value, to use knowledge sources encouraging public and private organizations to believe in cooperation for sustaining change through innovation.

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  1. University of Naples Parthenope, Via G. Parisi 13, 80132, Naples, Italy

    Mauro Romanelli

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Youcef Baghdadi

  2. Business Department, University Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France

    Antoine Harfouche

  3. Department of Economics and Business Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

    Marta Musso

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Romanelli, M. (2020). Towards Cities as Communities. In: Baghdadi, Y., Harfouche, A., Musso, M. (eds) ICT for an Inclusive World. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34269-2_10

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