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This chapter explores awareness as a dimension of seeing through smart cities in relation to the vast and unprecedented nature of data being generated, analyzed, and processed that is associated with emerging, aware, and interactive technologies. A review of the research literature for components of awareness includes ICTs (information and communication technologies), access to public data, privacy, and trust. This review of the literature enables formulation and operationalization of a conceptual framework for awareness by people in smart cities for use in this chapter. The methodology for this chapter employs the hybrid research design described in Chap. 3, involving an exploratory case study approach combined with an explanatory correlational design. Focusing on people in smart cities, spaces for awareness in relation to data are explored, associated with information and communication technologies (ICTs). Awareness is also explored in relation to access to public data and other associated factors such as privacy and trust. Relationships emerging in this chapter contribute to evolving insights for success in smart cities associated with awareness and ICTs on the one hand and ICTs and trust on the other hand.
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McKenna, H.P. (2021). Awareness and Seeing. In: Seeing Smart Cities Through a Multi-Dimensional Lens. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70821-4_4
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