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A Walk for e-Participation in the Smart City’s Era. New Organizational Challenges and New Models of Governance

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E-Participation in Smart Cities: Technologies and Models of Governance for Citizen Engagement

Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology ((PAIT,volume 34))

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The context of SCs favors the technological and innovative spaces to increase the citizen participation. In this book, we have tried to analyze what are the models and the circumstances under which public managers and politicians work to implement SCs. The contributions in this book have highlighted that governments have tried to offer different tools to improve citizen participation in the process of taking public decisions. However, their attitude is no active and is not in favor of citizen participation with the aim at sharing their ideas, comments, suggestions, compliances and experiences. Maybe, it will be necessary to implement systems, projects and initiatives that try to involve the citizenry in the design of public services. Also, it may be necessary cooperation initiatives such as crowdsourcing and Living Labs that contribute to the creation of innovative ideas and solutions, tending towards the common good.

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  1. Faculty of Business Studies, Department of Accounting and Finance, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Laura Alcaide Muñoz & Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar

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Alcaide Muñoz, L., Rodríguez Bolívar, M.P. (2019). A Walk for e-Participation in the Smart City’s Era. New Organizational Challenges and New Models of Governance. In: E-Participation in Smart Cities: Technologies and Models of Governance for Citizen Engagement. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89474-4_10

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