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Building Understanding of Smart City Initiatives

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Abstract

This study presents the first results of an analysis primarily based on semi-structured interviews with government officials and managers who are responsible for smart city initiatives in four North American cities—Philadelphia and Seattle in the United States, Quebec City in Canada, and Mexico City in Mexico. With the reference to the Smart City Initiatives Framework that we suggested in our previous research, this study aims to build a new understanding of smart city initiatives. Main findings are categorized into eight aspects including technology, management and organization, policy context, governance, people and communities, economy, built infrastructure, and natural environment.

Keywords

  • Smart city
  • City management
  • City government
  • Smart Government
  • Technology
  • E-government
  • Governance
  • Citizen engagement
  • Policy

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  1. University of Washington, Seattle, United States

    Suha Alawadhi, Sofia Leung, Hans J. Scholl & Shawn Walker

  2. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico, Mexico

    Armando Aldama-Nalda & J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

  3. Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    Hafedh Chourabi & Sehl Mellouli

  4. Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany – SUNY, Albany, United States

    Taewoo Nam & Theresa A. Pardo

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  1. University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, Suite 370, 98195-2840, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hans J. Scholl

  2. Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands

    Marijn Janssen

  3. Institute for IS Research, University of Koblenz-Landau, Universitätsstraße 1, 56070, Koblenz, Germany

    Maria A. Wimmer

  4. Department of Information Systems, University of Agder, Gimlemoen 25, 4605, Kristiansand, Norway

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Alawadhi, S. et al. (2012). Building Understanding of Smart City Initiatives. In: Scholl, H.J., Janssen, M., Wimmer, M.A., Moe, C.E., Flak, L.S. (eds) Electronic Government. EGOV 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7443. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33489-4_4

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