Urban service co-production and technology: nine key issues

Making waves: Urban technology and the co-production of place

Over the past several years, as cities in the United States have faced increasing fiscal pressures, there has been a reinvigorated interest in the promise of smart cities, intelligent cities, digital cities, open source cities and media cities, which advocate the use of digital technologies to make cities more efficient, productive, innovative and attractive. However, the appropriation and use ...

Key Issues of Female Migration, Urban Relocation and Remaking Home

Information Technology and Development: Foundation and Key Issues

This volume is an attempt to document successful use of information and communication technology (ICT) for rural development in India so that lessons can be drawn on the type of applications that are likely to create a developmental impact and the efforts that will be necessary to implement such applications. To put the case studies and the lessons that have been drawn in a perspective, this ch...

Assistive Technology: Use and Service Delivery

As individuals with long-term disabilities and other older adults face declines in health and function, there is a greater need for assistive technology (AT) or assistive devices and environmental interventions (EI) to help them maintain their independence and community participation. These aids can help older adults and individuals with disabilities function in work, home, recreational, and ot...

Cloud Logistics Service Mode and its Several Key Issues

A survey on cloud logistics service mode is proposed according to the new characteristics and new connotation of logistics services based on cloud computing from the view-point of management. In the logistics service under cloud computing environment, the logistics service mode is described from the different periods, different functions and different objects. Firstly, this paper analyzes the r...