The paper unpacks the notion of “replication” within European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities from two perspectives: first focuses rationale replication as laid out in mission statement integral to its vision a smart city market interrogates term borrowed laboratory science. second turns practice explores how work, rather than providing standardized technological solution...

This paper studies participation divides on civic crowdsourcing platforms in a smart city context, hybrid applications of distributed urban innovation management, and new modes digital citizenship, often applied to co-shape future environments. However, the emergence participatory instruments also brings inequalities, as their adoption is not equally. Hence, from an explicitly interdisciplinary...

The population in many cities all over the world is continuously growing and with this growing number of people infrastructural, health and location-related problems increase. It is assumed that these problems could be addressed by means of open government data which many governments publish on their web portals so that it can be further processed and transformed. Since the citizens themselves ...

Internet of Things (IoT) has become a promising technology for addressing societal challenges by connecting smart devices and enabling big data analytics creating smart cities worldwide. As the IoT scales up, it is important to provide interoperability of different devices. We highlight that simply standard protocols are not sufficient for openness and interoperability. IoT for smart cities nee...

Cities stand at the confluence of two global grand challenges—urbanization and climate change. Smart city initiatives around the global seek to leverage information technology to preserve and improve quality of urban life in face of these challenges. Given its vast experience with socio-technical systems, the IS discipline can assume a leading role on this path towards a more sustainable way of...

The term Smart City is tipically applied to urban and metropolitan areas where Information and Communication Technologies provide ways to enable social, cultural and urban development, improving social and political capacities and/or efficiency. In this paper we will show the potential of Artificial Intelligence techniques for augmenting ICT solutions to both increase the cities competiveness b...

In a moment of high expectations and accolades about " smart cities " initiatives around the world, the collection of definitions, concepts, studies and methodologies provided by the book entitled " Smart City. How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space " is a welcomed effort to clarify a structure of a complex ideal of a mega project like smart city. This edite...