* Graduate School of Creative Cities, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan, email [email protected] ** Faculty of Engineering. Department of Survey Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Patumwan, Bangkok, Thailand 10330, email [email protected] *** Department for Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 S...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The examination of the municipal broadband and building a " digital city " for a southwestern Greek city is the heart of this case study in terms of city's repositioning through open innovation and creativity. The paradigm of the first successful Greek digital city (" e-Trikala ") shows to every Greek that the Digital City ICT applications can improve everyday life by simplify...

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. © 2017 The Authors. Journal of General and Family Medicine published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japan Primary Care Asso...

Can cities be smart? In this article we define what a smart city is and formulate categories and indicators of smart and/or informational cities. Based on these measures, we investigate four Japanese cities as case studies that appear to be highly developed modern metropolises. We focus on infrastructures essential for an informational city as base for a ubiquitous, smart (in a narrow sense), c...

Over the last two decades, creative cities have become an issue of interest as governments in several countries worked to develop ecosystems where class can innovate and share ideas. Many city focus more on developing pay less attention their city's branding. This study aims see Singapore a newly appointed UNESCO brand, even though it already has destination brand. There are challenges about wh...