The Smart Cities’ projects favor the improvement and efficiency in public services, as well as the dis-closure and access more information, offering extraordinary opportunities for cities to spark a new wave of wealth ...

Purpose – In recent years, the term “smart city” has attracted a lot of attention from policy makers, business leaders and citizenship in general. Although there is not a unique definition of what a smart city is, it is ...

This paper aims to examine the determinants of smart-city commitment across individuals from Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Literature has identified different factors explaining citizens’ commitment to smart cities, such as ...

This article presents a proposal for the use of virtual assistants integrated into a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), which will facilitate citizen's access to available resources in creating geospatial information ...

Smart cities promise to improve the lives of citizens. However, as smart-city systems become more effective and efficient, they become invisible, which may lead to the abuse and disempowerment of smart-city citizens. To ...

Smart Cities typify the current and future data-rich environments. In these types of environments, technology and the analysis of vast data facilitate more intelligent choices and actions—largely automated using algorithms ...

This study addresses the concept of smart governance in the context of smart cities, with a focus on analyzing the phenomenon of smart collaboration. Relying on the existing collaboration and participation concepts in the ...

Smart-grids are currently of great social and scientific interest. For certain social actors, they have generated a great deal of expectation. There are several aspects to take into account when advocating for a universal ...