Smart City Governance Using Big Data Technologies

Abstract

The population of urban (UN, 1993) was claimed to be 2.96 billion in 2000 and 3.77 in 2010. There are 50 million people that are added to urban population and almost 35 million people that are added to the rural population each year in the world. Almost 37% of the urban population was staying in million plus cities. There are 12 cities containing million plus population as per India 2001 census; they are Agra, Allahabad, Amritsar, Asansol, Dhanbad, Faridabad, Jabalpur, Jamshedpur, Meerut, Mumbai, Nashik, Rajkot, and Vijayawada. In the future, ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) will play progressively dominant role in the governance of these cities. Using the ICT to revamp the working efficiency, sharing information with the public, and ameliorating the quirk of government services to the citizen's welfare is called “smart cities”. The work pressure in the governments is rising to hike their productivity in the world and, especially, to do more with less. In the late global downturn, governments are struggling to provide a top drawer of public services in a low budget. They are trying to reduce high budget deficits and built up the debt levels through spending public money heavily to stimulate growth. The reason could be lack of transparency and coordination between government departments that work together to realize better services to citizens. Governments are trying to take advantage through information to improve performance and transparency in the governanc…