ICT and sustainability in smart cities management
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Purpose: – Contemporary debate is increasingly focused on ICT and sustainability, especially in relation to the modern configuration of urban and metropolitan areas in the so-called smartization process. The purpose of this paper is to observe the connections between smart city features as conceptualized in the framework proposed by Giffinger et al. (2007) and new technologies as tools, and sustainability as the goal. Design/methodology/approach: – The connections are identified through a content analysis performed using NVivo on official reports issued by organizations, known as industry players within smart city projects, listed in the Navigant Research Report 2013. Findings: – The results frame ICT and sustainability as “across-the-board elements” because they connect with all of the services provided to communities in a smart city and play a key role in smart city planning. Specifically, sustainability and ICT can be seen as tools to enable the smartization process. Research limitations/implications: – An all-in-one perspective emerges by embedding sustainability and ICT in smart interventions; further research could be conduct through direct interviews to city managers and industry players in order to understand their attitude towards the development of smart city projects. Practical implications: – Potential approaches emerging from this research are useful to city managers or large corporations partnering with local agencies in order to increase the opportunities for the long-term success of smart projects. Originality/value: – The results of this paper delineate a new research path looking at the development of new models that integrate drivers, ICT, and sustainability in an all-in-one perspective and new indicators for the evaluation of the interventions.
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There is a weak connection between smart targets and sustainability goals.
“Also, there is a weak connection between smart targets and sustainability goals [6,20,28], despite the proven role of ICT in supporting modern cities in moving towards sustainability [25].”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [28]
The existing definitions of smart and smarter city set up no baseline for sustainability and do not include what sustainable development entails.
“In this regard, it has been argued that the existing definitions of smart and smarter city set up no baseline for sustainability, and do not include what sustainable development entails”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [28]
Smart cities of today make an inadequate contribution to the goals of sustainable development and thus have poor sustainability performance.
“The inadequate contribution of smart cities of today to the goals of sustainable development and thus their poor sustainability performance”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [28]
Cities can well become smartly sustainable or sustainably smart if the ubiquity and massive use of ICT could primarily be directed towards improving sustainability.
“Rather, cities can well become smartly sustainable pr sustainably smart if the ubiquity and massive use of ICT could primarily be directed towards improving sustainability (e.g., [16,20,28,55,82,112]).”
From On the sustainability of smart and smarter cities in the era of big data: an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary literature review (2019) · cites this paper as [28]
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- Authors
- Bifulco, F., Tregua, M., Amitrano, C. C., & D'Auria, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- Venue
- International Journal of Public Sector Management
- Publisher
- Emerald
- Published
- 2016-03-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 132-147
- ISSN
- 0951-3558 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2301068687
- Cited by
- 322
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 33.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Public Sector Management (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) (submittedVersion)
- ARCHIVIO ISTITUZIONALE DELLA RICERCA-UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "LORIENTALE" (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Media Technology › Smart Cities and Technologies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › E-Government and Public Services
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Sustainable Urban and Rural Development
- Keywords
- smart cities, information and communication technologies, sustainability, smartization, urban management, smart city planning, industry players
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