Developing smart cities as digital ecosystems and service platforms helps to rediscover and value the citizenship. Cities help for formation of citizenship being entities where people are learning to become good citizens. Within post-industrial and service economies and knowledge based societies cities tend to emerge as drivers and engines of social, cultural and economic urban development. Smart city is enabled by the use of technologies in order to improve competitiveness and ensure a sustainable development by combining networks of people, businesses, technologies, infrastructures, consumption, energy and spaces. Cities as service organizations provide infrastructures ICTs-enabled and digital platforms for advanced services to support business and improve quality of public life. Citizens planning smart initiatives contribute to improve services and quality of life for citizens reinforcing and rediscovering the meaning of citizenship as related to urban and local dimension by encouraging participation of citizens in urban and policy processes.
Rediscovering Citizenship by Sustaining Smart Cities
ROMANELLI, Mauro
2017-01-01
Abstract
Developing smart cities as digital ecosystems and service platforms helps to rediscover and value the citizenship. Cities help for formation of citizenship being entities where people are learning to become good citizens. Within post-industrial and service economies and knowledge based societies cities tend to emerge as drivers and engines of social, cultural and economic urban development. Smart city is enabled by the use of technologies in order to improve competitiveness and ensure a sustainable development by combining networks of people, businesses, technologies, infrastructures, consumption, energy and spaces. Cities as service organizations provide infrastructures ICTs-enabled and digital platforms for advanced services to support business and improve quality of public life. Citizens planning smart initiatives contribute to improve services and quality of life for citizens reinforcing and rediscovering the meaning of citizenship as related to urban and local dimension by encouraging participation of citizens in urban and policy processes.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.