TY - JOUR
T1 - Small town vs. Big city
T2 - 2020 Ongoing Research, Practitioners, Posters, Workshops, and Projects of the International Conference EGOV-CeDEM-ePart, EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2020
AU - Yerden, Xiaoyi
AU - Gasco-Hemandez, Mila
AU - Ramon Gil-Garcia, J.
AU - Brian Burke, G.
AU - Figueroa, Miguel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Smart city initiatives aim to facilitate sustainable urbanization, promote economic development, and improve quality of life. Due to their socio-technical complexity, some reseachers argued for an integrative view in which multiple dismensions should be considered. In addition, researchers showed that the unique context of each city /community matters for the implementation of smart city initiatives. One important aspect of this context is the collaborations with diverse community partners such as public libraries. However, previous literature on the contribution of these partners to smart commnities often only presents conceptual models and lacks empirical data. This paper provides a comparative study on the smart city /community development in Ignacio, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois with a focus on the role of public libraries on the development of specific dimensions of smartness: (1) technology deployment, (2) innovation, (3) citizen participation, and (4) community stakeholder engagement. We also argue that context is very important when discussing the role of public libraries in building smart cities/communities.
AB - Smart city initiatives aim to facilitate sustainable urbanization, promote economic development, and improve quality of life. Due to their socio-technical complexity, some reseachers argued for an integrative view in which multiple dismensions should be considered. In addition, researchers showed that the unique context of each city /community matters for the implementation of smart city initiatives. One important aspect of this context is the collaborations with diverse community partners such as public libraries. However, previous literature on the contribution of these partners to smart commnities often only presents conceptual models and lacks empirical data. This paper provides a comparative study on the smart city /community development in Ignacio, Colorado and Chicago, Illinois with a focus on the role of public libraries on the development of specific dimensions of smartness: (1) technology deployment, (2) innovation, (3) citizen participation, and (4) community stakeholder engagement. We also argue that context is very important when discussing the role of public libraries in building smart cities/communities.
KW - Anchor institution
KW - Community institution
KW - Dimensions of smartness
KW - Public library
KW - Smart city
KW - Smart community
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099181300&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85099181300
SN - 1613-0073
VL - 2797
SP - 155
EP - 163
JO - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
JF - CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Y2 - 31 August 2020 through 2 September 2020
ER -