TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives
T2 - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2021, held in conjunction with the IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2021 and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference, CeDEM 2021
AU - Yerden, Xiaoyi
AU - Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
AU - Gasco-Hernandez, Mila
AU - Burke, G. Brian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - With urbanization, cities around the world have experienced increasingly complex issues that are difficult to solve using traditional strategies. So, many local governments have started smart city initiatives in order to address community issues, improve quality of life, achieve sustainable development, and, overall, make their cities smarter. As a multidimensional concept, smart city contains different components. In addition, to successfully implement smart city initiatives, local governments need to take multiple factors into consideration. Based on a survey of local governments in the United States, this article identifies what factors affect smart city and community initiatives. Overall, the analysis shows that the level of economic development, the existence of a smart city office, the availability of local government funding, the skill level of local government staff, adopting a collaborative approach, and citizens’ current IT skills all have a significant positive impact on the extent that a local government invests in smart city projects. In addition, city governments invest in significantly more types of smart city projects than villages.
AB - With urbanization, cities around the world have experienced increasingly complex issues that are difficult to solve using traditional strategies. So, many local governments have started smart city initiatives in order to address community issues, improve quality of life, achieve sustainable development, and, overall, make their cities smarter. As a multidimensional concept, smart city contains different components. In addition, to successfully implement smart city initiatives, local governments need to take multiple factors into consideration. Based on a survey of local governments in the United States, this article identifies what factors affect smart city and community initiatives. Overall, the analysis shows that the level of economic development, the existence of a smart city office, the availability of local government funding, the skill level of local government staff, adopting a collaborative approach, and citizens’ current IT skills all have a significant positive impact on the extent that a local government invests in smart city projects. In addition, city governments invest in significantly more types of smart city projects than villages.
KW - Citizen
KW - Governance
KW - Influential factors
KW - Local government
KW - Smart city
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115183870&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85115183870
SN - 9783030847883
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 205
EP - 216
BT - Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings
A2 - Scholl, Hans Jochen
A2 - Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
A2 - Janssen, Marijn
A2 - Kalampokis, Evangelos
A2 - Kalampokis, Evangelos
A2 - Lindgren, Ida
A2 - Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 7 September 2021 through 9 September 2021
ER -
