Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States

Xiaoyi Yerden; J. Ramon Gil-Garcia; Mila Gasco-Hernandez; G. Brian Burke

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15

Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States

Xiaoyi Yerden
, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia^*
, Mila Gasco-Hernandez
, G. Brian Burke

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Hans Jochen Scholl, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Marijn Janssen, Evangelos Kalampokis, Evangelos Kalampokis, Ida Lindgren, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	205-216
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783030847883
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	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 - Granada, Spain Duration: 7 Sept 2021 → 9 Sept 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12850 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	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
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Granada
Period	7/09/21 → 9/09/21

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Citizen
Governance
Influential factors
Local government
Smart city

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Yerden, X., Gil-Garcia, J. R., Gasco-Hernandez, M., & Burke, G. B. (2021). Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States. In H. J. Scholl, J. R. Gil-Garcia, M. Janssen, E. Kalampokis, E. Kalampokis, I. Lindgren, & M. P. Rodríguez Bolívar (Eds.), Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings (pp. 205-216). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12850 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15

Yerden, Xiaoyi ; Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon ; Gasco-Hernandez, Mila et al. / Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives : Lessons from Local Governments in the United States. Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings. editor / Hans Jochen Scholl ; J. Ramon Gil-Garcia ; Marijn Janssen ; Evangelos Kalampokis ; Evangelos Kalampokis ; Ida Lindgren ; Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. pp. 205-216 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Yerden, X, Gil-Garcia, JR, Gasco-Hernandez, M & Burke, GB 2021, Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States. in HJ Scholl, JR Gil-Garcia, M Janssen, E Kalampokis, E Kalampokis, I Lindgren & MP Rodríguez Bolívar (eds), Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12850 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 205-216, 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, Granada, Spain, 7/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15

Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States. / Yerden, Xiaoyi; Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon; Gasco-Hernandez, Mila et al.
Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings. ed. / Hans Jochen Scholl; J. Ramon Gil-Garcia; Marijn Janssen; Evangelos Kalampokis; Evangelos Kalampokis; Ida Lindgren; Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021. p. 205-216 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12850 LNCS).

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Yerden X, Gil-Garcia JR, Gasco-Hernandez M, Burke GB. Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States. In Scholl HJ, Gil-Garcia JR, Janssen M, Kalampokis E, Kalampokis E, Lindgren I, Rodríguez Bolívar MP, editors, Electronic Government - 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2021. p. 205-216. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84789-0_15

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