TY - JOUR
T1 - Opening up smart cities
T2 - Citizen-centric challenges and opportunities from GIScience
AU - Degbelo, Auriol
AU - Granell, Carlos
AU - Trilles, Sergio
AU - Bhattacharya, Devanjan
AU - Casteleyn, Sven
AU - Kray, Christian
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This work has been funded by the European Commission through the GEO-C project (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant Agreement number 642332, http://www.geo-c.eu/). Carlos Granell and Sven Casteleyn have been partly funded by the Ram?n y Cajal Programme (grant numbers RYC-2014-16913 and RYC-2014-16606 respectively). The authors thank Carl Schultz and Malumbo Chipofya who assisted in proofreading the article, and the rest of the GEO-C consortium (PhD students, scholars, and associate partners) for their valuable discussions over the past months on the topic of the paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the authors.
PY - 2016/2/17
Y1 - 2016/2/17
N2 - The holy grail of smart cities is an integrated, sustainable approach to improve the efficiency of the city's operations and the quality of life of citizens. At the heart of this vision is the citizen, who is the primary beneficiary of smart city initiatives, either directly or indirectly. Despite the recent surge of research and smart cities initiatives in practice, there are still a number of challenges to overcome in realizing this vision. This position paper points out six citizen-related challenges: the engagement of citizens, the improvement of citizens' data literacy, the pairing of quantitative and qualitative data, the need for open standards, the development of personal services, and the development of persuasive interfaces. The article furthermore advocates the use of methods and techniques from GIScience to tackle these challenges, and presents the concept of an Open City Toolkit as a way of transferring insights and solutions from GIScience to smart cities.
AB - The holy grail of smart cities is an integrated, sustainable approach to improve the efficiency of the city's operations and the quality of life of citizens. At the heart of this vision is the citizen, who is the primary beneficiary of smart city initiatives, either directly or indirectly. Despite the recent surge of research and smart cities initiatives in practice, there are still a number of challenges to overcome in realizing this vision. This position paper points out six citizen-related challenges: the engagement of citizens, the improvement of citizens' data literacy, the pairing of quantitative and qualitative data, the need for open standards, the development of personal services, and the development of persuasive interfaces. The article furthermore advocates the use of methods and techniques from GIScience to tackle these challenges, and presents the concept of an Open City Toolkit as a way of transferring insights and solutions from GIScience to smart cities.
KW - citizen participation
KW - citizen-centric challenges
KW - GIScience
KW - maps
KW - open data
KW - smart cities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962407115&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/ijgi5020016
DO - 10.3390/ijgi5020016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84962407115
SN - 2220-9964
VL - 5
JO - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
JF - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
IS - 2
M1 - 16
ER -