Towards smart city education

Sustainability has been an important topic in UK schools for some time, most notably since the Sustainable School Strategy was proposed by the UK Department for Education (DFES) in 2006. However, as smart city technologies emerge and show real promise in contributing to a more sustainable future, it is becoming apparent that new skills for working with the big urban data sets that drive these innovations must be taught to upcoming generations to ensure that they can be active smart city citizens. Current practice within schools is to distribute teaching of different aspects of data skills across the curriculum. We ask the question how can data skills be taught using a more unified and practical approach, which facilitates application of skills in genuine, smart city contexts. We propose to use Urban Data Games to set a context for learning, and demonstrating, practical application of skills for handling large complex data sets. This paper focuses on an Appathon challenge, which will shortly be trialled in a Milton Keynes school, in which participants are tasked to design a novel App from real satellite data after first learning and applying data skills to data about home energy consumption

Towards a smart city concept in small cities

The smart city concept brings together technology, government and different layers of society, utilizing technological enablers, such as the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI). These enablers, in turn, facilitate development of various aspects of the smart city including, e.g., transportation, governance, education, safety and communications. However, the transition towards smarter cities involves not only technological development but also the changing and evolving roles of citizens, service providers and city authorities. In this transition, the key issue is creating and growing roles of collaboration, participation and coordination. Whereas mainstream research focuses on smart city transformation in big cities, aspects of this transformation in the context of small cities has been a widely neglected topic. This paper presents three cases of smart city development in small cities in Finland, each concentrating on a different aspect of smart city development. The cases reveal how a relatively small-sized city may take remarkable steps in smart city development by selecting a specific theme on which to build smart city activities. These examples also emphasize the critical role of public sector actors, showing that the public sector has a key role in creating the foundations for fruitful ecosystem-based development work.©2019 This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed

Integrative secondary-education programs and research in smart cities context

A smart city can be considered as a specific form of modern city that emphasizes the efficiency of infrastructures by using ICT: many early models equate a smart city with the systemic integration of ICT in e.g. the energy or the mobility sectors – while not considering societal aspects. Innovation is recognized as a key driver in smart city, and thus people, education, learning, research and knowledge gain central importance. This paper sums up the relevant national smart cities activities in Austria and provides an indepth insight into the smart cities activities at the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Technikum Wien, focusing on gender, diversity and citizen integration in the smart city decision processes. Current steps towards integration of smart cities into research and teaching include recently established smart cities competence team, endowed professorship and the planed smart cities conference in Vienna. Furthermore, the paper is summarizes elaborated educational programs at the UAS Technikum Wien with smart cities focus. Initial base for the smart cities integration in educational and research activities at UAS Technikum Wien has been built within the framework of the European Academic Smart Cities Network (EU-ASCIN) project, with the main goal to establish an Academic Smart Cities Network in cooperation with national and international universities and research institutes. Furthermore, the project allowed to build up professional competence in the area of smart cities oriented education and to expand the training opportunities at the UAS Technikum Wien with smart cities tailored Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs. This paper summarizes the project results of the EU-ASCIN project and in particular describes exemplary integration of the proposed educational programs based on practice- and professional field-oriented, diversity-fair approach. Along with the educational approach, UAS Technikum Wien also supports with research and demonstration projects, to guerantee sustainable integration of the smart cities topic at the UAS Technikum Wien. This paper provides information concerning selected, demonstration project “Korneuburg WAY2Smart”. The project “Way2Smart” is driven by the intention to live up to its 2036 Vision Statement and Master Plan. The municipality of Korneuburg intends to rehabilitate two municipality-owned residential buildings, densify them by way of superstructures and annexes and equip them with energy-generating areas, and thus at the same time contribute to covering young tenants’ demand for affordable small apartments. This paper shows the endeavors to achieve the ambitious objectives in terms of energy and CO2- saving in Korneuburg by 2036 and concentration on “social togetherness”

Planning & Open-Air Demonstrating Smart City Sustainable Districts

The article is focused on the \u201cdemonstration\u201d activities carried out by the University of Genoa at Savona Campus facilities in order to implement the \u201cLiving Lab Smart City\u201d. The idea is to transform the Savona Campus in a Living Lab of the City of the Future: smart technologies in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and energy sectors were installed in order to show a real application of the Smart City concept to population and external stakeholders. Moreover, special attention was given to the environment, personal wellbeing, and social equalities. The sustainable energy Research Infrastructures (RIs) of Savona Campus allowed enhancement of the applied research in degree programs and the collaboration with several companies. In particular, an important partnership with the Italian electric Distribution System Operator (DSO), ENEL S.p.A., started in 2017 to test the capability of these RIs to operate disconnected from the National Grid, relying only on the supply of renewables and storage systems. The \u201cLiving Lab Smart City\u201d is an important action to reduce the carbon footprint of the Savona Campus and to increase the awareness of students, teachers and researchers towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutes

The Status of Adoption of Social Media Analytics: Three Cases in South African and German Government Departments

Lack of access to technologies and quality data are key challenges for reducing the digital divide and developing digital citizens to support Smart City initiatives. This paper reviews efforts towards Smart Cities and access to smart technology and Open Data in developed economies globally and in South Africa. Reviews of literature and websites were conducted and the Qualitative Content Analysis method was used to analyse the data. The contributions are the commonalities and differences between Smart City initiatives in developed economies and in South Africa. The findings revealed that in developed countries the focus was mainly on e-services, citizen engagement, Intelligent Transport Systems and energy systems. They provided city-wide connectivity and addressed integration and interoperability challenges. The technologies included large IoT sensors and WiFi in-motion networks incorporating internationally accepted standards. Initiatives in South Africa were less mature, mostly in the initial stages and are not addressing other more urgent needs of the country such as water, food, shelter and education. Collaboration with best practice Smart Cities is needed to provide support to current and future initiatives in South Africa and for the development of African digital citizens

Access to Technology and Data in Smart Cities for South African Digital Citizens

Lack of access to technologies and quality data are key challenges for reducing the digital divide and developing digital citizens to support Smart City initiatives. This paper reviews efforts towards Smart Cities and access to smart technology and Open Data in developed economies globally and in South Africa. Reviews of literature and websites were conducted and the Qualitative Content Analysis method was used to analyse the data. The contributions are the commonalities and differences between Smart City initiatives in developed economies and in South Africa. The findings revealed that in developed countries the focus was mainly on e-services, citizen engagement, Intelligent Transport Systems and energy systems. They provided city-wide connectivity and addressed integration and interoperability challenges. The technologies included large IoT sensors and WiFi in-motion networks incorporating internationally accepted standards. Initiatives in South Africa were less mature, mostly in the initial stages and are not addressing other more urgent needs of the country such as water, food, shelter and education. Collaboration with best practice Smart Cities is needed to provide support to current and future initiatives in South Africa and for the development of African digital citizens

Sustainable Development: An Analytical Vision for Smart Dubai City Social Policies

This study explores the sociological perspective required for achieving holistic and sustainable development in social contexts. It focuses on Dubai as a smart city exemplar, investigating the integration of comprehensive development that encompasses social, economic, cultural, and technological aspects, as well as sustainable development that includes environmental sustainability. The research provides valuable insights into Smart Dubais social dimensions and highlights its commendable efforts towards sustainable social development. The discussion explores the various social policies implemented in Dubai, which serve to regulate the conduct, initiatives, and practices of both the government and non-governmental entities, as well as individuals, in order to address a wide array of social challenges. Furthermore, it explores the application of certain development theories, such as post-modernism, and how they have contributed to Dubais cultural shift towards embracing socio-economic standards. Additionally, the theory of ecological modernization is examined, highlighting its role in integrating environmental concerns with social institutions that promote sustainable policies for the advancement of a smart city. The research employs a case study methodology, analyzing secondary data and official records to assess Smart Dubais policies and highlight its social sustainability development. Findings reveal that Smart Dubai has made significant progress in embracing social issues through its policies, and it is on the road towards social sustainability in terms of family unity, gender equality, demographic balance, health, education, popular participation and balancing in terms of services between UAE citizens and expatriates. The research recommends that Dubai have a bureau for studying policies to mitigate social challenges and phenomena as well as an authority for collecting social data

Citizens Adoption and Intellectual Capital Approach

학위논문 (박사)-- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 협동과정 기술경영·경제·정책전공, 2019. 2. Hwang, Junseok .The emergence of knowledge intensive industries gave rise to the issue of intellectual capital management which is used as an instrument to identify and measure the hidden sources of value creation at the firm, regional and national level. Knowledge-intensive companies are rated much higher than their book value suggests, and thus need to identify the intangible valuables of the company for the improvement and sustainability of their learning and capitalization system. Intellectual capital components are the key resources that can be leveraged for smart city development which intends to use information and communication technologies in order to bring efficiency and sustainability to the urban functions. The role of intellectual capital components in smart city implementation needs to be studied due to the fact that attributes of intellectual capital components would have a distinguished impact on value creation and the increase in productivity and performance. Despite the existence of a significant number of literatures on intellectual capital, the role of its components in the success of smart city implementation has not been examined. This research aims to investigate the role of intellectual capital components towards smart city success using an analysis of experts preferences for human capital and structural capital. The research also includes the demand-side perspective towards smart city information services characteristics that influences the adoption decision. The analysis is performed using two methodologies: Analytics Hierarchy Process (AHP) for human capital and structural capital and discrete choice analysis using a mixed logit model for the adoption of smart city information services. The first study employs a multidimensional approach to the development of a model for human capital using individual-level characteristics and the collective behavior. The identification of the sources of value in human capital is critical to the success of smart city implementations as these capabilities can be leveraged and upgraded to improve productivity and performance. Human capital components have been categorized into personal qualifications, personal traits, culture and social factors. The findings reveal that the most important category is personal qualifications followed by culture. Moreover, the overall priority weights estimation shows that the existence of domain-specific tacit knowledge gained through experience, the multi-disciplinary scope of education and the density of R&D personnel are the top-three ranked attributes of human capital towards smart city success. The study on the structural capital examined 24 smart city cases across the globe to identify the structural capital elements valuable in the smart city development process. The different orchestration of these structural capital elements can influence the outcome of the development process and its impact on the efficiency of the urban systems. The identified structural capital elements have been categorized into process, relational and infrastructural dimensions. The findings reveal that the infrastructural dimension comprising communication and information system is most critical towards the smart city success, followed by the process category with the most dominant component of policy. The overall ranking of these elements suggest that the decision makers need to focus on city-level policies and the development and enforcement of procedures for innovation generation. Finally, the citizens preferences analysis was performed for the case of Islamabad city in Pakistan which is at the early stage of smart city development and can benefit from a better understanding of the demand-side perspective. The characteristics of smart city information services considered in the study comprise language, access mode, service ownership, interoperability and security. Willingness-to-pay was used to observe the price sensitivity of the end users choices. The findings reveal that citizens in Islamabad have a higher utility towards the use of the English language, a mobile access mode and a high level of security. In conclusion, the study provides guidelines for policy makers who are concerned with the early stage of smart city development. The demand-side study of Islamabad city provides valuable insights in to existing trends that affect the rapid adoption of smart city services.국문초록 지식집약적 산업의 출현으로 기업, 지역 및 국가 차원에서 가치 창출의 숨겨진 출처를 파악하고 측정하는 도구로 사용되는 지적 자본 관리가 쟁점으로 떠올랐다. 지식집약적 기업은 순자산보다 훨씬 높은 평가를 받고 있기 때문에 그들의 학습과 자본화 시스템의 개선과 지속 가능성을 위해 회사의 무형 가치를 확인할 필요가 있다. 지적 자본요소는 정보통신 기술을 이용해 도시 기능에 효율성과 지속성을 높이는 스마트 시티 개발에 활용될 수 있는 핵심 자원이다. 지적 자본 요소의 속성은 가치 창출과 생산성 및 성능 향상에 가변적인 영향을 미칠 수 있기 때문에 스마트 시티 구현에서의 지적 자본 요소의 역할을 연구할 필요가 있다. 지적 자본에 관한 중요한 연구 문헌들이 있지만 스마트 시티의 성공적인 구현을 위한각 요소들의 역할은 검토되지 않았다. 이 연구는 인적자본과 구조자본에 대한 전문가의 선호도 분석을 사용하여 스마트 시티의 성공을 위한 지적 자본 요소의 역할 조사를 목적으로 한다. 또한 수용 의사 결정에 영향을 미치는 스마트 시티 정보 서비스 특성에 대한 수요 측면의 관점도 조사한다. 분석은 인적 자본 및 구조적 자본을 위한 분석 계층 프로세스(AHP)와 스마트 시티 정보 서비스 채택을 위한 혼합 로짓 모델을 이용한 이산 선택 분석이라는 두 가지 방법을 사용한다. 첫 번째 연구는 다차원적 접근법을 사용해 개인 수준의 특성과 집단 행동을 이용한 인적 자본에 대한 모델을 개발한다. 인적 자본의 가치의 근원을 식별하는 것은 스마트 시티 구현 성공에 매우 중요하다. 이러한 능력들이 활용되고 개선되어 생산성과 성능을 향상시킬 수 있기 때문이다. 인적 자본 요소는 개인의 자격, 성격, 문화, 사회적 요인으로 분류되었다. 그 결과, 첫번째로 중요한 것은 개인의 자격요건이며 두번째는 문화임을 밝혀냈다. 또한, 전체적인 우선순위 가중치 추정은 경험을 통해 얻은 도메인 고유의 암묵적 지식의 존재, 다분야의 교육 범위 및 R&D 인력의 밀도는 스마트 시티 성공을 위한 인적 자본의 상위 3대 속성임을 보여준다. 구조적 자본에 관한 연구는 전 세계 24개 스마트 시티 사례를 조사해 스마트 시티 개발 과정에서 가치 있는 구조적 자본의 요소를 확인했다. 서로 다른 구조적 자본 요소의 조정은 개발 프로세스의 결과와 도시 시스템의 효율성에 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 확인된 구조적 자본 요소는 프로세스, 관계 및 기반 구조 차원으로 분류되었다. 이는 통신과 정보 시스템을 구성하는 기반 구조의 차원이 스마트 시티의 성공에 가장 중요하며 그 다음으로 정책의 가장 우세한 구성 요소를 가진 프로세스 범주가 중요하다는 것을 보여준다. 이들 요소의 전체 순위는 의사결정자들이 혁신 생성을 위한 도시 수준의 정책과 절차 개발과 집행에 초점을 맞출 필요가 있음을 시사한다. 마지막으로, 스마트 시티 개발의 초기 단계에 있으며 수요 측면 관점에서 유용할 수 있는 파키스탄의 이슬라마바드 도시에 대한 시민의 선호 분석이 이루어졌다. 본 연구에서 고려한 스마트 시티 정보 서비스의 특성은 언어, 접근 모드, 서비스 소유권, 상호운용성 및 보안으로 구성된다. 지불 의지는 최종 사용자의 선택에 따른 가격 민감도를 관찰하기 위해 사용되었다. 연구 결과는 이슬라마바드 시민들이 높은 수준의 보안과 함께 영어 사용에 더 높은 효용을 가지고 있다는 것을 보여준다. 결론적으로, 이 연구는 특별히 스마트 시티 개발의 초기 단계에 있는 정책 입안자들을 위한 지침을 제공한다. 이슬라마바드시에 대한 수요 측면 연구는 스마트 시티 서비스의 신속한 채택을 지원하는 기존 추세에 대한 귀중한 통찰력을 제공한다. 주요 단어: 스마트 시티, 지적 자본, 인적 자본, 구조적 자본, 정보 서비스Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Overview 1 1.2 Purpose of the Research 9 1.3 Contribution of the Research 12 1.4 Research Outline 15 Chapter 2 Literature Review 18 2.1 Smart Cities 18 2.1.1 Smart City Definitions 19 2.1.2 Smart City Components 22 2.1.3 Smart City Systems Architecture 28 2.2 Intellectual Capital 30 2.2.1 Existing Studies on Intellectual Capital 32 2.2.2 Intellectual Capital and Smart Cities 37 2.2.3 Intellectual Capital Components 39 Chapter 3 Study on the Role of Human Capital for Smart City Success 50 3.1 Model 52 3.1.1 Personal Qualifications 54 3.1.2 Personal Traits 57 3.1.3 Culture 58 3.1.4 Social Factors 59 3.2 Methodology 60 3.2.1 Survey for Analytic Hierarchy Process 63 3.3 Estimation of Results 66 Chapter 4 Study on Structural Capital Role for Smart City Success 74 4.1 Model 77 4.1.1 Process Elements 77 4.1.2 Relational Elements 81 4.1.3 Infrastructural Elements 82 4.2 Methodology 85 4.2.1 Survey for Analytic Hierarchy Process 85 4.3 Estimation of Results 87 Chapter 5 Adoption of Smart City Information Services 95 5.1 Citizens Preferences Analysis towards the Adoption of Smart City Information Services 95 5.2 Model 97 5.3 Methodology 101 5.3.1 Random Utility Model 101 5.3.2 Willingness to Pay 104 5.4 Survey Design and Data 105 5.4.1 Survey for Discrete Choice Analysis 105 5.5 Estimation of Results 109 Chapter 6 Discussion and Conclusion 115 6.1 Discussion and Implications 115 6.2 Conclusion 128 6.3 Limitations and Future Work 131 References 134 Appendix A: Description of Attributes for AHP Survey 152 Appendix B: Survey Questionnaire for AHP 155 Appendix C: Conjoint Survey for Citizens Preference Analysis 163 국문초록 166 Acknowledgments 169Docto