Applicable Smart City Strategies for a Smart Sustainable City to Ensure Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Integration: Casablanca Case Study

A Smart city is essentially expected to diminish the utilization of assets and upgrade efficiencies. In practically any region, effectiveness brings about energy saving, diminished energy force, supportable monetary turn of events, upgraded usefulness, a safeguarded climate, and in particular, participation with the environmental change fight. In spite of the fact that financial plan, innovation, and the necessary framework are significant imperatives for helpless urban areas to accomplish shrewd and economical city objectives, the advantages of brilliant urban areas are numerous for helpless urban areas contrasted with creating and created urban areas. Helpless urban areas accomplish worked on living conditions, security, wellbeing, financial turn of events, administration, and personal satisfaction as well as accomplishing supportable energy objectives, and this study tries to distinguish those shrewd sustainable power and energy production systems that are monetarily achievable and in fact relevant in helpless urban communities. Renewable energies are a sustainable, unlimited, and decarbonized solution to address future energy challenges. In this context, Morocco has considerable lead vantage to position itself on this promising market. Furthermore, renewable energies have been highlighted as a key strategic source for the country’s green growth. Morocco has adopted the renewable energy path through a strategy targeted at the development of solar, wind, and hydroelectric power to boost its energy policy by adapting it to the challenges posed by today’s world. Nowadays, Morocco is facing a challenge to reach 52% by 2030 of its total renewable energy capacity, which will exceed 42% by the end of 2022

Citizens motivation towards solar energy in the context of the smart city, the case of Casablanca Morocco

The protection of the environment is one of the major concerns of individuals who seek to satisfy their needs without exploiting the reserve of future generations according to the principle of sustainable development. Nevertheless, any Smart City project requires the protection of the environment, the responsibility of citizens in its realization and a desire to encourage their participation in the various issues and dimensions of the creation of a smart city. Our research question aims to determine the extent to which the residents of the city of Casablanca are ready to support the Smart City project by adopting a responsible purchasing behavior towards their environment through the use of renewable energies. In order to achieve our goal we have resorted to the positivist paradigm by adopting deductive logic based on an existing theoretical model illustrated by the literature review which is the theory of self-determination. We opted for a questionnaire distributed to the profile of Internet users and the processing of the results obtained is done using the SPSS software. The analysis of the data collected showed that the majority of citizens are interested in the use of renewable energies and are ready to collaborate in the Smart City project

L’intérêt des citoyens de Casablanca envers l’utilisation des énergies renouvelables dans le contexte de la ville intelligente

L’utilisation des énergies renouvelables est considérée comme l’une des solutions majeures pour protéger l’environnement, ce qui est devenu une préoccupation majeure pour de nombreux individus qui cherchent à satisfaire leurs besoins tout en préservant les ressources pour les générations futures, en suivant le principe du développement durable. Dans ce contexte, tout projet de ville intelligente doit prendre en compte la protection de l’environnement, impliquer les citoyens dans sa conception et encourager leur participation aux différents enjeux et dimensions de cette initiative. Dans le cadre de notre recherche, nous avons étudié dans quelle mesure les résidents de Casablanca seraient disposés à soutenir le projet Smart City en adoptant des comportements responsables en matière d’exploitation des ressources naturelles. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous avons adopté le paradigme positiviste et utilisé la logique déductive basée sur un modèle théorique existant, la théorie de l’autodétermination que nous avons étayée par une revue de la literature et nous avons opté pour une enquête diffuse auprès des internautes et des habitants de la ville de Casablanca. L’analyse des données a montré que la plupart des citoyens se montrent intéressés par l’utilisation des énergies renouvelables et se déclarent prêts à collaborer au projet de la ville intelligente et que la population interrogée a un niveau élevé de responsabilité environnementale

Citizens motivation towards solar energy in the context of the smart city, the case of Casablanca Morocco

The protection of the environment is one of the major concerns of individuals who seek to satisfy their needs without exploiting the reserve of future generations according to the principle of sustainable development. Nevertheless, any Smart City project requires the protection of the environment, the responsibility of citizens in its realization and a desire to encourage their participation in the various issues and dimensions of the creation of a smart city. Our research question aims to determine the extent to which the residents of the city of Casablanca are ready to support the Smart City project by adopting a responsible purchasing behavior towards their environment through the use of renewable energies. In order to achieve our goal we have resorted to the positivist paradigm by adopting deductive logic based on an existing theoretical model illustrated by the literature review which is the theory of self-determination. We opted for a questionnaire distributed to the profile of Internet users and the processing of the results obtained is done using the SPSS software. The analysis of the data collected showed that the majority of citizens are interested in the use of renewable energies and are ready to collaborate in the Smart City project

Urban crowdsourcing: exploring the role of citizens in co-creating smart cities

editorial reviewedMore than ever, cities are facing complex challenges due to an increasing number of residents and due to the scarcity of natural resources. As a possible solution to these challenges, the concept of “smart cities” has emerged pointing out that cities need to become intelligent in order to enhance their efficiency and to improve their competitiveness. A Smart City is characterized through six common indicators: smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart environment, smart mobility, and smart living (Giffinger et al., 2007). Despite some recent research examining the role of citizens in smart cities, work in this area is still at a nascent stage. Our research suggests considering citizens as a driving force for the development of smarter cities and thereby encourages the emergence of new methods of design, construction and management of the city. More particularly, crowdsourcing has been suggested as an innovative approach of interaction between a city and its residents (Renault &Boutigny, 2014). Crowdsourcing practices draw on citizens’ resources, ideas and creativity to support the urban development. Thereby, crowdsourcing uses the Internet to attract users who are willing to provide their inputs and insights. This conceptual research contributes to the smart city and crowdsourcing literature by providing an integrative overview of crowdsourcing practices considered as a useful digital tool to complement traditional participation practices for governance. From a managerial perspective, we provide guidance in designing successful smart cities for a better future

Urban crowdsourcing: Stakeholder selection and dynamic knowledge flows in high and low complexity projects

peer reviewedUrban crowdsourcing is a new form of open innovation that aims to develop smart cities. Due to the heterogeneity of partners in urban planning, knowing the type of knowledge gained from each stakeholder at each stage of the crowdsourcing process needs to be understood for effective collaborations and innovative knowledge flow activation. Using a qualitative approach with experts involved in the Casablanca Smart City project, this research investigates complex multi-stakeholder ecosystems. More specifically, this study identifies and examines the role of external stakeholders at each stage of the innovation process, and the resulting dynamic knowledge flows that help improve the process of urban crowdsourcing in the development of smart city solutions. Depending on the complexity of the innovation project, findings identify three primary stakeholders (citizens, public authorities, and private and public firms) and three secondary stakeholders (NGOs, universities, consulting companies). Results show at which of the four steps of urban crowdsourcing they intervene. Furthermore, the findings reveal a dynamic learning environment composed of two knowledge flows (“learning with” and “learning from” stakeholders)

Urban crowdsourcing:exploring the role of citizens in co-creating smart cities

editorial reviewedMore than ever, cities are facing complex challenges due to an increasing number of residents and due to the scarcity of natural resources. As a possible solution to these challenges, the concept of “smart cities” has emerged pointing out that cities need to become intelligent in order to enhance their efficiency and to improve their competitiveness. A Smart City is characterized through six common indicators: smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart environment, smart mobility, and smart living (Giffinger et al., 2007). Despite some recent research examining the role of citizens in smart cities, work in this area is still at a nascent stage. Our research suggests considering citizens as a driving force for the development of smarter cities and thereby encourages the emergence of new methods of design, construction and management of the city. More particularly, crowdsourcing has been suggested as an innovative approach of interaction between a city and its residents (Renault &Boutigny, 2014). Crowdsourcing practices draw on citizens’ resources, ideas and creativity to support the urban development. Thereby, crowdsourcing uses the Internet to attract users who are willing to provide their inputs and insights. This conceptual research contributes to the smart city and crowdsourcing literature by providing an integrative overview of crowdsourcing practices considered as a useful digital tool to complement traditional participation practices for governance. From a managerial perspective, we provide guidance in designing successful smart cities for a better future