Enrico Ferro, Brunella Caroleo, Maurizio Leo, Michele Osella, Elisa Pautasso: The Role of ICT in Smart Cities Governance

THE ROLE OF ICT

IN SMART CITIES GOVERNANCE

www.ismb.it

Enrico Ferro, Brunella Caroleo, Maurizio Leo, Michele Osella, Elisa Pautasso

Business Model & Policy Innovation Unit

Danube University Krems Krems an der Donau (Austria)

22nd-23rd May 2013

Conspicuous environmental footprint +

critical mass in demographic and economic terms

2 Technology Intelligence for Government, Business and Society

Why Cities under the Lens?

~70% of the world’s

greenhouse emissions

~80% of the

world’s GDP

>50% of the world’s

population >50% of the

world’s job positions

Source: OECD

Source: UN-HABITAT

Source: WHO & UN-HABITAT Source: McKinsey G.I.

>60% of the world’s energy demand

Source: IEA

Cities have what it takes to be the battle-ground in the fight against climate change.

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Smart City Strategic Program

Technology Intelligence for Government, Business and Society

ISMB vision Satisfaction of stakeholders’ needs as key driver for value creation in Smart Cities.

Smart approach -  Integration of public policy

action -  Promotion of sustainable

development


How is the transition process that cities will

have to undertake going to be governed?

What role will ICT play in the

governance of the transition process?

Research Questions


Literary Background Smart Cities

Governance

Value

Smart City Governance

ICTs, human and social capital fuelling

sustainable economic growth and high quality

of life, with a wise management of natural

resources, through participatory governance

Gradual shift in focus from a mere application

of administrative and political authority

towards a bidirectional discourse with a

diversified constituency

Value in use vs. value in exchange, intrinsic value vs. instrumental value,

good simpliciter vs. perspective-dependent

good, value and societal needs


Number of complementary investments required to fruitfully exploit ICT potential

ICT as a means to an end since it does not possess an intrinsic value

Incremental product innovation characterized by a decreasing marginal utility

Iterative influence between technological solutions and social ecosystems

From Tech to Value Creation

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The Smart City House

Technology Intelligence for Government, Business and Society

INPUTS

OUTPUTS

OUTCOMES

What value should be produced?


The Value Perspective

Democracy

Personal freedom

Fair employment, affordable healthcare, education and mobility

Clean air and water, healthy food, affordable and sustainable energy and housing

Misalignment of priorities may only be considered a temporary solution.

Global economy over the 20th century

Physiological hierarchy

Highest priority

Before

After

Landmarks •  Simple and concise representation

of the process of turning a technological infrastructure into value for society.

•  Starting point for the development of a new breed of assessment frameworks aimed at evaluating the smartness of cities.

Roadblocks •  Some important steps are required

in order to turn the new governance paradigms into a mainstream practice.


Conclusive Remarks


Looking at the Future…

The real smart city will have to learn how to reconcile individual aspirations and collective needs.


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