Abstract
The way citizens interact with cities affects overall life quality. Their participation in social decisions is of paramount importance for helping on public decisions that affect governance, regulation and education. This interaction has the potential of being boosted within the scope of smart and digital cities, especially by recent advances in blockchain technology. This work introduces insights about how smart cities’ concepts and innovative technologies can help society to face daily challenges for improving citizens’ awareness. Digital technologies are able to drive social and economic development by employing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to promote innovation. In this context, e-governance, in conjunction with disruptive concepts such as blockchain, is showing up as a fundamental tool for a decentralized democracy. This study reviews, discusses, raises open points and presents suggestions towards an efficient, transparent and sustainable use of technology, applied to future cities.
Highlights
The population has been increasing around the world and, along with this growth, new strategies are being planned to provide a better life for humankind
This study presents an overview of the evolution of the term smart cities, connecting it with the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the potential brought by blockchain and other emerging technologies
They defined that: “Sustainability assessment should be part of the Smart City” (SC) development and we find it important to integrate sustainability and smart city frameworks, so that both views are accounted for in performance measurement systems” [12]
Summary
The population has been increasing around the world and, along with this growth, new strategies are being planned to provide a better life for humankind. It works in order to develop technologies to promote citizens’ participation in different areas, which has been getting attention in the last decade [16] due to its impact on life quality [17] This concept intersects with Civic Tech [18]. Infrastructure provides citizens the ability of free choice over the best way to come and go In another possible view, as briefly mentioned by the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security [22], “Smart Cities rely on an ICT architecture to retrieve, process and exchange data They mention data exchange because there are different kinds of cities and management policies; common data can be used within them All these areas and concepts work much better when connected, interconnected and promoting participative actions.
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