Abstract
The growth of smart cities is forcing governments to focus their efforts on the increase of public value creation. Based on prior research, on the perception of smart city practitioners and on an empirical observation, this paper seeks to analyse the public value creation under the context of the smart cities, examining the model of citizen participation and the use of new technologies by city governments in smart cities with the aim at improving e-participation of the citizenry in the public arena. Findings indicate the need for using new technologies to adopt a more participative model of governance, although, nowadays, sample smart cities are not putting available technological tools or promoting citizens to be involved in online public consultations, discussions and petitions.
Highlights
Public value creation has become a main domain of the smart city (SC) phenomenon [15] and introduces a more holistic approach to city governance, with the implementation of new and innovative forms of city governance based on the concept of network governance and pursuing the achievement of citizen-centric projects [16]
Smart cities with open data platforms usually offer the information to be downloaded in two or three information formats analysed in this paper –see table 3 in Appendix, and only 12 sample cities offer only one of the information formats analysed in this paper -see table 3 in Appendix
Under the smart cities framework, the public value creation is linked to the satisfaction of citizenry’s needs through the creation and use of smart technologies to increase their quality of life [1]
Summary
Public value creation has become a main domain of the smart city (SC) phenomenon [15] and introduces a more holistic approach to city governance, with the implementation of new and innovative forms of city governance based on the concept of network governance and pursuing the achievement of citizen-centric projects [16]. This paper contributes to the advance of the knowledge of public value creation analysing the model of citizen participation in smart cities and the use of tools for improving e-participation in these cities. To achieve this aim, this paper analyses a sample group of smart cities that are members of the EUROCITIES network and seeks to examine the model of citizen participation and to find whether perceptions about smart governance models (e-survey) are coming true into real political intentions in smart cities through the offer of e-participation tools for citizen involvement
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