Abstract
Smart cities mobilise technologically driven solutions toward urban governance and service delivery. The profitable opportunities and abundance of data made available by cities attract ICT corporations that possess the resources and knowledge to make cities smart. However, this often leads corporate actors to monopolise the data collected and generated. This poses risks for privacy and the ways in which personal data are used and commercialised. Existing work on business-to-government (B2G) data sharing and data collaboratives has explored the technical and organisational issues involved in corporate data sharing with public authorities. However, many studies remain focused on voluntary corporate data releases. This paper argues that the option of compelling companies to share data should be considered more attentively; it is one channel (among many) that has the potential to make cities more inclusive.
Highlights
The concept of smart cities refers to the integration of technology, sensors and big data through the Internet of Thing (IoT) into city governance to serve peopleâs needs [1,2].Smart cities mark the rise in demand for technologically driven solutions in the GlobalNorth and South [3] perceived as bringing significant benefits to local governments in terms of service delivery, financial savings and sustainability [4,5,6]
This paper suggests that (1) more attention should be paid to possible government interventions to compel companies to share their data and (2) B2G data sharing can potentially lead to positive outcomes, existing data sharing arrangements reveal that the priorities of corporations and governments are often diametrically opposed to citizensâ interests and that some data sharing agreements can increase corporate or political elite power over society [93,98]
This paper addressed B2G data sharing in smart cities and highlighted its potential to increase inclusiveness
Summary
The concept of smart cities refers to the integration of technology, sensors and big data through the Internet of Thing (IoT) into city governance to serve peopleâs needs [1,2]. Companies can provide a range of useful technologies, their involvement raises a number of concerns related to privacy and personal data usage [9] Those worries are especially evident when private firms possess intellectual property rights on the technologies utilised, which they are reluctant to share. Within this context, smart city authorities face difficult choices about how to provide digital and data-driven solutions to acute problems, as well as to rectify imbalances of power that may arise with ICT corporations [11]. The discussion proceeds at a broad conceptual level and aims to inform arguments about the challenges faced by smart cities with respect to data sharing, power imbalances between public authorities and private firms, as well as the participatory inclusion of citizens. Data collection has become pervasive and highly valuable and the concentration of data within large corporations results in new forms of inequity between companies and consumers and users of digital technologies [31,32,33]
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