Post-Materialist Values of Smart City Societies: International Comparison of Public Values for Good Enough Governance

Seng Boon Lim,Jalaluddin Abdul Malek,Tan Yigitcanlar

doi:10.3390/fi13080201

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This study aims to analyze the application of good enough governance in considering the citizens’ value propositions that shape smart city societies. This paper applied a quantitative method with cross-country comparisons. Survey data were derived from the World Values Survey. Malaysia was chosen as the main study area, and compared with Indonesia and other countries worldwide. The findings revealed that politics is the value of least concern across all samples. In terms of qualities for children to develop, respondents in both Malaysia and Indonesia were less concerned about imagination and unselfishness. As for materialist versus post-materialist, the ratios of Malaysia and Indonesia were slightly higher than the average; the post-materialist value of free speech was the lowest value chosen. In the long term, all countries are experiencing the trend of moving toward post-materialist societies. To be sustained under the Collective and Adaptive System of smart city societies, good enough governance in Malaysia and Indonesia should consider the cultural context of the Muslim majority, prioritize governance content that allows more space for political participation and free speech, and cultivate the imagination and unselfishness of children. The generated insights underline the critical role that smart societies play in establishing smart cities.

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At the beginning of the 21st century, a new mold of society is undergoing a silent revolution by promoting worldwide smart and sustainable city development [1]. This technology-method driven smart city trend depends on the pervasive application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoTs), algorithms, and automation to allow utopian solutions to urban problems and better urban governance [2,3,4]
In addressing the main research question, these post-materialist value propositions for the governors to consider are such as the cultural content of the religious majority, allow more space for political participation and free speech, and cultivate children in terms of imagination and unselfishness
This study is limited as it provides a macro overview linking the political struggle, the smart city concept, and the Collective Adaptive System (CAS) of smart society development and citizens’

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At the beginning of the 21st century, a new mold of society is undergoing a silent revolution by promoting worldwide smart and sustainable city development [1] This technology-method driven smart city trend depends on the pervasive application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoTs), algorithms, and automation to allow utopian solutions to urban problems and better urban governance [2,3,4]. This type of urban governance often results in panoptic surveillance, predictive profiling, and social sorting of technocratic governance [5,6]. A more complex example is the sophisticated Rio de Janeiro city command center, which manages the daily data of more than 30 municipalities, state

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