Abstract
The vague concepts of the Smart city have left a significant gap for researchers to amplify the knowledge cavity. This work delved into the implementation of Smart city in The Metropolis of Lyon, France, which strongly involved public and private governance. A project named Smart Electric Lyon (SEL), organized by the Group Electricté de France (EDF), reflects Lyon's urban ecosystem as a test-bed platform to demonstrate Smart meter technology. In return, The Metropolis of Lyon seized the opportunity to promote SEL as a new reference for the local Energy Transition initiatives. This work underlined the governance model of SEL as a Smart city that encompassed a plethora of interests in both public and private. Here, the governance is comprehended in two ways, the first was the role of SEL as a technical setting to satisfy the EDF Smart meter experiments and the second was the Janus of the socio-technical and politics of SEL that compel with the local agenda. This work employed a qualitative method, deploying in-depth semi-structured interviews with dozens of key actors and intense field observations. The findings showcase SEL Smart city project as a co-production of the public and private interests rather than a merely digital innovation process. The approach through the territorial standpoint has allowed depicting a multilevel interest from different stakeholders culminated under the form of a Smart city on the city stage.
Highlights
Since the first wave of Smart city emerges in early 2000 through the indispensable role of IT industry actors such as IBM, Microsoft, Siemens, and Cisco, cities around the world are tied to transform their city planning into a "smart" one
Noting that the Urban Governance concept and Smart city are being dialogued in this article, we focused on Electricté de France (EDF) Smart city experiment phenomena carried in the city of Lyon as its Living Labs platform
To bring forth discussion of the realization of the socio-technical governance of private Smart city regarding the city agenda, it could be identified through the EDF’ Smart Grid project in Lyon Metropolis territorial ecosystem
Summary
Since the first wave of Smart city emerges in early 2000 through the indispensable role of IT industry actors such as IBM, Microsoft, Siemens, and Cisco, cities around the world are tied to transform their city planning into a "smart" one. The Smart city has become a global prescription of urban development policy in the contemporary era [1]–[3]. This claim was made publicly by the guru and the senior chief program of IBM Smart city, cities needed to equip themselves with the so-called, fourth infrastructures, integrating networks that could communicate with each other and exchange data at extraordinary speed. Despite the absence of a global consensus definition of the Smart city among scholars [8], [9], the global practice framework stretched its definition to the extensive use of ICT embedded in old city infrastructures. ICT devices, real-time connected wired, Internet of things of the cities, connected citizens are some of those general characteristics of the Smart city [10]
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