Smart city initiatives: Designing a project-level smart value assessment instrument
Van den Bergh, Joachim Dootson, Paula Kowalkiewicz, Marek Viaene, Stijn
Van den Bergh, Joachim
Dootson, Paula
Kowalkiewicz, Marek
Viaene, Stijn
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2018
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Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age
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While the smart city gains global attention as a popular umbrella term for digitally enabled sustainable city development, city administrations are faced with the managerial challenge that comes with a strategic digital transformation. Smart city projects form the frontline of smart city strategies. In these smart projects, cities find a way to implement the principles of the smart city. Many of these are high-visibility projects with substantial budget implications, and therefore require scrutiny by means of a formal selection and evaluation process. In this research-in-progress paper we propose the outline for a project-level smart value assessment instrument. The instrument should serve at the same time as a tool for smart city managers to assess and plan upfront how a project will contribute to reach the city's smart city ambition, as well as a post factum evaluation. The conceptual instrument has been developed in action-design research mode in collaboration with practitioners in the city of Brisbane, Australia and is demonstrated by mapping four smart city initiatives in different international contexts.
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Smart City, Digital Transformation