Smart Cities and Smart City Government Minitrack (Introduction)
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This minitrack focuses on the interactions between citizens, government, and technology to promote, facilitate, and create smart cities. Smart City is a fuzzy concept, not well defined in theoretical researches nor in empirical projects. However, all the proposed definitions agree on the fact that a Smart City is an urban space that tends to improve the daily life (work, school ...) of its citizens. This is an improvement from different points of view: social, political, economic, governmental,... Finally, although Smart Cities are based on ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), people (with their knowledge, habits, experiences, culture and behavior) remain at the heart of concerns. This minitrack brings together streams of research on this topic, while simultaneously offering a platform for emerging and innovative research in this subject.
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