Although events of the past decade have significantly undermined the intellectual case for hard-core macroeconomic planning, the idea of central planning continues to enjoy legitimacy at the local and regional levels. Much of the intellectual energy of those critical of the unhampered market process seems to have channeled toward more piece-meal environmental and social-policy interventions at ...

This study presents the first results of an analysis primarily based on semi-structured interviews with government officials and managers who are responsible for smart city initiatives in four North American cities—Philadelphia and Seattle in the United States, Quebec City in Canada, and Mexico City in Mexico. With the reference to the Smart City Initiatives Framework that we suggested in our p...

During the last decade, various systems have been created to support local communities and shared interest groups. Knowledge about the use, users, and effects of these new systems is needed to inform design and implementation. In this paper we present the results of a survey among inhabitants of the Digital City, a large infrastructure for ‘virtual communities’. The number of users, the range o...

Aims: To review the impact of the services of LifeTec, a NFP (not-for-profit) statewide community-funded provider of assessment, consultation and education services to support the adoption of smart home technologies, innovations for chronic disease prevention and solutions for independent living. Methodology: a review of service data collected by LifeTec and independently evaluated Findings: Li...

In this paper, we describe the C-DAX project. The main objective of the C-DAX project is to define and implement a novel and scalable information platform for implementing a cyber-secure data and control cloud for power grids, called CDAX. It will be validated to support various smart grid use cases and deployed for a trial in a live electricity network with realworld settings.

In the past, the easiest way to attack the electrical grid would have been to physically access and destroy components. However, with the introduction of the smart grid and its increased dependence on information and communication technologies (ICT), the future grid may be vulnerable to pernicious cyber attacks performed remotely. In CRISALIS and SysSec, we are studying the properties of the en...

This paper explores how policy documents carry and institutionalize smart city ideas from high policy level to concrete policy level in an urban development context. We analyze the national urban development vision for Sweden and documents in a local urban development project in a Swedish city, in order to explore what kind of roles and expectations ICT is given in these documents. We contrast ...

By leveraging advancements in information and communications technology (ICT), Smart Cities offer many potential benefits like improved energy efficiency, management and personal security. However, this dependence on ICT also makes smart cities prone to cyber attacks. In this paper, we investigate the topic of cybersecurity for smart cities. We show how the specific characteristics of smart cit...

In Mexico, high priority energy generation target, associated with clean energy sources, have been established through the promotion of other abundant natural resources such as solar or wind energy. In addition to this, there is a global trend supported by the development of renewable energies that is leading the electrical systems to integrate distributed generation capacities. This new operat...

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