Towards the smart city 2.0: Empirical evidence of using smartness as a tool for tackling social challenges

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 142, Issue , 2019, Pages 117-128

  Trencher, Gregory ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Collaborative governance; ICT; Needs driven; Smart city; Social challenges; Social problems

Indexed keywords

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCES; NEEDS-DRIVEN; SOCIAL CHALLENGES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

SMART CITY;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; LIVELIHOOD; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SMART CITY; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

FUKUSHIMA [FUKUSHIMA (PRF)]; FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU]; HONSHU; JAPAN; TOHOKU;

EID: 85050073568     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2018.07.033     Document Type: Article

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