Knowledge Management and Smart Sustainable Cities: Learning Cases of Urban Governance
A special issue of Urban Science (ISSN 2413-8851).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 16396
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainability; governance; public policy; urban studies; territorial intelligence; cultural planning; international regions
Interests: sustainable development; governance; citizen participation; spatial planning; regional development; e-governance; policy making; environmental analysis; territorial intelligence
Interests: sociology; research methodology; human and non-human relations; possible natures; post-sustainability; climate change and social science
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, city governments seek to apply new approaches to the production, organization, and circulation of information, focusing on the development of knowledge management (KM) for a digital transformation towards more intelligent and sustainable cities. This KM involves the identification of an indicator system that allows researchers to delimit and to monitor the suitable areas of intervention (more contextualization). KM also enables the creation of networks and forms of coordination of the multiple actors of the cities, as a factor of institutional innovation. However, and despite the great potential attributed to the use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve the governance of cities, the most advanced cases are still mostly in a phase of technological infrastructure, in which many of the constraints to digital transformation are still felt. The purpose of this Special Issue is to encourage the sharing of best practices in KM systems applied to the governance of smarter and more sustainable cities. The editors believe that sharing such cases is fundamental to guide and, above all, to accelerate the ongoing digital transformation process. The Editors of this Special Issue encourage submissions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics and issues:
- Learning cases that show the joint application of the concepts of Knowledge Management, Smart Cities, and Smart Governance
- Learning cases on knowledge management systems used in the digital transformation of cities (applied to specific sectors/problem solving)
- Good practices in the development and implementation of indicator systems in the delimitation and monitoring of urban policies and services
- Good practices in urban planning and management using ICT to increase citizen participation in urban governance
Dr. Paulo Castro Seixas
Mr. Ricardo Cunha Dias
Mr. Diogo Guedes Vidal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- big and small data
- communities of practices
- territorial intelligence
- urban acupuncture
- digital acupuncture
- learning case
- smart cities
- governance
- knowledge management
- sustainability
- good practices
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