Reimagining the role of citizens in Smart City projects

Gooch, Daniel; Wolff, Annika; Kortuem, Gerd and Brown, Rebecca (2015). Reimagining the role of citizens in Smart City projects. In: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ACM, New York, pp. 1587–1594.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2801622

Abstract

The technological focus of many Smart City projects relies on top-down innovations, ignoring the role that citizens can play in improving their local communities. In this paper we outline our approach to supporting citizens in playing an active role in urban innovation, from the crowdsourcing of initial ideas through to facilitating citizen involvement in the realization of community projects. This extends previous work in the field by exploring how to go beyond identifying issues and ideas to securing a commitment from citizens to assisting a project intended to address an identified issue.

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• Item ORO ID
• 43770
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• ISBN
• 1-4503-3575-6, 978-1-4503-3575-1
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  MK:SMART, an integrated innovation and training programme leveraging large-scale city data to drive economic growth (Q-13-037-EM)	H04	HEFCE

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• Ubicomp/ISWC'15 Adjunct Proceedings.
• Keywords
• citizen innovation; public engagement; smart cities
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
  Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
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• Depositing User
• Daniel Gooch