| Title |
Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government: The Case of Munich, Germany |
| ID_Doc |
37575 |
| Authors |
Scholl, HJ; Jurisch, M; Krcmar, H; Scholl, MC |
| Title |
Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government: The Case of Munich, Germany |
| Year |
2014 |
| Published |
International Journal Of E-Planning Research, 3.0, 4 |
| DOI |
10.4018/ijepr.2014100101 |
| Abstract |
City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in "smart city" initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play important roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of "smart city," which they then compared to Munich's smart city-related program. While the practitioners' definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners' understanding of smartness. The authors portray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution. |
| Author Keywords |
ICT as core competency; Interdepartmental Collaboration; Organizational Redesign; Process Change; Process Streamlining; Smart Government |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000446759300002 |
| WoS Category |
Regional & Urban Planning |
| Research Area |
Public Administration |
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