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Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation

Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation

Cristina Maria Pinto Albuquerque
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522519782|ISBN10: 1522519785|EISBN13: 9781522519799
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1978-2.ch011
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Albuquerque, Cristina Maria Pinto. "Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation." Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities, edited by Luisa Cagica Carvalho, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 229-247. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1978-2.ch011

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Albuquerque, C. M. (2017). Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation. In L. Carvalho (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities (pp. 229-247). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1978-2.ch011

Chicago

Albuquerque, Cristina Maria Pinto. "Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation." In Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities, edited by Luisa Cagica Carvalho, 229-247. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1978-2.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the idea that a really smart city needs not only to innovate in technologies, but also to assure that these innovations will increase social capital and participation possibilities to all citizens. In this domain ICT's to promote new forms of democratic engagement, collective collaboration or creativity stimulation are very important components of a really smart city, more human and social-valued. The focus of the discussion is thus the potential of Smart Cities to develop new possibilities to reduce social isolation and to increase new forms of autonomy, and the factors to have in consideration to avoid digital-divide. The chapter debates also questions associated with the use of surveillance and registration processes and the connected issues of liberty and privacy versus security.

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