DocumentCode :
695382
Title :
Pooling and Leveraging Scarce Resources: The Smart eCity Gov Alliance
Author :
Scholl, Hans J. ; AlAwadhi, Suha
fYear :
2015
fDate :
5-8 Jan. 2015
Firstpage :
2355
Lastpage :
2365
Abstract :
While the term "Smart City" had been used in academia and practice rather casually as a summary label for all types of technology-supported innovation in urban spaces and City governments for quite some time, more recent research rigorously delineated the concept of a Smart City via an eight-category framework, which was developed by several research teams from different parts of the world as a joint initiative. Meanwhile a number of studies have appeared, which used the framework to systematically further explore the phenomenon. This case study on the eCity Gov Alliance also employed the Smart City Framework in its design to investigate the Smart City approach that a number of small and mid-size municipalities near Seattle in the Pacific Northwest of the United States have taken. The case is unique and critical since it exemplifies how smaller and less resourceful local governments can pool and leverage their resources in ways that no single participant city could have accomplished on its own when pursuing the objective of creating a smart urban space supported by a smart municipal government. The eCity Gov Alliance was found a model for successful intergovernmental collaboration although challenges with regard to long-term sustainability were also identified.
Keywords :
local government; public administration; smart cities; Pacific Northwest United States; Seattle; city governments; eight-category framework; intergovernmental collaboration; local governments; smart city; smart eCityGov alliance; smart municipal government; smart urban space; technology-supported innovation; Cities and towns; Encoding; Government; Interviews; Sociology; Statistics; Multi-local Collaboration; Online Transaction Services; Open Government; Shared Services; Smart City; Smart Governance; Smart Government;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
ISSN :
1530-1605
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2015.283
Filename :
7070097
Link To Document :
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