Should there be an app for that? Inhibiting and contributing factors to the development of a mobile smart city strategy for Brussels
Today, more things than people are connected to the Internet, more mobile than fixed broadband subscriptions are active and more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities. Smartphones and the mobile services and apps that run on them have become the predominant interface between citizens an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Brussels Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/1278 |
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| Summary: | Today, more things than people are connected to the Internet, more mobile than fixed broadband subscriptions are active and more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities. Smartphones and the mobile services and apps that run on them have become the predominant interface between citizens and the so-called “Smart City”. This however, poses difficulties for cities and local governments that are faced with a plethora of new challenges in a changing public service context. This paper provides nine inhibiting and contributing factors that form initial steps in re-thinking what cities in general, and Brussels specifically, should focus on in their efforts to becoming “smarter”, with mobile as a key starting point. |
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| ISSN: | 2031-0293 |