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Reimagining the role of citizens in smart city projects

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Daniel Gooch,

Annika Wolff,

Gerd Kortuem,

Rebecca BrownAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct: 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

Pages 1587 - 1594

https://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2801622

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

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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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DOI:10.1145/2800835

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