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SMART-CITY: Stakeholders roles and needs
Smart-City stakeholders are plenty and diverse from one territory to another: politics, industry, startups, citizens, architects… All of them are components of forces shaping the cities. Let first draw an overview of those actors roles and needs, then think about what it implies for our society shape.
To mention this article: Julien Carbonnell “SMART-CITY: Stakeholders roles and needs.” 2019, medium.com.
INTRODUCTION: Goals and definition
At the beginning of Smart-City concept, in the middle of ’90s, being Smart meant being fully equipped with the modern infrastructure of the city pushed by IT sector companies. The term extended later: being Smart as a city now requires that relevant political, business and civil society stakeholders can engage in flexible cooperation on change, and innovative on challenges.
=>To know more about Smart-City concept history, take a look to my article “SMART-CITY: Defined by insiders”.
No single stakeholder is identified as more important than the others but all of them are identified as necessary ingredients for success. So, the interaction between government, enterprises, facilities, and citizens would be eased by connectivity, on the one hand in the sense of vertical decision-taking, on the other hand in the sense of…
