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The ‘smart’ heritage mediation

There are nearly as many definitions of a smart city as cities that call themselves smart. Besides, every city focuses its own smart initiatives according to its local issues in order to find ways to tackle its own challenges or to promote a given urban aspect. This makes it difficult to pinpoint just one smart…

Featured Article, Information Society, New Technologies, Smart Systems, Technological Solutions

A funding source for companies: European programmes

European programmes may become a great opportunity for companies that have no access to credit yet. Nevertheless, taking part in them is no easy task. High demand, fierce competition and limited resources are the major hindrances when it comes to obtaining such funding.

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Smart Cities Diplomacy: Smart Power

In 2018, no city mayor representing a city (with more than 1 million citizens) located in a developed country should ever answer “I don’t know” when asked the following question: “What is the Citizen Engagement Rate of the city you represent?”. That is to say: “What is the percentage (%) of citizens who are involved…

Digital Cities, Featured Article, Future Cities, Smart Cities

Evolution of smart cities in Latin America | Brazil

The current article focuses on Rio de Janeiro because of its uniqueness: the future olympic city (2016) is the smart city in Latin America on which more information is available on-line. Brasil belongs to a group of countries known as BRICS , it is the largest economy in Latin America and the second one in…

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Measuring the Smart City

The SC concept has been adding new areas to its definition, given its fuzzy, emergent and dynamic nature. Most approaches focus on measuring production goals, and only a few of them take the impact on citizens into consideration.