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Human Centric Smart Cities. Redefining the smart city.

  • Smart cities have traditionally been studied from a technocentric perspective. However,such technological conceptualizations of smart cities are no longer adequate in today’s society. This policy brief discusses another alternative, human centric smart cities. Human centric smart cities are cities that practice smart governance, are collaborative, focused on user needs, supportive of innovation, and are ultimately oriented towards the development of wellbeing and the creation of public valuefor its citizens. In human centric smart cities, the use, implementation, and development of technology is guided by these foundations. The policy brief draws on insightgenerated from an international symposium organized for the City of Berlin on the future of smart cities. The brief itself is structured around four core aspects: human centricity, inter-sectoral collaboration, data governance, and administrative capacity. The brief ends by providing initial recommendations on how to start thinking about and implementing new human centric smart city strategies. Key Points: • In human centric smart cities, adopting a public valueor happiness orientedapproach to development will be critical. • The notion of innovation and service development inside human centric smartcities is changing, driven primarily by a shift in the structure of smart city ecosystems. • New human centric smart city data governance strategies must be in line withthe creation of public value, data sovereignty, and the maintenance offundamental rights and freedoms such as those related to privacy andfreedom of expression. • The change towards more collaborative, open, and human centric smart citieswill require new governance strategies and new administrative capacities.

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Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Author(s):Luciana Cingolani, Keegan McBride, Gerhard HammerschmidORCiD
Contributing Corporation:Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance
Publication year:2022
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Number pages:19
Contributing Corporation:Hertie School Centre for Digital Governance
Release Date:2022/05/02
Hertie School Research:Centre for Digital Governance
AY 21/22:AY 21/22
Licence of document (German):Creative Commons - CC BY - 4.0 International
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