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Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government: The Case of Munich, Germany

Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government: The Case of Munich, Germany
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Author(s): Hans J. ("Jochen") Scholl (University of Washington, USA), Marlen Jurisch (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Helmut Krcmar (Technical University of Munich, Germany)and Margit C. Scholl (Technical University of Applied Sciences of Wildau, Germany)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 22
Source title: Public Affairs and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8358-7.ch089

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Abstract

City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play important roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich's smart city-related program. While the practitioners' definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners' understanding of smartness. The authors portray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution.

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