In search of ICT in smart cities: Policy documents as idea carriers in urban development
2016 (English)In: Electronic government: 15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings, Springer, 2016, Vol. 9820, p. 215-227Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper explores how policy documents carry and institutionalize smart city ideas from high policy level to concrete policy level in an urban development context. We analyze the national urban development vision for Sweden and documents in a local urban development project in a Swedish city, in order to explore what kind of roles and expectations ICT is given in these documents. We contrast this with views of how social and environmental aspects are discussed in the studied documents. In order to understand and analyze the result we apply the concept of institutional carriers from institutional theory to our findings. Our analysis shows that as carriers of how ICT can contribute to increased sustainabilityin urban development, the policy documents do not function very well. ICT aspects are not put forth by any policy-making actor, neither on national nor on local level. The notion of institutional carriers helped us understand that without a responsible actor focusing on ICT’s role in smart cities, it is easy to forget or lose sight of technology
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2016. Vol. 9820, p. 215-227
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349 ; 9820
Keywords [en]
Institutional carriers; Institutional theory; Policy; Smart city; Urban development
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-131612DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44421-5_17ISI: 000517791400017ISBN: 978-3-319-44420-8 (print)ISBN: 978-3-319-44421-5 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-131612DiVA, id: diva2:974833
Conference
15th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2016
Note
Funding agencies: Swedish Energy AgencySwedish Energy Agency
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