To Be Smart or To Be Alone? Exploring return on investment and problems in smart city
(2016) INFM10 20161Department of Informatics
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The European Nations foresees a growing population and a trending urbanization which, pose significant health, environmental and social concerns. Municipal decision makers attempt to leverage the smart city concept as a means to maintain the prepossessed living standard in the city because they cannot manage the radical change themselves. However, the smart city concept force municipalities outside their comfort zone and into new collaborations between internal organizations as well as external partnerships with universities, citizen and industries. The new collaborations are riddled with problems that hamper smart city advancements and convolute return on investment. This thesis attempts to further the discussion on return on investment... (More)
- The European Nations foresees a growing population and a trending urbanization which, pose significant health, environmental and social concerns. Municipal decision makers attempt to leverage the smart city concept as a means to maintain the prepossessed living standard in the city because they cannot manage the radical change themselves. However, the smart city concept force municipalities outside their comfort zone and into new collaborations between internal organizations as well as external partnerships with universities, citizen and industries. The new collaborations are riddled with problems that hamper smart city advancements and convolute return on investment. This thesis attempts to further the discussion on return on investment and expose the most predominant problems in smart city initiatives from the municipal decision makers’ perspective in mid-sized European cities. (Less)
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- author
- Regander, Alexander LU and Månsson, David
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- INFM10 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Smart city, collaboration, return on investments, problems, challenges, information systems, sustainability, Europe
- report number
- INF16-052
- language
- English
- id
- 8882148
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-27 11:07:36
- date last changed
- 2016-06-27 11:07:36
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