Smart City Citizenship

Smart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the experimental, data-driven, and participatory processes of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related social innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain, grassroots social innovation, and AI-driven algorithmic and techno-political disruptions, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much-needed discussion. The book drives the reader to a better conceptual and applied comprehension of smart city citizenship for democratised hyper-connected-virialised post-COVID-19 societies. In addition, it provides a whole practical roadmap to build smart city citizenship inclusive and multistakeholder interventions through intertwined chapters of the book.

Users will find a book that fills the knowledge gap between the purely critical studies on smart cities and those further constructive and highly promising socially innovative interventions using case study fieldwork action research empirical evidence drawn from several cities that are advancing and innovating smart city practices from the citizenship perspective.

Utilises ongoing, action research fieldwork, comparative case studies for examining current governance issues, and the role of citizens in smart cities.Provides definitions of new key citizenship concepts, along with a techno-political framework and toolkit drawn from a community-oriented perspective.Shows how to design smart city governance initiatives, projects and policies based on applied research from the social innovation perspective.Highlights citizen’s perspective and social empowerment in the AI-driven and algorithmic disruptive post-COVID-19 context in both transitional and experimental frameworks

Prologue. DECONSTRUCTING Smart City Citizenship: Data Ecosystems and Democracy

Chapter 1. UNPLUGGING Smart City Citizenship: Beyond the Hyperconnected Societies

Chapter 2. DECIPHERING Smart City Citizenship: Techno-politics of Data and Urban Co-operative Platforms

Chapter 3. DEMOCRATISING Smart City Citizenship: Penta Helix Multistakeholder Policy Framework from the Social Innovation Perspective

Chapter 4. REPLICATING Smart City Citizenship: City-to-City-Learning Programme

Chapter 5. DEVOLVING Smart City Citizenship: Smart City-Regions, Data Devolution, and Technological Sovereignty

Chapter 6. COMMONING Smart City Citizenship: Data Commons through (Smart) Citizens

Chapter 7. PROTECTING Smart City Citizenship: Citizens' Digital Rights and AI-Driven Algorithmic Disruption

Epilogue. RESETTING Smart City Citizenship: Amidst the Post-COVID-19 Hyperconnected-Virialised Societies