Hacking Corporate Smart Cities Under COVID-19: Towards a Smart Governance Approach

Huaxiong Jiang, Haozhi Pan, Yanliu Lin and Stan Geertman

Journal of Urban Technology, 2023, vol. 30, issue 4, 71-81

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed huge challenges on smart cities, requiring a reimagining and transformation of their governance structures. This viewpoint argues that a smart governance approach should be applied to remodel the uniform, often technocratic and corporate-led way of coping with COVID-19 in the smart city context. There is a need to develop more technology-enabled collaborative actions across sectors and among various actors to recover better from the pandemic. A far-sighted view is also needed to build citizen-centric open governance capacities—the emergent character of mass participation in cities—for readiness, responsiveness, and long-term resilience. The need for a robust communication policy is highlighted to transmit well-timed and critical information to a range of actors interested in smart city transformation.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2023.2255122

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