Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness

Anna Visvizi and Miltiadis D. Lytras
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Anna Visvizi: School of Business, Deree College—The American College of Greece, 153-42 Athens, Greece
Miltiadis D. Lytras: School of Business, Deree College—The American College of Greece, 153-42 Athens, Greece

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-4

Abstract: This Special Issue of Sustainability was devoted to the topic of “Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness”. It attracted significant attention of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from all over the world. Locating themselves at the expanding cross-section of the information systems and policy making research, all papers included in this Special Issue contribute to the debate on the exploitation of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) for smart applications and computing for smart cities and rural areas research. By promoting a thorough scientific debate on multi-faceted challenges that our villages, cities, urban and rural areas are exposed to today, this Special Issue offers a very useful overview of the most recent developments in the multifaceted and, frequently overlapping, fields of smart cities and smart villages research. A variety of topics including well-being, happiness, security, Open Democracy, Open Government, Smart Education, Smart Innovation, and Migration have been addressed in this Special Issue. In this way they define the direction for future research in both domains.

Keywords: smart cities; smart villages; smart urban applications; data mining; analytics; cloud computing and open source technologies; sustainability; entrepreneurship; economic growth; international migration; forced migration; smart technologies; ICT; open democracy; open government; smart education; smart innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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