 Public knowledge based online participation system for ubiquitous-city (U-city)Tae-Heon Moon and Sun-Young Heo International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development, 2013, vol. 4, issue 2, 126-140 Abstract: This paper investigated the ways in which a newly developed 'online public participation system' (OPPS) underpins the process of formulating a Ubiquitous City (U-City) master plan in Korea. Although U-City is an innovative and flexible concept for the future city, local governments in Korea are yet to find a way in which the old cities effectively transform to U-Cities. The key idea of the OPPS system is that U-City planning should be carried out through public participation with diverse entities and public knowledge rather than a classic 'top-down' planning process based on a closed system mainly driven by planning experts and decision-makers. The major goal of this study therefore is to show how a theoretical public participation model can be adopted to the OPPS. This study found that the OPPS plays an important role in formulating the U-City's long-term master plan by allowing diverse entities to participate the U-City planning process in anytime and anywhere. Keywords: ubiquitous cities; u-cities; online participation systems; Web 2.0; public knowledge; u-services; public participation; Korea; local government; urban planning; e-participation; ICT; ubiquitous computing; ubiquitous services; e-governance; electronic governance. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijkbde:v:4:y:2013:i:2:p:126-140 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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