Moving beyond Smart Cities: Digital Nations for Social Innovation & Sustainability

Arpan Kumar Kar, Vigneswara Ilavarasan, M. P. Gupta, Marijn Janssen () and Ravi Kothari
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Arpan Kumar Kar: IIT Delhi
Vigneswara Ilavarasan: IIT Delhi
M. P. Gupta: IIT Delhi
Marijn Janssen: Delft University of Technology
Ravi Kothari: Ashoka University

Information Systems Frontiers, 2019, vol. 21, issue 3, No 1, 495-501

Abstract: Abstract The next step after smart cities is the creation of digital or smart nations. A digital nation requires a national transformation across diverse institutions including the urban and rural areas of a society. Besides diverse social innovation initiatives, sustainability is a key aspect, so that rather than greenfield projects, long-term solutions will involve brownfield, smart city projects. A digital transformation to a digital or smart nation requires a great deal of innovation in planning, process re-engineering and execution. Whereas research work and policy actions are traditionally focused on a city level, these efforts need to be widened to the national level. Existing city-scale theories and frameworks may be used and adapted to meet the larger-scale needs of the future smart nations. The new issues and research challenges which arise need to be addressed through interdisciplinary approaches. This special issue on the theme of digital nations attempts to address the need in the academic literature to provide a better understanding of digital nations.

Keywords: Digital nations; Smart nations; Smart cities; Innovation; Sustainability; Information and communication technology; Technology impact; Technology adoption; Implementation barriers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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