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Smart city App: Promoting community engagement and collaboration for a sustainable future

  • Joana Monteiro
  • , Matthew Austin
  • , Gaurav Mandilwar
  • , Raj Sharman
  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

Collaboration is fundamental for cities and regions to meet the combined economic, environmental and social challenges of the 21st century. A broad array of stakeholders including citizens, non-profit organizations, private businesses, foundations, academic institutions and local governments, will need to make decisions together in order to realize a sustainable future for their communities. Our artifact was developed for the Western New York community as part of One Region Forward’s planning process, developing a single portal for all stakeholders involved to continue collaborating on the plan. We developed an application that will serve as a forum to allow citizens that are passionate about sustainability to express their ideas to other citizens and plan stakeholders to build capacity and turn their ideas into action. The artifact acts as a multi-sided platform that promotes crowdsourcing for a variety of agents to come together and participate on sustainability related projects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNew Horizons in Design Science
Subtitle of host publicationBroadening the Research Agenda - 10th International Conference, DESRIST 2015, Proceedings
EditorsBrian Donnellan, Debra VanderMeer, Jim Kenneally, Robert Winter, Marcus Rothenberger, Markus Helfert
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages396-400
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9783319187136
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event10th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2015 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: May 20 2015May 22 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9073
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2015
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period05/20/1505/22/15

Keywords

  • Activity Theory
  • Climate Change
  • Community Engagement
  • Design Science
  • Environment
  • Green IS
  • Smart City
  • Sustainability
  • Urban Planning

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