Gathering Insights on Citizen Participation Towards Building an Instrument to Study Citizen-Centric Communities

摘要

Smart cities are not only about technological developments but also about committed citizens (which can be described as smart citizens) and projects that have been started by them. The opening up of administration and the idea of transparency will gradually lead to more data being published for free use. To generate added value from these raw data, however, they must be processed creatively. This paper addresses the development of an instrument to study communities concerned with open data and the development of tools, visualisations and projects of all kinds for their cities and their fellow citizens. The focus is on citizens, their backgrounds and their motivations for participation.