TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring progress of smart cities
T2 - Trust and the Smart City Final Project Conference
AU - Lai, Calvin Ming Tsun
AU - Cole, Alistair
N1 - Funding information:
The project “Trust and the Smart City” was funded by Hong Kong Baptist University as part of the Faculty Niche Research Area (RC-SOSC-19/20–01). Alistair Cole is the Principal Investigator. We thank Hong Kong Baptist University for its financial support. There is no conflict of interest involved.
Publisher copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - The ‘smart city’ represents a core feature of modern urban development. The appearance of numerous smart city indices, which claim to successfully evaluate and compare smart city performances, is the manifestation of the concept's growing popularity. The central objective of this paper is to address the integrity and quality of the existing smart city indices, and identify those ones which are fit for international comparison. We propose a method for evaluating the integrity and quality of the existing smart city indices in terms of five criteria – Credibility, Reliability, Methodology, Versatility, Precision. The article critically evaluates six smart city indices and concludes that the Cities in Motion Index from the IESE Business School has the best overall performance. To improve the versatility of the existing smart city indices, this paper proposes a new approach based on respecting three main criteria: refining the types of indicator, defining the smart city domains and adopting context-sensitive measurements. These elements are deemed to be essential for any smart city index.
AB - The ‘smart city’ represents a core feature of modern urban development. The appearance of numerous smart city indices, which claim to successfully evaluate and compare smart city performances, is the manifestation of the concept's growing popularity. The central objective of this paper is to address the integrity and quality of the existing smart city indices, and identify those ones which are fit for international comparison. We propose a method for evaluating the integrity and quality of the existing smart city indices in terms of five criteria – Credibility, Reliability, Methodology, Versatility, Precision. The article critically evaluates six smart city indices and concludes that the Cities in Motion Index from the IESE Business School has the best overall performance. To improve the versatility of the existing smart city indices, this paper proposes a new approach based on respecting three main criteria: refining the types of indicator, defining the smart city domains and adopting context-sensitive measurements. These elements are deemed to be essential for any smart city index.
KW - Evaluation framework
KW - Smart city concept
KW - Smart city index
KW - Urban development
KW - Urban governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85171410930&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ugj.2022.11.004
DO - 10.1016/j.ugj.2022.11.004
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2667-3800
VL - 3
SP - 45
EP - 57
JO - Urban Governance
JF - Urban Governance
IS - 1
Y2 - 29 April 2022 through 29 April 2022
ER -
