Smart Cities and Smart Governance

1. Smart City: New digital technologies versus old management models.- 2. A comparative analysis of e-platforms, tools, limitations and recommendations for comparisons.- 3. Open Governance: New paradigm for public governance in the digital age.- 4. The Quest for Smart Governance, a Systematic Literature Review of Governance for Managing Smart Cities.- 5. The challenges of smart citizen engagement in Mexico City's earthquake: the use of online social medial platforms.- 6. Organizational characteristics and smart urban governance: identifying essential factors.- 7. Smart Cities in the era of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things: Promises and challenges.- 8. Smart Cities, not just technologies.- 9. Citizen participation in smart cities: lessons learned from the Netherlands.- 10. Methods and tools for participatory planning of Smart Cities interventions.- 11. Smart Governance, Smart Government.- 12. Creating Public Value in Cities: Lessons Learned about Context and Capability.- 13. Smart Sustainable City Policy Conceptualization and State of the Art Review.- 14. Insights from assessing ICT Enabled Social Innovation in Europe.- 15. AI Regulation for Smart Cities: Challenges and Principles.

Elsa Estevez is the chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Societies and Digital Governance at Universidad Nacional del Sur; an Independent Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), and Full Professor at the National University of La Plata, all in Argentina. She is also a consultant for Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) on the matters of digital government, particularly in Latin America. Previously, she was a Senior Academic Program Officer and Academic Program Officer at the United Nations University (UNU) in Macao and Portugal; Visiting Professor at the National University of Rio Negro, Argentina; Gdansk University of Technology, Poland; University of Minho, Portugal; and head of Information Technology (IT) departments in large financial and pharmaceutical organizations in Argentina. During her decade-long career in UNU, she consulted for governments, taught to public managers and policy makers, and organized events about digital government in over 30, mostly developing countries. Her research interests cover the structuring of the information technology function in government, digital transformation of government-citizen relationships, and the impact of such transformation on nations' and cities' capacity to pursue sustainable development.
Theresa A. Pardo is Director of CTG UAlbany, formerly the Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, State University of New York. She is also a Full Research Professor of Public Administration and Policy. Under her leadership, CTG works closely with multi-sector and multi-disciplinary teams from around the world to carry out applied research and problem solving projects focused on transformation in the public sector through innovations in policy, management and technology. CTG work is supported by a wide variety of funders including the U.S. National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, U.S. Department of Justice, United Nations, World Bank,