Smart cities digital transformation in Câmara Municipal de Cascais

• Autor(a) principal: Cabrita, Marta Maria Proença de Amorim
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/28398
• topic: Smart city; Municipality; Sustainability; Efficiency; Citizen participation; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Global urbanization trends around sustainability present great challenges for the cities. A Smart City concept has been developed as a strategy to understand and solve the needs of the citizens. The present study aspires to understand and explore the concept of Smart City in Cascais, as a municipality, in the interest of a potential urban construct that can answer to the social and ecological sustainability challenges that a society faces. A smart city is an urban construction by integrating information and communication technology that aims to create a sustainable economic development and a higher quality of life by outdoing in key areas, such as economy, mobility, environment, people, living and government. By surveying employees of Câmara Municipal de Cascais and using Digital Maturity Framework, we aim to understand the strengths and limitations of the smart city concept. Based on the insights from the survey, and the benchmark in the literature, we propose a Strategic Development for the Municipality to identify and organize different strategies aiming to maximize the benefits of the Smart City concept.