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Smart Cities: Engaging citizens or just managing them?

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In order to become really smart, cities have to engage citizens rather than managing them like data entries. Image source: Shutterstock (#370390046).

Plenty of smart city projects were presented at the Smart City InFocus conference in Yinchuan, China, a couple of weeks ago. With all their differences, most projects rely on the power of data for improvement and transformation – this raises the usual questions: who will have access to the infrastructure from which this data is sourced and who controls the information produced?

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