Juan López Roca

GIS for public participation: Better decisions for smarter cities?

Does participation mean change?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years society has undergone a process of modernization and with it, there has been increased citizen participation in decision-making and public policy development. This is due to, in part, the use of Information and Communication Technology together with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the development of channels of participation. This rapprochement between citizens and institutions through technology, has encouraged the development and evolution of the smart city concept in a broad sense, applied to the university context, as test area. The goal of this work is study the relation between the three components of a smart city (human, institution, technology) through the introduction of an improvement in the technology component that allows interrelate the human and institutional component in a closer way, and analyze its potential impact on them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 179g
• ISBN-13: 9783659473432
• ISBN-10: 365947343X
• Artikelnr.: 42588879

Autorenporträt

Mr. Juan López Roca has obtained his Master of science in Geospatial Technologies in early 2014. Since then he has worked as SAP Business One consultant and developer in a small local company in Castellón (Spain), city where he was born. He is applying his GIS knowledge in the business sector to take advantage over the local business sector.