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A Comprehensive View of the 21st Century City: Smartness as Technologies and Innovation in Urban Contexts Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Innovation and Opportunities for Citizen Participation in Spanish Smart Cities

Authors : Xosé María Mahou-Lago, Enrique José Varela-Álvarez

Published in: Smarter as the New Urban Agenda

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Smart cities are a social, political, administrative, and technological phenomenon. The growth and consolidation of smart cities depends on sociotechnical conditions that implement 2.0 virtual platforms in specific sociopolitical and organizational contexts. To determine whether Spanish smart city Web portals facilitate fluid interaction between local administrations and citizens, we designed a study using heuristic test techniques to analyze Web portal usability in 20 Spanish smart cities. The objective was to identify the type and development level of electronic participation features on selected municipal Web sites.

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This is in contrast with other methods such as the “accessibility test,” for which the main automatic research applications (Cynthia Says®, eXaminator®, hera®, Truwex®, Wave®, or Taw®) allow a more quantitative and objective analysis of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
 
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Law 7/1985, of 2 April, regulating the Bases of the Local Regime (Bases del Régimen Local-articles 15, 25, and 26).
 
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The cities of Bilbao and San Sebastian are not members of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (Red Española de Ciudades Inteligentes or RECI). Yet we have included them in this study due to their significant level of smart initiatives (CGLU 2012; IDC 2012).
 
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This is broken down into two categories (100,000–200,000 and 200,000–500,000 inhabitants), according to the classification of Spanish municipalities used by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE).
 
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Metadata
Title
Innovation and Opportunities for Citizen Participation in Spanish Smart Cities
Authors
Xosé María Mahou-Lago
Enrique José Varela-Álvarez
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Smarter as the New Urban Agenda

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-17619-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-17620-8

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17620-8_20