| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 土木工程系所 === 105 === Following the growing need to develop new approaches to city management under conditions of overpopulation and increasing urbanization, the Smart Cities are becoming a go-to solution for governments in 21st century. However, the scientific literature struggles to pin down a comprehensive definition of what Smart City is, and because of this – specifics of its operation, efficiency evaluation and other structured knowledge of the phenomenon lags behind the adoption rates. Despite that, governments, companies and communities dedicate huge resources to initiatives under Smart City umbrella.
While most of the literature focuses on technological aspect of smart cities, some researches have pointed out the highest importance of Citizen Engagement to the success of the initiative. To follow up these findings this research aims to utilize Rowe-Frewer public engagement efficiency evaluation framework in order to examine efficiency of citizen engagement in 12 Smart City initiatives in Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, and Santander. This research proposes a set of sub-criteria for qualitative evaluation under Rowe-Frewer criteria and inspects the performance of the investigated initiatives and trends in Smart City project design and implementation with respect to citizen engagement based on publically accessible data about the projects. The received evaluation results support the assumption of applicableness of Rowe-Frewer framework to citizen engagement oriented Smart City projects and may provide a valuable background for future development and design of Smart City initiatives.
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