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83 User centric A smart sustainable city is one that ICT, administration, Belissent (2010)
"uses information and education, health
communications technologies to care, public safety,
make the critical infrastructure real estate,
components and services of a city – transportation,
administration, education, utilities, integrated,
healthcare, public safety, real efficient, interactive.
estate, transportation and utilities
– more aware, interactive and
efficient."
84 User centric An urbanized area where multiple Information Maio (2012)
public and private sectors exchange,
cooperate to achieve sustainable integrated, resource
outcomes through the analysis of efficiency, services,
contextual information exchanged sustainability.
between them. The sectors could
include hospitals or emergency
services or finance and so on. The
interaction between sector‐specific
and intra‐sector information flows
results in more resource‐efficient
cities that enable more sustainable
citizen services and more
knowledge transfer between
sectors.
85 User centric Cities need to differentiate ICT, services, IDC (2014)
themselves to attract investment efficient,
and productive residents, and this development and
is coupled with constrained behavioural change
financial resources, fast‐growing in government
populations, and aging workers, city
infrastructures, is driving businesses, and
investment in smart sustainable citizens.
city solutions. Smart sustainable
city solutions leverage ICT not only
to deliver higher‐quality citizen
services more efficiently but also to
effect behavioural change in
government workers, city
businesses, and citizens so that
cities can develop more
sustainably.

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