The influence of context in the implementation of a smart city project: the case of Cidade Inteligente Búzios

The growth of urban population is widely acknowledged to be a central trend that poses challenges for the administration of cities worldwide. In this context, several advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been developed to gradually transform urban centers into smart cit...

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Autores: Brandão, Mariana, Joia, Luiz Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Revista de Administração Pública
Idioma:portugués
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OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/77391
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/77391
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:smart city
actor-network theory
cidade inteligente Búzios
project success
urban development.
teoría actor-red
Cidade Inteligente Búzios
suceso en proyecto
desarrollo urbano.
teoria ator-rede
sucesso em projeto
desenvolvimento urbano.
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Sumario:The growth of urban population is widely acknowledged to be a central trend that poses challenges for the administration of cities worldwide. In this context, several advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been developed to gradually transform urban centers into smart cities. In this article, we seek to contribute to filling a knowledge gap in the literature on smart city — namely the lack of empirical data in works on this subject — by investigating a project aimed at turning the municipality of Búzios in Brazil into a smart city, named Cidade Inteligente Búzios (CIB). Our objective is, thus, to describe and understand the controversial influence of the context in the implementation of the project, which was considered a success for some actors and irrelevant for others, a situation that defies the very concept of success in the implementation of smart cities.