Outputs (3)

Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective (2025)
Journal Article
Beckers, D., & Mora, L. (online). Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective. Journal of Urban Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/10630732.2025.2461983

This commentary explores the potential of strengthening smart city development (SCD) governance theory through a more meaningful integration of innovation management studies. We highlight the limited theoretical framework in SCD governance and show h... Read More about Overcoming the Smart City Governance Challenge: An Innovation Management Perspective.

Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments (2023)
Report
Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., & Tonnarelli, F. (2023). Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

This playbook and its recommendations are primarily aimed at municipal governments and their political leaders, local administrators, and public officials who are involved in smart city initiatives. The recommendations, which are delineated in the su... Read More about Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments.

Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices (2022)
Report
Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., & Tonnarelli, F. (2022). Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices. Nairobi: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Through smart city initiatives, digital technologies are increasingly applied in cities to modernize city operations and transform service delivery. The ongoing digital transformation provides new opportunities but also creates challenges, and it is... Read More about Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices.