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Item Public Libraries as Catalysts in Local Government-Led Innovation Ecosystems: Enabling Collaborative Innovation, Making Culture, and Entrepreneurship(2025-01-07) Buyannemekh, Battulga; Gasco-Hernandez, Mila; Gil-Garcia, J. RamonAmid rapid urbanization, cities have to reinvent themselves (e.g., become ‘smart’) in response to complex problems, evolving quality of life demands, and a need to spur innovation and entrepreneurship. While prior research supports a holistic view of smart cities stressing various success factors, less is known about the role of community organizations such as public libraries that have been contributing to communities’ smartness. This paper offers evidence about public libraries’ role in and contributions to local innovation ecosystems. Through multiple case studies, we show how public libraries foster open, collaborative innovation and facilitate context-driven entrepreneurship, thus enhancing both individual and collective potential to tackle shared problems. Public libraries also advance knowledge and contribute capacities vis-à-vis the purposeful use of digital technologies to improve socioeconomic welfare in a way that recognizes, engages, and capitalizes on the insights from all community stakeholders on the transformative potential of technologies.Item Right to the Smart City: Evaluating Smart Urban Policies through Lefebvrian Lens(2025-01-07) Domaradzka, Anna; Widla, Lukasz; Wnuk, Anna; Biesaga, Mikolaj; Oleksy, TomaszThis paper aims to understand and empirically measure the wellbeing of urban citizens and their ability to exercise their ‘right to the city’ in the context of smart city development and algorithmic urban governance. It develops and empirically tests the right to the smart city idea grounded in basic research and existing theories. The starting point is the concept of the right to the city as a basket of rights defining the citizenship status of urban residents in the digital era. Our study is based on representative survey data from Singapore and Warsaw, which represent different stages of technological urban development. In the context of growing criticism of smart city idea, we propose using the composite indicators of ‘right to the city index’ and ‘AI acceptance index’ as tools for monitoring a smart urban development from the human-centric perspective.Item Introduction to the Minitrack on Smart and Connected Cities and Communities(2025-01-07) Domaradzka, Anna; Viale Pereira, Gabriela; Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel PedroItem Open Government Data for Citizen Participation: Where is the Added-value?(2025-01-07) Clarinval, Antoine; Crusoe, Jonathan; Simonofski, AnthonyImprovements in citizen participation are among the core benefits often attributed to the publication of Open Government Data (OGD). However, our specific understanding of the range of added value that OGD can bring to citizen participation projects remains limited. In this paper, we employed the Repertory Grid Technique with eight practitioners to gather examples of citizen participation projects utilizing OGD and to understand how OGD adds value to these projects. Through this approach, we identified ten qualities associated with higher OGD added-value and conceptualized six archetypes that describe how OGD can be integrated into citizen participation projects. Our findings enhance existing conceptualizations of OGD use in citizen participation and provide practitioners with a comprehensive and detailed overview of potential OGD applications and key qualities to consider for improving their participation projects.