Resumen de Digital cities for development: connecting real, sustainable, smart and digital cities
This thesis addresses on research accomplished and published during the last five years on the state-of-the-art about the development on smart and digital cities.
The world population has been increasing and conglomerating mainly in urban centers and, in order to provide better life quality to citizens, new strategies are being taken under the scope of innovation and technology.
Among its contributions, this thesis focuses on the connection between technologies and social science, one of its aims is to perceive the way citizens are being inserted into this rapidly transformed environment.
Based on operations research techniques, solutions that cover mobility, marketing, governance, privacy, education, citizen's right, among others, are highlighted in the collection of papers presented here.
Cutting-edge concepts of information and communication technologies, internet-of-things, blockchain, smart contracts, internet-of-value, optimization, are introduced, explored and extended, contributing for society to move towards sustainable, efficient and transparent use of technology.
The Chapter “Cities and Technologies” presents a strategic survey on smart cities, searching for challenges for connecting citizens to the emerging infrastructure. The collection of works contributes with an updated view on cities challenges throughout up-to-date bibliometrics and discussions on emerging technologies.
The Chapter “Smart Cities and Operations Research” has its main focus on operations research inspired techniques, which are contributions focused on distinct cities' services such as mobility, energy, optimization of social participation throughout multi-criteria perspectives for decision making process.
The Chapter “Digital Marketing” contributes with a vision about marketing campaigns in modern cities and society. An optimization problem is dealt in order to focus on improving direct marketing campaigns, which can be applied for efficient offer of services on smart cities, respecting citizens privacy and requirements. It also consider those campaigns managed with a smart contract designed on the NEO Blockchain, as well as automatic campaigns management throughout decentralized protocols.
The rich set of references that appear in the bibliography, comprised in the collection of papers presented in this thesis, is an evidence of the good amount of background reading and literature review that has been undertaken.
In summary, this thesis addressed the use of emerging technologies in cities, pointing out challenges and discussing current limitations of the literature and real-world applications. It included discussions about the inclusion of tech in cities' services, presenting solutions that take into consideration strengthening the relationship between citizens and cities.
