Sustainable urban digital innovation: A socio-technical competency-based approach to evaluation

IF 10.5 1区工程技术 Q1 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Sustainable Cities and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI:10.1016/j.scs.2024.105946

Ahmad Helmi , Viviana Bastidas , Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong , Jennifer Schooling

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Abstract

This study explores the leadership competencies required in practice by city planners and managers in smart city projects focusing on environmental urban sustainability. Although the literature notes that urban technologies and their capabilities can help address sustainability challenges in cities, there is a lack of studies exploring the competency requirements necessary to foster leadership capacity. This paper identifies leadership competencies within four real-world case studies in the urban built environment, guided by a socio-technical competency framework (DC2-CF). The selected case studies represent a diverse set of city planning purposes, geographic regions, various levels of spatial scale, and socio-technical elements of digital innovation. In these case studies, city managers exhibit specific competencies to develop digital innovation projects that uphold and advance urban sustainability. The study demonstrates the relevance and practical application of DC2-CF as a valuable tool to identify competency needs for local public, private, and community stakeholders throughout diverse stages of the urban digital innovation process. The findings suggest the complex relationship between competencies and project delivery, stressing variations in how they are utilised across various projects. Drawing from these key results, this paper provides practical recommendations for city professionals, guiding them in leading climate-friendly and sustainable urban digital innovation.

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可持续的城市数字创新：基于社会技术能力的评估方法

本研究探讨了以城市环境可持续性为重点的智慧城市项目中，城市规划者和管理者在实践中需要具备的领导能力。尽管文献指出城市技术及其能力有助于应对城市的可持续发展挑战，但缺乏对培养领导能力所需的能力要求进行探讨的研究。本文以社会技术能力框架（DC2-CF）为指导，在城市建筑环境的四个实际案例研究中确定了领导能力。所选案例研究代表了不同的城市规划目的、地理区域、不同层次的空间尺度以及数字创新的社会技术要素。在这些案例研究中，城市管理者展示了开发数字创新项目的特定能力，以维护和推进城市的可持续发展。这项研究表明，DC2-CF 作为一种有价值的工具，可以在城市数字创新过程的各个阶段确定当地公共、私人和社区利益相关者的能力需求，具有现实意义和实际应用价值。研究结果表明了能力与项目交付之间的复杂关系，并强调了不同项目在利用能力方面的差异。根据这些关键结果，本文为城市专业人员提供了实用建议，指导他们引领气候友好型和可持续城市数字化创新。

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Sustainable Cities and Society Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

22.00

自引率

13.70%

发文量

810

审稿时长

27 days

期刊介绍： Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including: 1. Smart cities and resilient environments; 2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management; 3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management); 4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities; 5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments; 6. Green infrastructure and BMPs; 7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management; 8. Urban agriculture and forestry; 9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure; 10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy; 11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities; 12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities; 13. Health monitoring and improvement; 14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies; 15. Smart city governance; 16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society; 17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies; 18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems. 19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management; 20. Waste reduction and recycling; 21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling; 22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;