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The paper describes a scientific study on the adaptation of smart city technologies in Saint Petersburg. There have been several attempts to implement the smart city concept but the adaptive capacity and the demand for new technologies by citizens remain underexplored. The research was conducted using a socio-technical approach according to which the impact of technology on society and the formation of technology by society are parallel processes. As a place for research approbation the pilot region St. Petersburg was selected. By examining a survey of city residents, this paper sheds light on an array of perceptions citizens have regarding smart cities, readiness to use new technologies and trust in the opportunity to participate in city management. The research results suggest a high level of information technologies usage and existence of the positive experience in obtaining online services. At the same time almost 1/3 of respondents didn’t want to have any experience in electronic interactions with the authorities or even personal communications. The level of smart city awareness reached 11% among those respondents who clearly understood what it is and have any ideas of its implementation in Saint Petersburg. Almost 46% of the interviewed citizens could not demonstrate any knowledge on smart city concept or projects. The most frequent users of e-participation portals among the respondents from St. Petersburg are citizens aged 26–35 years. At the same time, their evaluations of such experience as positive or negative are divided almost equally. The obtained results could be used to develop recommendations for the optimal implementation of the “smart city” concept (in cooperation with the project office “Smart City of St. Petersburg” under the Administration of St. Petersburg).
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The study was performed with financial support by the grant from the Russian Science Foundation (project № 17-78-10079): “Research on adaptation models of the Smart City Concept in the conditions of modern Russian Society”.
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Vidiasova, L., Tensina, I., Vidiasov, E. (2019). Adaptation of Smart City Technologies in Saint Petersburg: A Survey. In: Alexandrov, D., Boukhanovsky, A., Chugunov, A., Kabanov, Y., Koltsova, O., Musabirov, I. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1038. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5_16
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