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The Transparent Smart City

How City Councils and City Administrations Can Apply Smart Technology for Increased Transparency—With Case Evidence from Norway

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Abstract

Transparency is seen as one important property of open government. The growing importance of government transparency is shown through legislation being passed by most democratic countries during the last few decades. Transparency is based on legislation, regulations and other policy documents. Information and communication technology can help improving the transparency of political decision-making. In smart cities, technology can support transparency in a number of ways, ranging from making documents available online to transparency in the decision-making process. The purpose of this chapter is to provide government officials and other interested parties with an overview of the technologies that are available for transparency in smart cities, and to present lessons learned from cases the authors have been involved in. These lessons can be valuable for decision-makers working towards smart city developments.

This work was partially supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, contract type “small size bilateral cooperation projects”, “Scholarships and inter-institutional cooperation” program—EEA Financial Mechanism 2009–2014, Project Number RO15-0059 “Public Sector Renewal Through ICT, A Life-long Learning Approach”.

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    http://data.norge.no/app.

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    http://www.theguardian.com/data.

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    http://www.journalism.org/.

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    https://www.holderdeord.no/.

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    http://houstonhackathon.com/.

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Johannessen, M.R., Berntzen, L. (2018). The Transparent Smart City. In: Rodríguez Bolívar, M. (eds) Smart Technologies for Smart Governments. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58577-2_5

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