SMART CITY PROJECT ASSESSMENT MODELS: IDENTIFICATION AND INTEGRATION OF URBAN STAKEHOLDERS

Abstract

The global challenges that cities must face in terms of sustainability, efficiency, integration and resilience have found in the Smart City concept a guideline of action as a model for urban development and transformation. The Smart City concept and the assessment models based on it have evolved from a conception focused on the use of technology, to the one that is now generally accepted: holistic, focused on the citizen as demand, using the technologies of information and communication more as a means or catalyst in the transformation process than as a final goal in itself. The most recent models give essential relevance to the alignment between the challenges that cities must face and the projects and initiatives which are implemented within a general urban strategy, considering the urban stakeholders and involving them from the very beginning in the strategy and development of initiatives. This paper establishes the general guidelines for the identification of these urban stakeholders and their integration into assessment models of Smart City projects and initiatives.