Positioning of the ICT industry for building smart cities in Brazil: results from a survey with seven giants from the sector
This paper aims to know and to discuss the positioning of the ICT industry in the smartcities scenario in Brazil. It is based on a qualitative research using primary data from asurvey performed with executives from IBM, Cisco, Huawei, Oracle, SAP, Ericsson andMicrosoft; and secondary data from docum...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Tecnologia e Sociedade (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.utfpr:article/8360 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rts/article/view/8360 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | administração; administração pública Cidades inteligentes; Indústria de TIC; TIC para gestão pública; TIC para cidades inteligentes. Smart cities. ICT industry for smart cities. ICT for public management. ICT for smart cities. |
| Sumario: | This paper aims to know and to discuss the positioning of the ICT industry in the smartcities scenario in Brazil. It is based on a qualitative research using primary data from asurvey performed with executives from IBM, Cisco, Huawei, Oracle, SAP, Ericsson andMicrosoft; and secondary data from documents websites of then. The results indicatedthese companies converge on the concept of smart cities and on the possibility ofmaterialization of the concept in any type of city; they agreed that investments in state-ofthe-art technologies to the detriment of technologies that are most needed for publicmanagement do not guarantee the existence of the smart city. Finally, they alsoconverged on the need for training of public agents, the need to engage the population,respect and maintenance of the cultural and historical aspects of the city; the appetite forinnovation and the positive aspects that the involvement of academia and private sectorcan bring success to the public sector. |
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