Modelling conviviality for the e-City Luxembourg
"They can be seen as a local social information infrastructure, providing information over the ‘real’ city to locals and of course to visitors of the real city [14]. The digital city can also be approached as a communication medium, influencing the personal networks of inhabitants of a digital neighborhood [15]. Another view is the digital city as a tool to improve local democracy and participation [9, 16], in fact the basic idea behind the digital city in Amsterdam [17]. Fourth, we can characterize the digital city as a free space to experience and experiment with cyberspace [18]. Finally, the digital city can be seen as a practical resource for the organization of every day life. One can think of local electronic commerce, and the provision of online public services as a support of local economic activities. However, the digital city may also become an experiment with new forms of solving problems and coordinating social life. Where currently most activities are coordinated by the market or by the state, the digital city may become a tool that enables people to do things by mobilizing the available local resources, using existing and emerging social networks."
Excerpt from P. van den Besselaar, I. Melis, and D. Beckers, "Digital Cities: Organization, Content, and Use". T. Ishida, K. Isbister Eds.
Digital Cities: Experiences, Technologies and Future Perspectives, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1765, pp. 18-32, 2000. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.
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