摘要
The concept of Smart Cities is gaining increasingly high importance as a means of making available all the services and applications enabled by ICT to citizens, companies and authorities that are part of a city＇s system. It aims to improve citizens＇ quality Of life and improve the efficiency and quality of the services provided by governing entities and businesses. This perspective requires an integrated vision of a city and of its infi＇astmctures, in all its components, and extends beyond the mere ＇digitalisation＇ of information and communication： it has to incorporate a number of dimensions that are not related to technology, e.g., the social and political ones.
