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Special Issue on ``Smartness in Governance, Government, Urban Environments, and the Internet of Things'': An Editorial Introduction

Special Issue on ``Smartness in Governance, Government, Urban Environments, and the Internet of... Information Polity 21 (2016) 1–3 1 DOI 10.3233/IP-150377 IOS Press Guest Editorial Special Issue on “Smartness in Governance, Government, Urban Environments, and the Internet of Things”: An Editorial Introduction st Two 21 -century trends appear to feed off each other: the urbanization of the globe and the ubiquitous connectivity of people and things between and across each other. While in 1960 seventy percent of the world population lived in rural and non-urban environments, in 2050 more than seventy percent of the world population are projected to live in urban centers and metropolitan areas. In other words, in less than a century, the human species has not only more than doubled in numbers, but the much larger global population compared with a century ago will live in urban centers of unprecedented population density. The human experience, which until fairly recently was mostly rural, has become urban and in the very near future will become even more urban. While this marks a fundamental and rapid change in the human experience, another groundbreaking change co-occurs, which both feeds on and facilitates the former trend. With the advent of the Internet and via its connected computing and communication devices, humans began to connect http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

Special Issue on ``Smartness in Governance, Government, Urban Environments, and the Internet of Things'': An Editorial Introduction

Scholl, Hans Jochen
Information Polity , Volume 21 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 2016
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10.3233/IP-150377
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Information Polity 21 (2016) 1–3 1 DOI 10.3233/IP-150377 IOS Press Guest Editorial Special Issue on “Smartness in Governance, Government, Urban Environments, and the Internet of Things”: An Editorial Introduction st Two 21 -century trends appear to feed off each other: the urbanization of the globe and the ubiquitous connectivity of people and things between and across each other. While in 1960 seventy percent of the world population lived in rural and non-urban environments, in 2050 more than seventy percent of the world population are projected to live in urban centers and metropolitan areas. In other words, in less than a century, the human species has not only more than doubled in numbers, but the much larger global population compared with a century ago will live in urban centers of unprecedented population density. The human experience, which until fairly recently was mostly rural, has become urban and in the very near future will become even more urban. While this marks a fundamental and rapid change in the human experience, another groundbreaking change co-occurs, which both feeds on and facilitates the former trend. With the advent of the Internet and via its connected computing and communication devices, humans began to connect

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