Iniciativas de projetos para cidade inteligente baseada em tecnologia da informação e comunicação: práticas em áreas urbanas sob o prisma da sustentabilidade

Abstract

The study proposed to investigate the relationship of the Smart City project initiatives based on ICTs with the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line. The objective is to aim how Smart City projects based on Information and Communication Technologies, contemplate the three dimensions of sustainability “Social, Economic and Environmental”, of the Triple Bottom Line. Point out if there are indicators for each dimension, whether research and development in the field of each dimension in the city, identify the views of different stakeholders in ICT projects in the city. The research has a qualitative approach and an exploratory objective, contemplated by means of actors involved in projects related to smart cities and ICTs, which consider the three dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line. The information was collected through semi-structured interviews with the participants, non-participant observation and documentary research of the projects. To compile the data and organize the information, NVivo® 12 data processing software was used to compile the data and organize the information and coding, the content analysis technique was used, which include the categorization and triangulation of the information. The results showed that the development of the projects was motivated by technological, economic, social and environmental issues arising from the demands of the public administration and private organizations, the relations between these organizations took place through cooperation. The projects had professional and personal motivations on the part of the collaborators, the investments were of time and money and the management was done in a more informal way. The economic dimension was included in the projects and presented economic development relations for the citizen and the city. This dimension presented three economic indicators: new companies, research grants and jobs. With regard to the social dimension, she obtained relations with the projects in the matter of health and education, providing an improvement to the welfare of the citizen, as that of the city with regard to the indicators. On the environmental dimension, study obtained a relationship with the projects, the dimension that obtained the most environmental indicators such as: paper reuse, energy reuse, water quality, plastic reduction, paper reduction and carbon emission. Data and findings in this study, contribute to the research fields of smart cities based on ICTs and sustainability practices in a city. The projects and dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line interact, ICTs would be a fourth dimension for application in a smart city.