Utilizing open data in a cross-border smart city
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Master's thesis
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2021
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Degree programme
Information and Service Management (ISM)
Language
en
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107 + 6
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Abstract
Smart city has been an emerging trend as late as from the 90’s and many modern cities aspire to be smart. For a smart city to be efficient, it needs to gather data about its residents, thus it is paramount that the city administration that aspires to implement smart city services to acknowledge citizens’ preferences and privacy concerns regarding that data collection. Smart city applications will have to work under regulation but also need to seem safe and appealing for citizens. Smart city initiatives often utilize open data generated from different applications and services in the city, and this thesis reviews promising smart city applications powered by open data. I am basing my research on earlier literature about smart cities and provide definitions for smart cities and open data as well as discuss open data enabled services and the enabling technologies of these services. The main contributors for emergence of smart city services are enabling technologies and the services can be divided into subgroups of services, smart people, smart living, smart environment, smart governance, smart economy and smart mobility. The regulatory body referred to in this thesis is the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as the cities used in my thesis, Helsinki and Tallinn are both in the EU. I review the regulatory requirements set by the GDPR for digital smart city applications utilizing open data gathered from citizens. The main areas of GDPR regarding smart city data collection are the principles relating into processing of personal data and the rights of the data subject. I also survey citizens attitudes and preferences regarding data collection for smart city purposes. The findings of the survey suggest that citizens hold more value to their privacy and security than user experience when addressing digital smart city services. The thesis aims to support digital implementation of FinEst-Twins – a smart city initiative between Helsinki and Tallinn. FinEst-Twins is the first global cross-border smart city Center of Excellence and it focuses on mobility, energy, built environment, governance, and urban analytics & data.Description
Thesis advisor
Ghanbari, HadiRossi, Matti
Keywords
smart city, open data, digital services, privacy, information security
Other note
This thesis has been partly supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, under Grant Agreement No. 856602.