智慧城市如何改善开 放数据门户：洛杉矶市和新冠病毒的案例研究.docx

PerspectiveEXPERT Perspective EXPERT INSIGHTS ON A TIMELY POLICY ISSUE JARED MONDSCHEIN, SHANNON PRIER, AARON CLARK-GINSBERG, EDWARD PARKER How Smart Cities Could Improve Open Data Portals to Empower Local Residents and Businesses A Case Study of the City of Los Angeles and COVID-19 The global trend toward urbanization, combined with innovations in information and communications technologies (ICTs), has resulted in movements toward revolutionizing local governments through digital transformations of communities to become “smart cities” (Silva et al., 2018). T These smart cities typically seek to connect the physical infrastructure of the city to a broader virtual infrastructure that enables the collection, integration, analysis, and utility of detailed operational data to improve local decisionmaking (Harrison et al., 2010). Smart city initiatives have involved a wide array of projects, includ- ing those focused on mobility, water management, and electricity delivery (Appio, Lima, and Paroutis, 2019). As these developments progress, both urban planners and city leaders have sought to facilitate the inclusion of local community members (Albino, Berardi, and Dangelico, 2015). By providing local citizens with (Anderson et al., 2020; Cheng et al., 2020). Although LA government sources regularly release data for public con- sumption via press releases and news conferences,1 the LA open data portal could, in theory, provide a higher level of access through routine updates of data sets. In principle, smart city data should be useful for understanding local emergencies, particularly compared with traditional means of data collection (Alazawi et al., 2014; Sakhardande, Hanagal, and Kulkarni, 2016). First, smart city data are collected frequently and consistently, meaning that they can address some of the expenses and quality issues that are commonly associated with collect- ing near–real time data. Second, the data sets are broad in scope, so they can be used to un