E-Governance for Smart Cities [Hardcover]

This book highlights the electronic governance in a smart city through case studies of cities located in many countries. E-Government refers to the use by government agencies of information technologies (such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to transform relations with citizens, businesses, and other arms of government. These technologies can serve a variety of different ends: better delivery of government services to citizens, improved interactions with business and industry, citizen empowerment through access to information, or more efficient government management. The resulting benefits?are less corruption, increased transparency, greater convenience, revenue growth, and/or cost reductions.
The book is divided into three parts.
?E-Governance State of the Art Studies of many cities
?E-Governance Domains Studies
?E-Governance Tools and Issues

?E-Governance for Smart Cities.- E-Governance State of the Art Survey: Stuttgart, Germany.- E-Governance and Smart Cities: Cases of Ahmedabad and? Hyderabad.- E- Governance and its role in infrastructure services of UAE, case study- Dubai.- E-Governance for Public Realm: Around Panniyankara Monorail Station, Kozhikode, Kerala.- Smart Systems and Smart Grids for effective governance of electricity supply in India.- E-Governance for Solar Photo Voltaic Powergrid: Solar City Gandhinagar Gujarat, India.- Can Smart City Be an Inclusive City?Spatial Targeting (SI) and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).- M-Governance: Smart Phone Applications for Smarter Cities- Tapping GPS and NFC Technologies.- Participatory E-Budgeting using GIS based Spatial Decision Support System: Kozhikode Municipal? Corporation.- Smart City E-Governance: Issues? and Future.

Professor T. M. Vinod Kumar has 43 years of professional experience and has specialised in Urban and Regional Planning, Urban and Regional Infrastructure, Urban Enl³g