Diagnosing the voids of knowledge in the transformation process in managing and standardizing smart city development: the case of the government of Indonesia
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2023.1288714
PurposeThis study investigates smart city development projects implemented by the Government of Indonesia (GoI) from 2017 at the regional and municipal levels. Moreover, it provides a critical perspective on the lack of knowledge of the transformation process, substantive knowledge, and the wide-regime-shifting balance of knowledge required to accomplish smart city development. From the project scope perspective, this research elaborates on technical defaults of the regional and municipal GoI’s initiating, constructing, and implementing smart cities.Research methodologyThe authors conducted semi-structured interviews to explore how these project doers operate in each stage of the smart city development, including initiation, work in progress, implementation, and reporting. In (...)