Digitalization of Municipalities Through Ecosystem Cooperation

TARGET GROUP: MUNICIPALITIES

OBJECTIVES

·        To identify relevant ecosystem actors and develop business opportunities by considering how the cooperation with the municipal systems can take place.

SUMMARY

The IoT is not only for the industry to leverage, and the digitalization of municipalities is more relevant than ever. Several Norwegian municipalities have started developing smart city programs while others have not yet formalized the digitalization strategy. Certain municipalities have also been internationally recognized in a smart city context. Bergen has been awarded for the development of a smart vacuum waste collection solution, by the Smart City Expo World Congress (2018). In a municipal context, there are many actors with different responsibilities and expectations. Cooperation towards digitalization is important in order for future projects to be environmentally friendly and globally profitable. Network thinking is important in order to identify and define new business opportunities. Different theories and variations of renowned frameworks such as the quintuple helix model by Carayannis (2019) have become popular among scholars in order to understand how the cooperation among different actors takes place. This has led to new frameworks being developed to understand the dynamics and complexity of digitalization for both private firms and the public sector. Existing IoT research is often focused on the technological requirements for companies to construct information-sharing systems, rather than the reasons why companies should participate in the sharing of information on materials.

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https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu