Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future by William J. Mitchell (auth.), Toru Ishida, Katherine Isbister
By William J. Mitchell (auth.), Toru Ishida, Katherine Isbister (eds.)
On the way in which in the direction of the data Society, worldwide networks corresponding to the net, including cellular computing, have made wide-area computing over digital groups a truth. electronic urban tasks, with the aim of creating systems to aid group networking, are occurring worldwide.
This is the 1st booklet dedicated to electronic towns. it truly is according to a global symposium held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 1999. The 34 revised complete papers awarded have been rigorously chosen for inclusion within the booklet; they mirror the cutting-edge during this intriguing new box of interdisciplinary examine and improvement. The booklet is split into components on layout and research, electronic urban experiments, neighborhood community experiments, functions, visualization applied sciences, cellular applied sciences, and social interplay and communityware.
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Nl) in the Netherlands was observed in June ’99. It had only 5 discussion groups in its space dedicated to citizens. A look at the ‘politics’ group was not very encouraging. Over the last 365 days, 17 different users had posted only 21 messages. These examples show how negligible public participation of citizens in electronic debates within virtual cities is at the moment. This phenomenon tends also to be part of a vicious circle, in which the decision-makers and the public servants who would be supposed to be important actors in the discussion fail to grasp the real potential of the electronic environment, thus themselves failing to participate.
Finally practical local information is in 45% of the DDS, and in 49% of the ITN sites. • The communication possibilities for are much more developed in the DDS than in ITN: in the DDS, 81% of the sites have email, 12% chat, 19% newsgroups, 35% have forms to reply, and only 15% do not have communication facilities. 6%, 9%, 12% and 43%. Finally, the DDS sites have more often information in foreign languages (mostly English) than ITN sites: 47% vs. 22%. Summarizing, DDS offers more general information than practical information, while for ITN this is the other way around.
Two interviewees mention that this new communicational tool may help isolated people. Another comments that "we were the phone generation" and one Dutch interviewee warns us: "the future generation of illiterates will only watch television"! The analysis of the interviews demonstrates that interviewees are rather positive about their digital city from which they value above all the communicational dimension. The primary role of a digital city should be to help communication among people, second to be a local network and third to provide a free access to new technologies, in other words, to be an electronic local network.