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On a new order of separation in global smart cities: the configuration of spatial morphology in relation to social segregation – and the underlying technologies and applications.

An Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on ”Smart, Sustainable and Fair Cities”, Geography Research Forum (GRF), Vol 40, No 1.

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Israeli Perceptions of Voluntary Contact Tracing Applications vs. Mandatory General Secret Service Surveillance during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

How do we judge disinformation when bias spreads across the globe so quickly? Our research explores AI together with human judgment to combat disinformation, in order to strengthen social resilience.

In a new economy of platforms which are ubiquitous, embedded, pervasive and subsidized, the digital is augmented in the physical world. But little attention is paid to the generative mechanisms along the evolution of the digital infrastructures. 

Open mobility data can be of great value for transportation sustainability and equality. However, municipalities and governments worldwide create partnerships with new service providers such as Uber, Lyft, Bird, Via and the like, often without guarantee of access to their own citizens’ data. 

Claiming for open mobility data is a step towards integrating not only the silos into a holistic view but also the many systems and service providers into a principal-agent problem of collective action.

Nanotechnology is of increasing significance. Curation of nanomaterial data into electronic databases offers opportunities to better understand and predict nanomaterials’ behaviour. This supports innovation in, and regulation of, nanotechnology. [...] The current article addresses how to assess the completeness and quality of (curated) nanomaterial data.

Main aspects are: minimum information checklists, toxicology data quality schemes and computational approaches that facilitate evaluation of the completeness and quality of (curated) data.

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E-government as a tool in the social discourse:

A comparison of measurement methodologies.

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This study builds on the notion that the mediating interfaces of information systems (IS) reflect human relationships that can be captured through evaluation criteria of IS. By observing the evolution of e-government evaluation indexes we reveal the different contexts and values that were considered and made important over the years (2000-2010).

What values the evaluation indexes (the artifact of concern) symbolize;

How are these indexes made, by whom, and why these values.

How to evaluate trust building as the goal of e-government, rather than looking for the best predictors of e-government adoption.

Considering trust as a major value that organisations wish to achieve, the impact of service quality on trust building is at the focus of this study: What are the system features that constitute trust in the organisation? To what extent would each feature explain trust building?

In a modified version of ESQUAL, the service measures were turned into indicators of trust, in a formative model.

The findings (n=395) support the viability of the model.

The integration of information from multiple sources creates new valuable information that serves the public interest economically, socially, and environmentally. Land and housing are among the most expensive assets for citizens and governments. This paper examines the access to planning and real estate data. Nevertheless, data were not available. Examination has detected a variety of barriers that set strict limits on the collection and use of data that should be free. 

If the public sector prevents public participation, the public could be the active producer of data.

A geographical-interfaced IS was developed in order to prove the technological feasibility of a collaborative system that improves transparency and fair access to information.