The Smart City Framework proposed in this paper describes a process that will help key stakeholders and city/community participants 1) understand how cities operate, 2) define city objectives and stakeholder roles, and 3) understand the role of ICT within physical city assets.
The "Cintel Smart-City Index" -CSI proposed by Cintel allows to characterize the state of the cities in its process of becoming Smart Cities; Understood as the one characterized by the intensive use of ICT in the creation and improvement of the systems that make up the city
Since 2007, CINTEL has included in its lines of research, the study of alternatives of city development such as the Ubiquitous Cities2 and Global Cities3, as well as the study of ICT solutions generated for this type of cities such as Cloud Computing4 and Intelligent Systems of Transport5, concepts strongly related to Intelligent Cities. At present, CINTEL's research agenda is the construction of an Intelligent Cities development model as a tool for the design of national and regional policies.
American cities are on the brink of the most significant change in local and state governance since the reforms that dismantled Tammany Hall 125 years ago. Across a wide range of political convictions and practical expertise, innovators—Republicans and Democrats, technocrats and citizen activists businesses and nonprofit organizations, street-level bureaucrats and their clients—together are revolutionizing local government.
