The following offers an overview of what it means for cities to be "smart." It draws the supporting definitions and critical insights into smart cities from a series of papers presented at the 2009 Trans-national Conference on Creating Smart(er) Cities. What the papers all have in common is their desire to overcome the all too often self-congratulatory nature of the claims cities make to be smart and their over-reliance on a distinctively entrepreneurial route to smart cities. Individually, they serve to highlight the major challenges cities face in their drive to become smart. Collectively they begin to uncover what it means for cities to be smart. Together the papers offer an alternative route to smart cities laid down by those advocating a more neo-liberal roadmap, rooted in a critically aware knowledge-base and more realistic understanding of what it means for cities to be smart(er).

The paper examines the architecture and services of the e-learning platform and describes how the knowledge management system designed for IntelCities is supported by the IP’s digital library. It suggests the e-Learning platform, knowledge management system and digital library developed under the IP provides the intelligence cities need to integrate them as a platform of semantically-rich e-Governance services. That is to say, an integrated platform of semantically rich e-Governance services with the intelligence which cities need to meet the expectations citizens have about the quality of such electronically enhanced products. The paper begins by outlining the integrated model of electronically enhanced governance (eGov) services adopted to represent the front-end, middleware and back-office functions of the IntelCities’ e-Learning, knowledge management (KM) and digital library. Having done this, the paper shall report on the search for an intelligent solution to the IP’s learning needs, knowledge transfer and capacity building requirements. It shall then go on to discuss the information technology (IT) underlying the solution adopted by the IP to integrate the electronically enhanced eGov services hosted on the eCity platform with the legacy systems operated by the public administrations involved in the project. From here the discussion shall then go on to examine how the e-Learning platform, KM system and digital library developed by the IP as back-office functions have been integrated into the IntelCities middleware and delivered as frontend services to citizens.

The following examination goes against the current trend in policy on urban regeneration partnerships by relaxing the assumption that they represent virtuous circles of mutually reinforcing actions...

The paper examines the IntelCities Community of Practice (CoP) supporting the development of the organisation's e-Learning platform, knowledge management system (KMS) and digital library for eGovernment services. It begins by outlining the IntelCities CoP and setting Out the integrated model of electronically enhanced government (eGov) services needed to meet the front-end, middleware and back-office requirements of the organisation's e-Learning platform, KMS and digital library. The paper goes on to examine the information technology (IT) adopted by the CoP to develop the IntelCities e-Learning platform, KMS and digital library as a pool of semantically-rich and knowledge intensive eGov services supporting the consultation and deliberation of the organisation's socially-inclusive and participatory urban regeneration programmes.

This paper presents the e-learning platform. knowledge management system & digital library developed for the IntelCities IP. It examines the e-learning platform architecture and services and describes how the knowledge management system designed for IntelCities is supported by the I P's digital library. It suggests the e-Learning platform, knowledge management system and digital library developed under the IP, provides the intelligence cities need to integrate them as a platform of semantically-rich eGovernance services. That is to say, as an integrated platform of semantically-rich eGovernance services, with the intelligence cities need to meet citizens expectations about the quality of products available by such means.