Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview I. Local Government - Local Services and Infrastructure Author(s) Mihaly Lados HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Gyor Hungary Title Smart City Attitudes of Hungarian Cities File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Mihaly Lados Abstract The paper would join the topic of "Local Services and Infrastructure in the smart city” of VIII. Working Group on Local Services and Infrastructure. There is an emerging interest on smart city issues by both scientists and practitioners. More than one hundred definitions were developed by researchers, suppliers (developer companies), policy makers (European Commission, Covenant of Mayors, national governments) and others (experts, non-profit organisations etc.). To think about Smart City approach as a global idea it is clearly includes the following terms: sustainable, inclusive and effective city management by the use of ICT to ensure the well-being and better quality of life for their citizens. When we talk about smart city we are dealing the city as organism, dividing the city into ICT based interconnected subsectors. The details of this classification differ by countries/experts who developed any method to measure the smartness of cities. Cities are in double pressure regarding smart city issues. First of all they would like serve well the needs of local society (voters) but paying attention to global challenges (like climate change), too. On the other side, on daily base dozen of smart city application developers try to sell their products, services to cities. For good decision, cities needs a good planning procedure behind. Nowadays, as same as in many other countries in the World developers provides new smart city apps proposals for Hungarian big cities almost every day. How our cities are prepared to adopt these initiatives? Is there any strategy behind their decisions or there are rather ad-hoc development decisions based on the availability of external – national or EU – funds? The paper identifies the actual attitudes of Hungarian big cities (Budapest and cities with county right) according to smart city approach reflecting to questions on regulatory framework, inclusion of local citizens and scale (size of municipality). Győr, 12 November, 2017 Mihály Lados
