Why The City?
One of the challenges for Smart Cities is how to actively involve citizens in the smart functioning of the city. The intelligent algorithms which will control the systems in smart cities will depend a lot on active interactions by the citizens. However, when mass adoption of technology enabled services is difficult even within an enterprise, mass adoption of smart services within an entire city is going to be a big challenge. Historically, the the most expensive failures in egovernance or enterprise software domain have been at the adoption stage, when end users of those ICT services simply “didn’t like it”. (For example: Citizen Cop)
Our solution proposes game design as an approach to motivate, engage and shape citizens’ behavior to maximize the adoption of smart city services.
We shall leverage the best practices of gamification, such as points based incentives, rich graphical experience, leaderboard based competition, exchanging points for real or virtual prices.
