Title
Social Media in Smart Cities: An Exploratory Research in Mexican Municipalities
Abstract
Social media tools have been the main tool in many municipal portals. Municipalities have used Twitter and Facebook platforms to improve communication and speed services provisions as an initial step to become a smart city. The purpose of this research is to explore such goals in eight Mexican municipalities of the Central State of Mexico. Through a mixed research - qualitative and quantitative - data collection of the KLOUT score and interviews of community managers, we explored this social media approach and the link with the smart city impact. We found that most municipalities are using these tools without a strategy or plan to become a smart city. Some of them - Tlalnepanta and Metepec - have an important strategy and the main goal of using technology is to improve their citizen relationship and inside process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/HICSS.2015.284
System Sciences
Keywords
Field
DocType
government data processing,local government,smart cities,social networking (online),facebook platform,klout score,metepec,mexican municipalities,tlalnepanta,twitter platform,citizen relationship,municipal portals,social media tools,mexico,countys,facebook,metrics,municipalities,social media,twitter,government,media,internet
Data collection,Social media,Computer science,Public relations,Knowledge management,Smart city,Exploratory research,Government,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1605
2
0.36
References 
Authors
19
5