Life is a Journey in Smart and Sustainable Districts

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Graf-Drasch, Valerie ; Meindl, Oliver ; Voucko-Glockner, Hannes:
Life is a Journey in Smart and Sustainable Districts.
In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI). - Nürnberg, Germany , 2022

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Worldwide, cities grapple with the expectation of putting the brakes on climate change. Before acting, smart districts often serve as a testing bed for strategies towards carbon-neutrality. Ifeffective, scale-up agendas at city-level are formulated. Smart districts are touted for their sustainability lever, as their core rationale is encouraging residents to use ‘smart energy technologies’which increase efficiency or integrate renewable energy sources. The primary focus of these districts is on technical implementations of available sustainability servicesinstead of orienting their service-portfolio around citizens. The result is a mismatch of supply and demand of sustainability-inducingservices.We take ina customer journey perspectivewhen searching for literature and conducting qualitative interviews. Results reveal a framework for mapping service touchpoints into citizen journeys. The framework is meant to benefit district planners to tailor their serviceselectionto meet their citizens’ needs andexploit the district’s sustainability potential at the citizen interface.