Methodology of development of information support to urban sustainability on a local government level in transitional countries – Experiences of Serbia
Апстракт
The experiences of cities around the world underline the fact that the GIS based information systems to support sustainable urban development represent a complex problem for local government, because it tackles not only the issues of technology, but also of institutional, organizational, regulatory and normative framework of information activities at the local level. The experiences of some local governments in Serbia underline as a problem the gap between local/national information culture and globally available technology solutions. Lack of understanding, knowledge and skills to plan and manage the development of information system activities generates misbalance between investment, real needs and cognitive capacities of the community. For this kind of unstructured management problem organizational studies researchers recommend the Soft systems methodology (SSM) that treats the notion of information support as an epistemological rather than ontological entity. This article provides a...n overview of the experimental results in the application of the SSM in the development of pilot Territorial Information Systems (TIS) in six municipalities in Serbia. The results show that this methodology enables proactive efforts of local government structures, foster achievement of concrete practical results and ensures sustainability and long term progress of the process of social transformation of information activities at the local level.
Кључне речи:
Development of information support to urban sustainability / Local governance / Soft systems methodology (SSM) / Territorial information systems (TIS)Извор:
International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Manage, 2014, 1, 2, 683-690Издавач:
- International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference
Институција/група
Arhitektonski fakultetTY - CONF AU - Lalović, Ksenija PY - 2014 UR - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/165 AB - The experiences of cities around the world underline the fact that the GIS based information systems to support sustainable urban development represent a complex problem for local government, because it tackles not only the issues of technology, but also of institutional, organizational, regulatory and normative framework of information activities at the local level. The experiences of some local governments in Serbia underline as a problem the gap between local/national information culture and globally available technology solutions. Lack of understanding, knowledge and skills to plan and manage the development of information system activities generates misbalance between investment, real needs and cognitive capacities of the community. For this kind of unstructured management problem organizational studies researchers recommend the Soft systems methodology (SSM) that treats the notion of information support as an epistemological rather than ontological entity. This article provides an overview of the experimental results in the application of the SSM in the development of pilot Territorial Information Systems (TIS) in six municipalities in Serbia. The results show that this methodology enables proactive efforts of local government structures, foster achievement of concrete practical results and ensures sustainability and long term progress of the process of social transformation of information activities at the local level. PB - International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference C3 - International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Manage T1 - Methodology of development of information support to urban sustainability on a local government level in transitional countries – Experiences of Serbia VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 683 EP - 690 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_165 ER -
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Lalović, K.. (2014). Methodology of development of information support to urban sustainability on a local government level in transitional countries – Experiences of Serbia. in International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Manage International Multidisciplinary Scientific Geoconference., 1(2), 683-690. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_165
Lalović K. Methodology of development of information support to urban sustainability on a local government level in transitional countries – Experiences of Serbia. in International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Manage. 2014;1(2):683-690. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_165 .
Lalović, Ksenija, "Methodology of development of information support to urban sustainability on a local government level in transitional countries – Experiences of Serbia" in International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference Surveying Geology and Mining Ecology Manage, 1, no. 2 (2014):683-690, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_raf_165 .