articleFinancial InnovationDec 1, 2016DIAMOND OA

Blockchain-based sharing services: What blockchain technology can contribute to smart cities

Nanjing University · University of Science and Technology of China

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Abstract

The notion of smart city has grown popular over the past few years. It embraces several dimensions depending on the meaning of the word “smart” and benefits from innovative applications of new kinds of information and communications technology to support communal sharing. By relying on prior literature, this paper proposes a conceptual framework with three dimensions: (1) human, (2) technology, and (3) organization, and explores a set of fundamental factors that make a city smart from a sharing economy perspective. Using this triangle framework, we discuss what emerging blockchain technology may contribute to these factors and how its elements can help smart cities develop sharing services. This study…

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Keywords
  • Blockchain
  • Conceptual framework
  • Meaning (existential)
  • Sharing economy
  • Perspective (graphical)
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • Smart city
  • Computer science
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Sustainable cities and communities
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