Citizen participation in building citizen-centric smart cities

@article{Lim2018CitizenPI,
  title={Citizen participation in building citizen-centric smart cities},
  author={Seng Boon Lim and Jalaluddin Abdul Malek and Mohd Yusof Hussain and Zurinah Tahir},
  journal={Malaysian Journal of Society and Space},
  year={2018}
}
Recently, the governors of technology-driven smart cities have been criticised for ignoring their citizens and limiting the role of the general public to being passive users. Even though the goal of realising citizen centricity has been embodied in the visions of most smart cities, it has remained to be a rhetorical notion. This paper was aimed to understand the citizen participation and citizen centricity phenomena in smart cities. The research method of this review paper applied the… 
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