Building Urban Competitiveness With Information And Communication Technology

Under the trend of economic globalization and global information，theboundaries between nations, countries and the domestic inter-city and city to city,are becoming increasingly blurred. Besides, the city as the center of political，economic and cultural, the importance of the city is increasingly evident. Sincethe1980s, cities and urban competitiveness has become a hot issue of globalconcern. At home and abroad, urban decision-makers and scholars of economics,urban planning, geography and management have paid extensive attention andresearch. Although scholars have yielded fruitful results, they have not yetformed a mature theoretical system.Recently, the new concepts of information city、techno polis、 digital cityor virtual city spring up, many city governments recognize that information andcommunication technology provides the material basis for urban developmentand plays a key role in the upgrading of urban competitiveness. How to improvethe urban competitiveness has become an important subject for the government,especially the local government. Enhancing urban competitiveness needsacademia to pay more attention on in-depth study.This paper attempts to study from the perspective of building urbancompetitiveness with information and communication technology. This papercontains the following six parts. The first part，the practical motivations caused by urban competitiveness.This section contains two parts: the economic globalization and globalinformation. This part mainly describes the impact of economic globalizationand global information on the urban competitiveness.The second part, the connotation of urban competitiveness and itsinfluencing factors. This section explains the connotation of urbancompetitiveness; Then, this part introduces and analyzes the influencing factorsof urban competitiveness, which were studied by the academics and researchinstitutions, at home and abroad.The third part, the impact of ICT on urban competitiveness. This partexplains: the role of ICT in the process of enhancing urban competitiveness; therole of ICT on social information environment; The role of ICT on theintegration of information resources and the construction of soft environment ofthe city.The fourth part, building urban competitive environment with ICT. Thispart contains: building urban infrastructure information environment with ICT,building the public service environment with ICT, building the public policyenvironment with ICT and building the city financial environment with ICT.The fifth part, building enterprise competitiveness with ICT. This part usestheory and case to build enterprise competitiveness with ICT.The sixth part, Case: Taipei: New Network Capital, Smart City. Thissection explains the origin and architecture of the case, and analyzes the contentand achievements of the case.