Denis Alcides Rezende

TL;DR: Based on the concepts of connectivity, accessibility, and communicability that originated from the analysis of United Nations documents on the Information Society, the authors analyzed the city of Curitiba, first-ranked in this Index.

TL;DR: In this paper, an artigo discute de forma teorico-conceitual o plano diretor municipal and o planejamento estrategico municipal, instrumentos de planejamamento em uso atualmente, that constituem o que se pode chamar de utopias contemporâneas for a questao urbana brasileira.

TL;DR: Results reveal that Twitter enhances transparency and strengthens bonds between local government and citizens and confirms that information has quality and intelligence to serve the strategic level of government.

TL;DR: The objective is to describe the information and telecommunications project from the planning of a digital city carried out in Vinhedo-SP, Brazil, which was built as a telecommunications infrastructure of the kind of ''open access metropolitan area networks'' which enables the integration of citizens in a single telecommunications environment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the similarities and differences between two different urban worlds in terms of the ability to solve problems, management tools and international aid to cope with local crises, and drew the attention to the outstanding difference between the scenarios working as a reference in looking to the past by these two kinds of cities and by the international political and financial support they receive.