The Use of a Data-Driven Digital Twin of a Smart City: A Case Study of Ålesund, Norway

One objective of smart cities is to produce smart decisions that will address sustainability and climate change through big data and citizen engagement. However, to achieve this, local governments must address two barriers to citizen engagement: concerns about data privacy and the difficulty big data poses to nonexperts. Big data by its nature produces a wide range of varying insights; however, it is difficult for nonexperts to understand the situations these insights describe, much less determine, and communicate priorities and solutions.