Purpose: The present thesis addresses how smart city initiatives can positively impact development, with a special emphasis on developing countries in Latin America. Existing definitions and maturity models have a very ...

The city of Rio de Janeiro has the highest proportion of people living in slums in all Brazil, with more than 22% of its inhabitants living in those places . These people suffer from the lack of or limitation in the provision ...

Knowledge and its propagation are unquestionably at the center of most, if not all, discussions on innovation, performance, as well as other elements related to firm success. Although the literature has proposed several ...

The study presents aspects of the traditional advertising, which have had it's dimensions changed with the advent of the Internet. The author intends to demonstrate how the new technologies have affected the way of thinking. ...