Shane Mcloughlin

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Autonomous Vehicles (AV) are expected to have a revolutionary impact on future Society, forming an integral component of future Smart Cities & regions. ‘Impacts’ range from changes in mobility, environment, planning, infrastructure, employment, leisure time to disruptive business models etc. Designing user centred mobility experiences for citizens...

Connecting the dots: Young People, Social Inclusion and digitalisation - Rapporteur Report

Although Social Networking Sites (SNS) offer numerous affordances in displacing the barriers of time and space for empowering rural citizens to maintain and increase their social capital, the degree to which these affordances diminish the relative significance of face to face and mediated communication is unclear. This paper examines the impact of...

The institutionalisation of Smart City Functions (SCF) within local authorities creates significant IT Governance (ITG) challenges, including the need to foster a triadic alignment between the overall organization, the IT function and the SCF. Building on existing literature on ITG, smart cities, and the emerging conversation on Adaptive Governance...

Knowledge Management (KM) can reflect an aspirational vision of how human knowledge, identity, and technology should interact. As innovations emerge, our view and expectations of the future evolve. Innovation is part of the KM process and requires the ability to imagine these mutable futures before they materialise. The imagined worlds of Science F...

Diffusion of new technology can be approached as a good marriage between business model innovation and technological innovation. With maturing and converging technological innovations ranging from Internet-of-Things, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain to digital platforms comes a fundamental shift in how companies can do business and what can be o...

Curriculum Vitae for Shane McLoughlin

The growing challenges of urban population, congestion, consumption and pollution, prompt cities to respond with policies that progress towards Urban Sustainability. Increasingly, Urban Experimentation (UX) engaging diverse stakeholders for local innovations, is viewed an enabler of iterative progress. Yet, despite various 'smart city' initiatives,...

As our dependency on ever-more complex, opaque, and ubiquitous information and communication technologies (ICTs) increases, ethical concerns about the development of those technologies are also rising. One approach to mitigate these concerns is to improve the maturity of the ICT profession through codification of its knowledge base and professional...

This research considers the creation of resilient organizational models of urban governance to foster urban sustainability. Building on large-scale urban experimentation initiatives, we identify relevant factors in establishing urban experimentation with the help of digital platforms as a means to support such resilient organizational models. Our f...

Despite immense efforts to realize diverse visions of the 'smart city,' municipalities still face manifold uncertainties of how governance and the tools of governance can best support public and regional value creation for achieving urban sustainability. To this end, Urban Living Labs have become a known enabling mechanism. In this paper, we extend...

Governments’ objective to transition to “smart cities” heralds new possibilities for urban data business models to sustain and scale urban data-driven solutions that address pressing city challenges and digital transformation imperatives. Urban data business models are not well understood due to such factors as the maturity of the market and limite...

This study investigates the evolving nature of causal mechanisms driving the evolution of a digital platform. By drawing from a rich dataset representing the evolution of a thriving FINTECH platform (i.e. HP-EFS) over a period of 7 years, we propose to, a) identify the causal mechanisms responsible for its evolution, and b) further understand the d...

This study investigates the evolving nature of causal mechanisms driving the evolution of a digital platform. By drawing from a rich dataset representing the evolution of a thriving FINTECH platform (i.e. HP-EFS) over a period of 7 years, we propose to a) identify the causal mechanisms responsible for its evolution, and b) further understand the dy...

Ethical concerns about the development and ubiquity of ICT (Information and communications technology) are becoming heightened as awareness of our increased dependency, though corresponding lack of understanding and transparency of new technologies such as IoT and AI unfold. One way of tackling this is to increase professionalism within ICT, and Bo...

Purpose Academic industry collaborations (AIC) are increasingly seen as a key part of national innovation policies as an approach to creating and exploiting knowledge. They, however, present a complex challenge in terms of knowledge management. This is partly due to the wide range of stakeholders, the input of government policy, and also the diffe...

Adoption of digital platform innovations afford a changing nature of work, from mobile computing platforms (e.g. Apple) enabling 24/7 work connectivity, to labour marketplace platforms (e.g. Uber) enabling precarious work arrangements. Recently, organisations are adopting/investigating spatial computing platforms (e.g. Autodesk, Toyota, BNP Paribas...

In the paradigm of the Smart City, cities are embracing new digital technologies and data innovation to redefine their relationship to citizens and enterprise. Increasingly, cities are developing visions, strategies, and related digital masterplans and action groups with which to coordinate these efforts. The European Horizon 2020 funded OrganiCity...

Within many conceptions of the future 'smart city' as a response to pressing city challenges and digital transformation imperatives, is the gradually advancing paradigm transition from data informed urbanism to data driven urbanism in the shaping and producing of our cities. This transition necessitates our casting a critical lens on the resulting...

Governments' objective to transition to 'Smart Cities' heralds new possibilities for Urban Data Business Models (UDBM) to sustain and scale urban data driven solutions that address pressing city challenges and digital transformation imperatives. Urban data business models are not well understood due to such factors as the maturity of the market and...

In the paradigm of the Smart City, cities are embracing new digital technologies and data innovation to redefine their relationship to citizens and enterprise. Increasingly, cities are developing visions, strategies, related digital masterplans and action groups / organisations with which to coordinate these efforts. The European Horizon 2020 funde...

Governments' objective to transition to 'Smart Cities' heralds new possibilities for urban data business models to address pressing city challenges and digital transformation imperatives. Urban data business models are not well understood due to such factors as the maturity of the market and limited available research within this domain. Understand...

The digital transformation of society in the 21st century presents tremendous opportunities and challenges to be agreed upon and bridged by the field of youth. This reflection paper seeks to explore our understanding of social inclusion, the opportunities and challenges for the social inclusion of young people in the digital age, as well as the opp...

Executive summary The symposium Connecting the dots: young people, social inclusion and digitalisation was an initiative of the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth (hereinafter, the EU-CoE youth partnership) and marked its 20th anniversary. The symposium took place in Tallinn on 26-28 June 2...

This research note proposes the 'Thriving Smart City' as an approach to reframe thinking along a more ecological view of the smart city. We discuss urban data focused solution development and co-creation approaches to addressing the Smart City imperative in context of the EU H2020 Organicity Project. Organicity is a funding and support mechanism fo...

The objective of this study is to understand how Living Lab(s) (LL) as a concept and research approach has developed, proliferated and influenced scholarly research to date. The goal is in assisting both the LL and Action Design Research (ADR) communities in advancing both fields by establishing understanding, commonalities and challenges in advanc...

In recent years, Living Labs (LLs) are emerging as relevant design methodologies among IS researchers. Prior research leveraged Action Design Research (ADR) to position LLs within this discipline. Through a systematic literature review, this paper proposes the positioning of LLs’ methodologies within ADR. Based on preliminary findings of this study...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the intersection of purposive everyday life information seeking (ELIS), social life and Internet technology in a rural Irish community. The thesis makes several unique contributions to ELIS research in terms of understanding personal, interpersonal and socio/environmental factors and constraints for rural citize...

The aim of this thesis is to examine the intersection of purposive everyday life information seeking (ELIS), social life and Internet technology in a rural Irish community. The thesis makes several unique contributions to ELIS research in terms of understanding personal, interpersonal and socio/environmental factors and constraints for rural citize...

This paper provides a discussion and analysis of methodological issues encountered during a scholarly impact and bibliometric study within the field of Computer Science (TRECVid Text Retrieval and Evaluation Conference, Video Retrieval Evaluation). The purpose of this paper is to provide a reflection and analysis of the methods used to provide usef...