Krzysztof JANC, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Wojciech JURKOWSKI, University of Wroclaw, Poland
The smart approach, whether in the case of cities, rural areas is strongly rooted in the technological aspect - digital technologies, especially the Internet. The Internet is a “nervous system” enabling the functioning of smart cities and regions, responsible for the flow of information. Digital technologies reduce the uneven distribution of development opportunities. However, a good understanding of the spatial aspects of internet performance is required in order to accurately realise smart development idea. Therefore, in our presentation we would like to show possibilities of use crowdsourced data about the internet performance to analyse the spatial basis of smart development at the local scale. To realize this aim an example of an analysis of spatial distribution of internet performance in Poland will be presented. The basic source used in this study is fixed broadband and mobile (cellular) internet performance data provided by Ookla. The data are collected on a crowdsourced basis, from speed tests conducted by users around the world using stationary and mobile devices. Data from crowdsourced tests (consumers’ feedback) are more reliable (if numerous) than those declared by providers, especially in the case of mobile data geographic coverage (Grubesic and Mack, 2015). Our analysis has allowed to verified the usefulness of data from the crowdsourced speed test for spatial analyses on the local scale. The ability to use data that inform about important aspects of internet performance (for example, its symmetry) on a local scale is an invaluable resource in understanding the relationship between the individual categories of areas (for example, the core-peripheries, areas of growth—areas of stagnation, city—rural areas) and correlations between them.
Mots clés : smart development|internet performance|crowdsourced data|local scale
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