Smart territory analytics: toward a shared vision

Smart Territory Analytics is a very young domain that by a great number of people is expected to support benchmarking of cities’ and territories’ smartness. Analytics, however, is first of all, a route toward awareness but the question is: about what? In other words what does smartness mean? Here, as an example of “wisdom of the crowd” extraction, we report about word frequency analytics applied to open answers given to a questionnaire on Smart Cities. It comes out that the achievement of awareness is a process implying a deeper understanding of the territory and individual perception and, as well, a greater attention to the well being of citizens and the environment they populate, being citizens at the same time the main source and the end-target of the territorial state of flow.