1153 | 134 | Urban geographical patterns of the relationship between mobile communication, social networks and economic development in Hungary

Nowadays the engines of national economies are urban economies whose development is increasingly determined by creative economy, digital solutions, and innovation. In the development of cities (especially of smart cities), digital information and communication technologies have a decisive role. The basic question of the presentation to be answered is to what extent do digitalization and smart solutions contribute to increasing the competitiveness of Hungarian cities and what geographical patterns can be drawn up? Using these big data sets, we will explore the geographical characteristics and the territorial patterns of digitalization, including cell phone usage, and explore the characteristics of mobile usage flow. In so doing, we determine digital nodes (key mobility patterns and flows) based on mobile cell information and we explore the spatial and social characteristics of mobile phone usage. We will attempt to highlight the city network nodes and will provide a ranking list for cities. Using geocoded inbound and outbound call records we outline the connectedness of geographical units. Using the large scale telecommunication data we will define the innovation and knowledge transfer network position of Hungarian towns based on their centrality/periphery. In addition, the database will allow us to explore the demographic and technological conditions of mobile usage, whereby we will draw the social and territorial characteristics of mobile usage of the X, Y and Z generations.

Tamás Egedy
Budapest Business School – University of Applied Sciences; Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences

ID Abstract: 134

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