Towards a Green Digital Currency for Smart Communities: An AI-Powered Ecosystem for Citizen Green Stewardship

Amira Kerkad, Rabah Gouri

2025

Abstract

This paper proposes a new ecosystem vision designed to measure and incentivize citizen and corporate engagement in environmental stewardship through circular economy (CE). The ecosystem uses a gamified platform where participants earn digital points for performing two types of operations: (1) recycling matters and (2) reusing items, within smart communities. We propose to consider these points as a new global digital currency redeemable for rewards and services offered by participating businesses worldwide. The businesses are mainly the polluters that aim to have green advertisement and engagement in the "polluter pays" principle. Consequently, these businesses will benefit simultaneously from green advertising and tax reductions. A suite of digital services and AI-powered tools are used to optimize operations and generate valuable data for improving both urban and rural sustainability initiatives. By making this new currency, we can assess environmental engagement, motivate citizens to adhere into CE, and impose hierarchical participation in sustainable practices. This paper outlines the ecosystem's components, discusses the feasibility of our proposal, and explores its potential benefits and challenges for various stakeholders.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kerkad A. and Gouri R. (2025). Towards a Green Digital Currency for Smart Communities: An AI-Powered Ecosystem for Citizen Green Stewardship. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS; ISBN 978-989-758-751-1, SciTePress, pages 139-146. DOI: 10.5220/0013425800003953

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens25,
author={Amira Kerkad and Rabah Gouri},
title={Towards a Green Digital Currency for Smart Communities: An AI-Powered Ecosystem for Citizen Green Stewardship},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS},
year={2025},
pages={139-146},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013425800003953},
isbn={978-989-758-751-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS
TI - Towards a Green Digital Currency for Smart Communities: An AI-Powered Ecosystem for Citizen Green Stewardship
SN - 978-989-758-751-1
AU - Kerkad A.
AU - Gouri R.
PY - 2025
SP - 139
EP - 146
DO - 10.5220/0013425800003953
PB - SciTePress