Smart Cities Index Report 2022
The Smart Cities Index Report 2022 describes comprehensively the challenges, good practices, and enablers in front of the stakeholders who build, manage and develop our modern living spaces. It explores the challenges, good practices, and measurements among 31 cities, 1489 applications and services, 514 infrastructure services, 1088 projects, and 206 living labs globally.
The main findings of the survey confirm the SMACITE assumptions about the need of active participation of all citizens and specialists in tackling the challenges of the city environment, in improving the quality of life in over populated capitals and big urban areas. To be able to moving this development onwards and creating effective public services, the stakeholders should have access to qualitative capacity building services. However, the narrow specialization of the formal education provided by school and university institutions couldn’t address the multidisciplinary nature of the digitalization of the municipal services and the work of the local governments as a whole.
The variety of smart city technology aspects and concepts are:
· intelligent mobility
· sustainable environment
· accessible and secure digital services
· data driven decisions
· interconnectivity and interoperability
· M2M communication
· ArtificiaI Intelligence AI
· digital security and data privacy
· cyberphysical infrastructures
· and many others
as well as the challenges faced by each European city -
· massive population and urbanization
· limitations of the public services
· air and environment pollution
· infrastructure
· heritage preservation
and many others
As additional layer to their specialization and professional background the smart city builders would need to acquire knowledge and skills in:
· design, development and management of complex and autonomous ICT systems from the perspective of smart cities
· aspects and applications of the novel technologies in smart city development (big data, blockchain, high-performance computing, quantum computing, artificial intelligence etc.)
· communication, creativity, ethics, regulations, team work
SMACITE creates a platform with accessible open educational resources for acquiring this multi-disciplinary view on the challenges faced by the development of smart cities.
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