WHAT: Smart cities can be seen as platforms where major building blocks such as energy&transport networks, ICT networks and services, active citizenship, existing infrastructure/institutions, city planning and law enforcement might be glued together into a system that is able to respond dynamically to a new set of bottom-up user-driven information.
Indeed the objective of a smart city is to foster the best conditions to develop new business and welfare models, to attain sound environmental results, to guarantee a better governance and ultimately to seamlessly increase the quality of life citizens-consumers. The course analyses the factors driving the development of smart city projects, with the aim of providing participants with the knowledge and skills that are needed to understand their main technological, economic and regulatory challenges.
WHO: The course is mainly addressed to policy makers, regulators, city planners, utility network specialists, industry experts, software architects, startuppers, researchers, local decision makers and community managers
PROGRAMME:
- Day 1 | SMART CITIES: UNDERSTANDING THE FUTURE OF INFRASTRUCTURE
An overview of the concept of smart city, its evolution and importance as a political tool, on the actors and services it involves and how these are regulated
- State-of-the-art in current smart city projects
- Designing the Architecture of e-Infrastructure (openness v. closeness, interoperability, connectivity, standards, security)
- Technology and Urban Planning
- Day 2 | BUSINESS MODELS AND FINANCING
Analysing how new business models are impacting local systems and how they can be regulated
- Smart business models
- Financing smart city projects,
A New Smart Model: Best Practices From the Public and the Private Sectors
- Case studies
- Day 3 | REGULATORY AND COMPETITION CHALLENGES FOR SMART CITIES
Technology-based sharing platforms are touching more and more people’s lives, how can policy and regulation cope with new technologies?
- Sharing platforms: competition and regulatory issues
- Big Data challenges
- Consumer protection
- Safety and security
- The role of the local regulation
- Debate
FACULTY:
Further details about the faculty will be published within the end of April.
SECRETARIAT:
TSLR Contact: Monica Postiglione, Monica.Postiglione@turinschool.eu
FSR Contact: Silvia Solidoro, Silvia.Solidoro@eui.eu
REGISTRATION, FEES AND LOGISTICS:
TSLR Contact: eep@turinschool.eu, tel. +39 346.891.0600
