Building on Smart Cities Skills and Competences

This book provides insights on skills required to achieve success in smart cities from a variety of industry and human factors perspectives. It emphasizes the balance between learning skills, technical skills, and domain-specific skills in these industries, with special emphasis given to innovative software development models. The authors note that digital transformation requires complementary measures that are not overtly aimed to support infrastructure investment but are instead directed at promoting entrepreneurship, improving digital skills, engaging citizens, applying new transformation strategies, and developing innovative software. All of the above are considered strategically important, especially for medium-sized cities since that enable them to be more competitive in the global economy. - Presents insights on needed skills for achieving success in smart cities from a variety of industry perspectives; - Focuses on the human factors side of smart cities, which is integral to successful applications; - Includes the type of training that is needed to support modern smart ecosystems.