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Building on Smart Cities Skills and Competences

Human factors affecting smart cities development

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Internet of Things (ITTCC)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Skills and Competences for Smart Cities’ Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Emerging Smart City Job Roles and Skills for Smart Urban Governance

      • Theodor Panagiotakopoulos, Omiros Iatrellis, Achilles Kameas
      Pages 3-19
  3. Strategy and Projects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
    2. The Dynamic Formation of a Successful Smart City Roadmap

      • Georgios Siokas, Aggelos Tsakanikas
      Pages 71-93
    3. Smart Cities: Emerging Risks and Mitigation Strategies

      • Konstantinos Kirytopoulos, Theofanis Christopoulos, Emmanuel Dermitzakis
      Pages 123-139
    4. City Resilience and Smartness: Interrelation and Reciprocity

      • Christos Ziozias, Leonidas Anthopoulos
      Pages 141-153
    5. Smart City Projects Evaluation: A Bibliometric Approach

      • Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Stella Manika
      Pages 155-168
  4. Citizen Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
    2. Learning to Engage Citizens to Make Smarter Cities

      • Kleanthis Sirakoulis, Stella Manika
      Pages 187-199
    3. Developing Smart City Ambassadors in Oman

      • Judy Backhouse, Laila al Hadhrami
      Pages 201-216
    4. Toward E-Deliberation 2.0

      • Vassilis Tsakanikas, Georgia Rokkou, Vassilis Triantafyllou
      Pages 229-246
    5. No-Code for Smart Cities

      • Ahmed ElBatanony, Giancarlo Succi
      Pages 247-256
  5. Smart Cities Innovative Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University Of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

    Panos Fitsilis

About the editor

Professor Dr. Panos Fitsilis is a Full Professor at the Business Administration Department of the University of Thessaly, Greece. He has extensive project management experience with the development and deployment of large IT systems and extensive management experience in various senior management positions.

During his career, he has been responsible for the development, deployment, and operation of a number of prestigious IT systems for the European Commission, the European Parliament, multinational companies, etc. He has worked in more than 60 research or commercial IT projects, in various roles (programmer, project manager, quality engineer, business unit manager, consultant, reviewer).

He is the author of four books: “Contemporary Business Information Systems, 2nd edition”, “A practical guide to entrepreneurship – case studies”, “Software Project Management”, “Object-Oriented Development using UML” and the author of more than 100 papers published at scientific journals and international conferences.  Recently, he coordinated the development effort, and he is one of the authors of the first internationally available book on “Smart Cities Body of Knowledge”.

Currently, he is a member of the working group for “Smart and Viable Cities” at Hellenic Standardization Organization, member of ITU initiative "United for Smart Sustainable Cities" (U4SSC), Greek National Representative in CEN/TC 428/WG 2 for “Competence, skills, knowledge, and roles”.

His research interests include smart cities, smart factories, business information systems, educational technology, software project management and agile methods, skills development, etc.

 

 

 

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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