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 aims to give participants an overview of the regulation and competition policy frameworks necessary to go along with smart city planning and development, alongside with deep insights from international real case studies presented and discussed among participants.