EVENTS from Other Institutions
REGULATING SMART CITIES:
INFRASTRUCTURES, SHARING AND FINANCING
November 8, 2017 - November 10, 2017
Venue: Turin, Italy
Organizer(s): Turin School of Local Regulation, Florence School of Regulation Communication&Media
Language: English
Contact: SECRETARIAT
Turin School of Local Regulation
@ Fondazione per l'Ambiente
Via Maria Vittoria 38 | 10123 Torino - Italy
Phone: +39 346 8910600
email: eep@turinschool.eu
Info link: http:// www.turinschool.eu/eep/SC2017
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.
Programme:
WEDNESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 | 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
- IoT Solutions for Smart Cities: the current trends and challanges in the EU
- State-of-the-art in current smart city project
- Designing the Architecture of e-Infrastructure (openness v. closeness, interoperability, connectivity, standards, security)
- Tech and Urban Planning
THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2017 | 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
FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2017 | 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 (part I)
- Sharing platforms: competition and regulatory issues (part II)
- The role of the local regulation
- Final Discussion
- Concluding Remarks
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.
Programme:
WEDNESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2017 | 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
- IoT Solutions for Smart Cities: the current trends and challanges in the EU
- State-of-the-art in current smart city project
- Designing the Architecture of e-Infrastructure (openness v. closeness, interoperability, connectivity, standards, security)
- Tech and Urban Planning
THURSDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2017 | 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
FRIDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2017 | 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 (part I)
- Sharing platforms: competition and regulatory issues (part II)
- The role of the local regulation
- Final Discussion
- Concluding Remarks
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