Technological challenges of participatory smart cities (FUN)

The course is designed for engineers or project leaders working for a company developing or willing to develop smart city projects involving citizen participation. It also addresses the challenges of professionals of a city government or a public institution who implement a smart city project which involves the deployment of digital technologies in the urban environment.

The course allows you to:

- understand what is a smart city and the digital technologies supporting it

- identify the required skills to design, develop and deploy innovative services toward smarter cities

- picture new digital services for the urban environment while capturing the technologies they rely on

- apprehend the costs and impediments (both technological and societal) that may occur to deploy a new digital service in the city

- investigate public participation in the development of smart cities and the technological and societal challenges that emerge from it.

Course Syllabus

Module 1 : Introduction: a perspective on smarter cities

Module 2 : Network infrastructures for participatory urban systems

Module 3 : Software infrastructures for participatory urban systems

Module 4 : Cloud-based urban data management

Module 5 : Privacy-preserving urban systems