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Thunderbird School of Global Management
Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Excellence
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Overview
This Certificate provides an in-depth multidisciplinary orientation on the topic of Smart & Resilient Communities. It explores the history, present, and future of the ‘smart city’ concept, frames the future of our cities within the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution, provides a platform for a rich sharing of insights and best practices by experienced leaders from across the globe, and introduces the building blocks for successful digitalization and innovation strategies for communities, cities and regions.
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Who should attend
The certificate is aimed at leaders in both public and private sectors, practitioners, academicians, and civic innovators.
Faculty
Bas Boorsma
Professor of Practice, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Diana Bowman
Assoc Dean (ACD) for International Engagement and Professor
Landry Signe
Professor and Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program and the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution
Lev Gonick
Chief Information Officer at Arizona State University, Professor of Practice in the School of Public Affairs, and smart city architect
Jason Whittet
Digital innovation Lead, Amazon Web Services
Curriculum
Micro-cert: Smart Communities: Definitions, Myths, History, & Future
When we consider Smart Communities, what definitions do we choose and what assumptions and premises do we embrace? How does the phenomenon of a ‘smart city’ fit into larger sociological and technological traditions, trends and thoughts? There are varying agendas that drive the purpose of a smart community - environment, technology, ‘the citizen,’ and, in a post COVID-19 world more important than ever, resilience of communities. What will the agenda look like in the forthcoming ten years and how do we prepare?
Objectives
- Recognize, contextualize and explain different definitions, myths, agendas, premises and assumptions of Smart Cities as they exist or have existed in this domain.
- Develop a preferred definition of Smart Communities, including goals, desired impact and, where needed, means you deem central to the mission, learning needs included.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the ‘smart city’ concept within the context of sociological perspectives, technology trends, and differing agendas requiring an innovation strategy for communities (i.e., resilience in a post-COVID-19 world).
- Differentiate between digitization and digitalization and give examples of how you would apply these concepts in the urban innovation space.
Delivery: Online I Duration: 1 week I Start: On Demand I $299 I Certificate of Completion
