What can medium sized cities do to grow digital jobs through the smart city agenda?

2. Key conclusions
#TeamTechTown

3. A REMINDER OF TECHTOWN THEMES
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4. TECHTOWN THEMES
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Better understanding the digital economy
Growing digital jobs
 Growing new digital jobs through start ups and existing businesses
 Growing jobs through the digital transformation of traditional industry
 Growing digital jobs through the smart city agenda
Providing spaces and places for connections
Finding, growing, retaining and returning talent

5. WHAT CAN MEDIUM SIZED CITIES
DO TO GROW DIGITAL JOBS
THROUGH THE SMART CITY
AGENDA?

6. OUR KEY QUESTIONS IN LOOP CITY
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How can cities ensure that they maximise the local jobs creation
potential linked to delivering smart city agendas?
How can they avoid larger multinationals reaping all the rewards
and ensure that cities grow indigenous digital businesses and local
jobs?
What does good governance look like? Political leadership?
How can cities create 'living labs' or 'test beds' for new intelligent
city solutions?

7. 7
Smart city Futures

8. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Drive demand for innovative
solutions
• Provide test beds where smart
city solutions can be trialed in a
real setting
• Facilitate links between
different levels of governance
and between different
stakeholders
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9. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Drive the agenda through
collaborative leadership and multi
stakeholder co-creation of
integrated plans
• Provide / facilitate places and spaces
where large corporates and start ups
can innovate side-by-side
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10. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Collect and openly share accessible
data
• Work in partnership with industry
leaders to identify existing
solutions and grow local expertise
and capacity to implement
• Raise awareness of potential win-
wins for the city’s citizens and
businesses – ‘Smart cities need
smart citizens’
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11. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Support digital education for
young people (and toddlers)
to aid the transition from
citizens being consumers of
tech to being creators
• Lead by example by working
with start ups to disrupt &
develop e-government
services
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12. THANKS TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED FOR
YOUR TIME AND CONTRIBUTIONS!
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