NOVA Information Management School

Information Technology in Cities Seminar II

Code

400049

Academic unit

NOVA Information Management School

Credits

4.0

Teacher in charge

Miguel de Castro Simões Ferreira Neto

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Objectives

This course aims at placing smart cities in a integrated perpspective of the different application areas.
The follwoing objectives should be attained:
- Understand the technological, informational and institutional principles of smart cities
- Understand and recognize the several application areas related to smart cities
- Evaluate and strenghten knowledge and methodological competencies in irder to design and manage actions in the context of smart cities
- Develop critical skils in the evaluation of cases developed by others 

Prerequisites

NA

Subject matter

The curricular unit is compososed of presentations and discussions on smart city related topics, presented by the insdustry and users.

Bibliography

NA; 0; 0; 0; 0

Teaching method

Seminar with case study discussion.

Evaluation method

Participation in class 20%
Development of a topic 80% 

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