Smart Cities and Digital Transformation: Empowering Communities, Limitless Innovation, Sustainable Development and the Next Generation

Smart Cities and Digital Transformation offers a three-tiered approach to tomorrow’s cities in terms of limitless innovation, sustainable development and empowering communities.

Discussing key issues including civic engagement, communication, ethicality, participation and motivation, Smart Cities and Digital Transformation proposes best practices, applied research and lessons learnt in the fields of digital transformation and sustainable development. Authors integrate scientific knowledge and industry services with significant social sciences research to provide an end-to-end understanding of the components of future smart city applications or services. Emphasising emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, open sources platforms and virtual reality, chapters also provide the reader with a unique analysis of a new generation of transparent technologies for the improvement of the quality of life and well-being in modern cities.

Employing an active learning approach focused on building critical thinking skills, Smart Cities and Digital Transformation serves a diverse ecosystem of industry changemakers to jointly mobilize a new form of economy directly linked to the development, value and impact of smart cities.

Miltiadis D. Lytras is a world-class information systems expert and consultant. He is Research Professor at Deree College, the American College of Greece, Greece, Distinguished Scientist at King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia, and Visiting Scholar at Effat University, Saudi Arabia.

Abdulrahman A. Housawi is a practicing Nephrologist and Transplant Physician at King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam (KFSH-D), the Director of Privatization Affairs at the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Chief Officer for Planning and Organizational Excellence at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS).

Basim S. Alsaywid is a Consultant Pediatric Urologist in Urology Department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Saudi Arabia, as well as the Director of Education and Research Skills at Saudi National Institute of Health Initiative.