Enabling the Sustainable Digital Transformation of Urban Ecosystems

During the last decade a huge effort has been carried out in terms of urban ecosystem digitalization. Hence, during the first wave of such transformation, many cities committed to deploy a dense IoT infrastructure for collecting and monitoring several urban services. The second wave was devoted to relying on such infrastructure for designing and deploying advanced services looking for more efficient performance. As part of this wave, a big effort has been carried out to extent the transformation beyond the technical domain but impacting on the society. Hence, concepts such as co-creation and citizen science are being consolidating. Leveraging on these initiatives, cities evolve upon the convergence of xG infrastructures, data spaces, federated learning, digital twin, and the forthcoming quantum computing techniques with the consequent impact.