ABSTRACT
The migration of humans from rural areas to cities is already forcing local governments to embrace innovative new ways of providing sustainable places to live. The Smart City HUB will focus on optimized and automated procedures, workflow and interoperability as well as an agnostic System of Systems that performs evidence-based analysis, supports data-driven decision making and incubates innovative algorithmic solutions. The social democratization of geographic information systems (GIS) Governance and Management Styles will allow geospatial science to guide town, city and county growth so that it is aligned with individual citizen needs and public service delivery. The future framework of Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure is a highly secure hosted “as-a-service” cloud environment that will stimulate a ubiquitous GIS environment. Historically, the IT department has done all the heavy lifting of selecting, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure that backbones an IT ecosystem.
