This is a service leadership education course.

Cities and communities worldwide are facing complex challenges such as economic pressure, infectious disease, climate changes, ageing and healthcare, energy crisis, pollutions, resource shortage etc. By integrating emerging Information Technology, Business Strategy and User-centric Design, smart city solutions could enhance the liveability, workability and sustainability of our society.

This course aims to develop a group of innovative change makers, who have a vision of social responsibility, sustainable development, leadership and are able to do strategic planning and design, so that they can bring social impact to their workplace, community and the World.

Students will learn the concepts, framework, key technologies (e.g. IoT, AI, big data, cloud computing) and applications related to smart city. Guided by the Design Thinking methodology, students will work in groups to co-design smart and sustainable solutions together with community partners (NGOs and social enterprises, etc.). Students will develop skills of human-centric design, create minimum viable product (MVP), and be able to evaluate the feasibility of the solutions considering policy, economy, culture, ethics, etc. Entrepreneurship spirit and marketing skills will be applied to promote those solutions to be widely implemented in different aspects of society (e.g. transportation, healthcare, environment, accessibility) and serve various groups of community. Those designed smart solutions may contribute to accelerating one or more Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN).