This document discusses ways that medium-sized cities can grow digital jobs through smart city initiatives. It suggests that cities support local entrepreneurs in developing solutions to community challenges through hackathons. The document also recommends that cities provide follow up support to help solutions be piloted and implemented. Additionally, it advises cities to localize efforts, drive agendas through collaboration, openly share data, work with industry leaders, raise public awareness, lead by developing e-government services, and provide test beds to help startups initiate and grow.

2. Key conclusions
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3. A REMINDER OF TECHTOWN THEMES
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4. TECHTOWN THEMES
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Better understanding the digital economy
Growing digital jobs
 Growing new digital jobs through start ups and existing businesses
 Growing jobs through the digital transformation of traditional industry
 Growing digital jobs through the smart city agenda
Providing spaces and places for connections
Finding, growing, retaining and returning talent

5. WHAT CAN MEDIUM SIZED CITIES
DO TO GROW DIGITAL JOBS
THROUGH THE SMART CITY
AGENDA?

6. OUR KEY QUESTIONS IN DUBROVNIK
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How can cities ensure that they maximise the local jobs creation potential
linked to delivering smart city agendas?
How can they avoid larger multinationals reaping all the rewards and
ensure that cities grow indigenous digital businesses and local jobs?
What role could local city challenges, hackathons play?
What role could public procurement play?
What does good governance look like? Political leadership?
How can cities create 'living labs' or 'test beds' for new intelligent city
solutions?

7. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Support local communities to
identify and articulate local (smart
city) challenges
• Facilitate events and initiatives to
enable local entrepreneurs to
develop solutions to these
challenges (e.g. hackathons)
• Provide follow up support to
enable solutions to be developed,
piloted and implemented
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8. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Localise it! Take advantage of
the human scale of the city to
engage people and
businesses
• Drive the agenda through
collaborative leadership and
multi stakeholder co-creation
of integrated plans
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9. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Collect and openly share
accessible data
• Work in partnership with
industry leaders to identify
existing solutions and grow
local expertise and capacity to
implement
• Raise awareness of potential
win-wins for the city’s citizens
and businesses
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10. MEDIUM SIZED CITIES CAN:
• Lead by example by working
with start ups to disrupt &
develop e-government
services
• Provide test beds / living labs
for connected devices etc
• Help start ups to initiate and
grow
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11. THANKS TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED FOR
YOUR TIME AND CONTRIBUTIONS!
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