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Table of Contents  \nTable of Contents  \n1.  \n2.  \n3.  \n4.  \n5.  \n6.  \nIntroduction Methodology Findings  \nConclusions and Implications  \nAppendix: Sources Reviewed to Identify Smart Cities  \nAcknowledgements  \npg 4  \npg 8  \npg 10  \npg 20  \npg 24  \npg 26  \n3  \nBurning Glass/BHEF/CIT New Foundational Skills in Smart Cities  \n1.  \nIntroduction  \nIn recent decades, communities across the globe have been transformed by the spread of technology to all corners of life . This transformation has extended to the world of work and has disrupted the skills that workers must develop to remain competitive .  \nBurning Glass/BHEF/CIT Introduction  \nIn a 2018 special report,“The New  \nFoundational Skills of the Digital Economy: Developing the Professionals of the Future,”the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) commissioned Burning Glass Technologies to identify the skills that form the foundation of the new digital economy. An examination of more than 150 million unique U.S. job postings revealed 14 New Foundational Skills that converge around three interrelated groupings: Human Skills, Digital Building Blocks, and Business Enablers. Human Skills  \napply social, creative, and critical intelligence; Digital Building Blocks require understanding of the specialized methods, programs, tools, and frameworks that are most valuable and transferrable in a digital world; and Business Enablers play a synthesizing, integrative role in the workplace and allow other skills to be put to work in practical solutions. The report detailed the importance of these skills for job seekers and employers across the  \nU.S. economy.  \nThe New Foundational Skills of the Digital Economy  \nCommunication  \nDigital Design  \nAnalyzing Data  \n5  \nBurning Glass/BHEF/CIT New Foundational Skills in Smart Cities  \nTo fully grasp the impact of these new skills, however, it is necessary to look beneath broader economic trends and investigate how these skills are affecting communities at a local level. This report aims to do just that by turning the lens on a specific cohort of communities that are pioneers of the new digital economy: smart cities.  \nSmart cities are defined as those that have adopted digital technology into their infrastructure, governance, and workforce,  \nand are home to disruptive innovations and emerging industries. In smart cities, both the public and private sectors leverage data to improve the provision of goods and services. This report examines how that environment translates into labor market demand for New Foundational Skills. Because smart cities may serve as a bellwether for the broader economy, this skills-based analysis can inform future approaches to economic development aimed at helping workers build these skills.  \nBurning Glass/BHEF/CIT New Foundational Skills in Smart Cities  \n2.  \nMethodology  \n\n| Burning Glass/BHEF/CIT | Methodology |\n| --- | --- |\n| To pinpoint a set of smart cities in which to | San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; |\n| evaluate demand for the New Foundational | Los Angeles; Philadelphia; and San Diego. |\n| Skills, we surveyed existing literature and | We then mined Burning Glass Technologies’ |\n| sources—which are listed in the appendix— | database of more than 150 million unique |\n| and identified cities that were consistently | online job postings to identify jobs within |\n| ranked highly on measures of smart | these cities requesting one or more of the |\n| technology adoption. Because much of the | New Foundational Skills. These data were |\n| existing literature on smart cities focuses on | analyzed and benchmarked against the |\n| large, global cities, we restricted the analysis | nation overall to understand how demand |\n| to cities with at least 600,000 residents. The | for the New Foundational Skills differs in the |\n| resulting list includes New York; Boston; | most digitally advanced economies. |\n| |  |\n|  |  |\n\n","cbCaijEse9g4ED5i","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijEse9g4ED5i","pdf",4444860,28,"English","# Introduction\n## Methodology\n## Findings\n# Conclusions and Implications\n# Appendix: Sources Reviewed to Identify Smart Cities\n# Acknowledgements","[{\"question\":\"What are the “new foundational skills” described in the report?\",\"answer\":\"They are skills that form the foundation of the digital economy, organized around Human Skills, Digital Building Blocks, and Business Enablers.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the report study smart cities and their workforce skill demand?\",\"answer\":\"It surveys existing literature and mines job postings data for cities identified as smart-technology adopters.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the report focus on smart cities instead of only broad economic trends?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to examine effects at a local community level and use smart cities as a bellwether to inform future economic development approaches for workers.\"}]","Future Skills, Future Cities - New Foundational Skills in Smart Cities | PDF",1792043396,71]