Sin city to smart city, or atonement through technology: an introduction -- Data integration in a smart city: a real case -- Monitoring people’s mobility in the cities: a review of advanced technologies -- Paving the way to Society/Industry 5.0: the MSartMe.Io experience -- Ubiquitous technology for health -- On engaging communities in smart societies: crowdsourcing, gamification, and participatory design for accessible, sustainable, and safer urban mobility -- European smart city and urban transport -- Emerging Information and Communication Technologies: City logistics as a pillar of the Smart City -- E-grocery and ICT: Connection and its influence in making the Sicilian cities smart.

This book offers an overview of digital, IoT and intelligent technologies, applications and solutions that are contributing to shape the digital, inclusive, and sustainable transformation of contemporary cities. Based on peer-reviewed contributions to the workshop "Information and Communications Technologies for Smart Cities and Societies", held on December 2, 2022, at the University of Parma, Italy, it offers a multidisciplinary, authoritative snapshot for researchers, architects, and engineers, as well as professionals and policy makers, involved in planning the city of the future. The book describes practical case studies, discussing challenges and opportunities of the integration of ICTs in the planning and management of future cities.