1 Introduction When investigating the concept of smart city, different meanings can be found for it. In a recent work, Albino et al. cite 23 definitions [2]. In general, a smart city evokes an abstract projection of a future city that reflects the cultural evolution and the social tensions of the present era. Carlo Ratti from MIT proposes an explanatory definition where the smartness of a city depends on its technology and interconnection capability. A smart city should be clean, appealing, efficient, open, collaborative, green and even more [7]. From the EU point of view, the smartness of a city can be evaluated through six main dimensions used to classify them, namely smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart life and smart governance [3]. Each axis contributes to the goal of sustainability and improvement of life quality and all of them share the concept of territory as playing a twofold role. A territory provides consumers with information, and a territory uses information from producers, with both activities addressed to create synergies among different planning strategies. Such a prosumerism is to be taken into account when designing smart services and applications for territories and citizens addressed to the achievement of sustainability, liveability and social equity [8]. As a matter of fact, large amounts of data from multiple sources are available and represent a significant potential for a territory that has to be properly managed so that it evolves into a resource. This actualization requires the involvement of multidisciplinary competences capable of both acquiring and using knowledge extracted from a territory / community, and integrating a proper usage of available technology within evolving scenarios. The need of embedding such competences within a unique professional profile is still a dismissed goal due to the implicit complexity of the above mentioned skills. On the other hand, the geodata is as a warp to weave a city “smart” and the geo- ICT is flooding the smart city ecosystem of a huge amount of applications. The Geographic Information Manager (GIM) represents a solution. It is an expert in the field whose main task is promoting the quality level and technical expertise growth within the network addressed to build an intelligent community. Her/his commitment is mainly focused on issues related to the capability to benefit of spatial data (spatial enablement), both in terms of availability of this information and as a skill achieved for their exploitation. In this paper, we describe the Italian initiative addressed to recognize the GIM as a new professional profile within the ICT sector by the UNINFO regulatory agency. The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the GIM profile in terms of tasks and competences. The rational underlying the proposal and relationships with other project outcomes are also discussed. In Section 3, initiatives carried out for the GIM regulation are described and the final version of the proposal is detailed. Final remarks are drawn in Conclusions. 2 The Geographic Information Manager Commitment The GIM mission is supporting a city to organize geographic information (GI) by both taking into account production costs and promoting its employment within sustainable processes. Based on this approach, a GIM should be able to − trace the GI production and usage by a city / community; − observe temporal evolution of GI flows and acknowledge recommendations for the activities planning; − evaluate and contribute to the capability of spatial enablement of a city / community; − foster the participation and encourage the collaboration among different city / community components; − focus the attention on disadvantaged, unmotivated and disinterested components of a city / community; − promote networking initiatives and maintain relationships with institutional bodies and organizations; Smart Cities and new professional opportunities: the Geographic Information Manager Sergio Farruggia Stati Generali dell'Innovazione Via Alberico II, 33 Rome, Italy sergio.farruggia@fastwebnet.it Monica Sebillo University of Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 Fisciano (SA), Italy msebillo@unisa.it Abstract The prosumerism of a territory represents its capability to provide consumers with information, and use information from producers, with both activities addressed to create synergies among different planning strategies. As a matter of fact, large amounts of data from multiple sources are available and represent a significant potential for a territory that has to be properly managed so that it evolves into a resource. This actualization requires the involvement of multidisciplinary competences capable of both acquiring and using knowledge extracted from a territory / community, and integrating a proper usage of available technology within evolving scenarios. The paper describes an Italian proposal addressed to the establishment of the professional profile of geographic information manager. Such a profile is built in terms of skills and competences and is properly embedded in a scenario where smart communities play a relevant role in realizing the systemic process started by the Open Government paradigm. The GIM commitment is mainly focused on issues related to the spatial enablement, i.e., the capability to benefit of spatial data, both in terms of its availability and as a skill achieved for its exploitation. The GIM profile is described as presented to the UNINFO committee that is in charge of regulating profiles concerning computer science technologies, at national level. Keywords: Geographic information, open government, smart cities and communities, digital competences, spatial literacy, spatial enablement.