INVITATION: Smart Cities Knowledge Silos Breaker Launch Workshop | February 11, 2016 | 2-5PM | MC9-100

[Subhrangsu Goswami]

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Subhrangsu Goswami

Asst. Professor & Area Chair, Environmental Planning I Faculty of Planning

Chairman - CEPT University Admission Committee 

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From: Qiyang Xu <qx...@worldbank.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:43 PM
Subject: INVITATION: Smart Cities Knowledge Silos Breaker Launch Workshop | February 11, 2016 | 2-5PM | MC9-100
To: Qiyang Xu <qx...@worldbank.org>

Dear colleague,

 

It is with great pleasure that we would like invite you to Smart Cities Knowledge Silo Breaker (KSB) Launch Workshop at 2pm-5pm on February 11^th. Please see an invitation below and more information is available on Smart Cities KSB Spark Page. We encourage you to RSVP and appreciate your sparing a few minutes to complete our pre-event survey to help us better understand your expectation to the event and frame our dialogue.

 

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing you on the 11^th!

 

All the best,

Smart Cities KSB team

 

 

 

Smart Cities and the Twin Goals Smart Cities KSB Launch Workshop   Thursday, February 11, 2016  ||  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm  ||  Room: MC9-100 Click to RSVP and add to calendar: Notes Users and Outlook Users If you would like to join via WebEx: https://goo.gl/Pqx8Zx Meeting number:  731 279 866 Meeting password:  p8Rj5RWf Audio connection: 1-650-479-3207 Call-in toll number (US/Canada) Access code: 731 279 866                     Urbanization is happening at an unprecedented pace across the world. By 2050, about 70% of the world’s total population will reside in cities, placing opportunities and challenges on governments, city planners, and citizens from various perspectives.                   The concept of Smart Cities has emerged over the past decade and gained increasing popularity with the ubiquitous presence of internet and internet-connected phones worldwide. Smart Cities aims to leverage both ICT and non-ICT innovations, enhance or replace existing infrastructure, making it smarter to improve the capacity of the city to better cope with challenges urban community is facing. More specifically, it improves sustainability, economic viability and citizen well-being using innovative solutions for urban management, energy, transport, water and waste management, and governance, etc.                   In collaboration with city leaders and stakeholders, the World Bank Group has long been committed to optimizing city services and management via a range of smart city solutions. The Smart Cities Knowledge Silo Breaker (KSB) aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and dissemination on Smart Cities across the World Bank Group.   Through this launch event and Smart Cities KSB, we hope to ·         catalyze shared-prosperity-oriented smart city solutions via effective definition, knowledge-generation, -sharing, and –transmission within the World Bank Group ·         facilitate exploration of potential opportunities and facilitate cross-GP collaboration on Smart Cities business development ·         equip Bank teams with cutting edge knowledge on smart city solutions and incentivize collaboration between external expertise and Bank practices on Smart Cities agenda     Agenda 2:00pm – 2:15pm: Opening Remarks Silo Buster Minutes Introduction of the agenda 2:15pm – 3:15pm: Design thinking and ICT innovations as Smart City Solutions Smart Cities Experience from the Ohio State University, NIST and Mexico City Lab 3:15pm – 3:30pm: Coffee break 3:30pm – 3:40pm: Smart City Knowledge Mapping presentation 3:40pm – 4:40pm: Staff Roundtable – Lessons from the Bank projects on smart cities 4:40pm – 5:00pm: Guidance and next steps for Smart Cities KSB     Invited Speakers   Sokwoo Rhee, National Institute of Standards & Technology, USA Jennifer Evans-Cowley, Ohio State University Gabriella Gomez Montt, Mexico City Lab   For more information please refer to Smart Cities KSB Spark page If you have any questions, please contact: nsu...@worldbank.org

 

 

 

 

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