The Smart City Journal, media partner of Saudi Smart City Expo

The Smart City Journal has reached an agreement to become a Saudi Smart City and Expo media partner that will take place on February 18 and 19, 2020 in Jeddah. The Smart City Journal the world's leading communication platform in the sector, will always be next to all those organizations that contribute to the orderly and sustainable development of the future.

The greats of knowledge

A new contribution on Smart Cities on a global scale. On this occasion it is written by the practicing architect Islam Bouzguenda. She worked in the field of consultancy for several years. After that, she received her Master's Degree in Smart Cities. She is currently finalizing her doctorate degree in smart and sustainable city planning with funding from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She received 4 awards, 2 grants and has 5 publications in this field. Now she contributes in the Geography Department of the Universitat de Girona.
ibouzguendaepalaswad@gmail.com
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/islam-bouzguenda-b9849746/
Twitter: @BouzguendaIslam

Today we incorporate to our platform the articles of the most important experts in the sector. And nobody better for this first chapter than Berrin Benli, CEO of the Novusens Institute of Ankara, one of the most open and innovative minds in the smart city.
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Renato de Castro is an expert in Smart City

He is the Smart Cities ambassador at the TM Forum in London, a member of the board of directors of NGO Cities from Boston and a volunteer advisor to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations information and telecommunications agency. He has accumulated more than two decades of experience as a global executive in Asia, America and Europe. He speaks fluently 4 languages and is a PhD candidate in Global Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

Renato has visited more than 30 countries, giving lectures on smart cities and advising governments on urban projects.

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Smart City: una luz en la gran niebla

Contundente artículo de Alejandra Labarca, directora de Valparaiso Smartcityhub, donde hace una clara apuesta por los dueños del conocimiento contra los dueños del capital (Nota: este artículo fue escrito en medio de la peor crisis social de Chile desde 1973)

Artículo: Smart City: una luz en la gran niebla

Antony Okundi

Antony Okundi, is a graduate Planner and GIS analyst who has unlimited interest in Urban, Infrastructural, Institutional Planning, and applied Geographic Information System in solving planning problems. He has an experience as Geo-planning assistant for local governments. He has also presented scientific papers in Conferences such as Esri User Conference 2017, RCMRD international Conference 15^th -17^th August 2018 and, 2^nd Biennial Conference 31^st Octr-2^nd Nov 2018.

Antony is a holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Nairobi, 2018.

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Mateusz Jarosiewicz

Mateusz Jarosiewicz is a entrepreneur in the technology industry. Expert in smart city, e-state and digitization at the National Institute for Strategic Studies. Creator of new technological and political concepts. Oner of the first coworking office in Poland. Creator and promoter of the concept of operating system for cities City2.0.neOS. Creator of the think-and-do tank Smart Cities Polska. Deputy editor-in-chief of the European City:One magazine dedicated to smart cities.
Smart Cities Polska is a non-governmental think-and-do tank associating people and entities working for Polish smart city solutions. Since 2016 it has conducted works to create a road map of the Polish smart city under the patronage of the Ministry of Digitization. Participating in the Smart City Working Group at the Ministry of  Digitization it contributed to a report on the development of smart cities. Its recommendations will be implemented as an projects. http://smartcitiespolska.org/en/about-us/

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