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Presentando el libro Smart Cities en Santander, Gijón y Barcelona.

En 2011, cansados de escuchar la palabra crisis decidimos pensar out of the box, y concebir un proyecto que ayudase a situar a ciudades y empresas españolas en los foros más relevantes de discusión sobre el futuro y el crecimiento sostenible. El proyecto se materializa eligiendo un tema: smart cities, y la comparación de más de ocho ciudades de tres continentes en las que están incluídas tres ciudades españolas: Málaga, Tarragona y Santander. Este trabajo en equipo, con el patrocinio del Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Comunicación, y de Accenture España en alguna de sus fases, se ha presentado en los foros más relevantes del mundo en planificación urbana, política local e innovación administrativa en Baltimore y Tweente (Holanda) en 2013, en Varsovia, Lisboa y Shaghái (Fudan) en 2015 y en Tarragona, Qatar y Lisboa en 2016.

La semana entrante presento los resultados de este trabajo en forma de libro, escrito en castellano en:
Santander,
Lunes 20, a partir de las 9:30 de la mañana, con ocasión de la Jornada Futuro en Español, de Vocento, en colaboración con CAF (banco de Desarrollo Latinoamérica y Caribe), que se celebra en día 20 de junio en Santander en el diálogo (diálogo programado a las 13 horas) que seguirá a la ponencia titulada Modelos de innovación en ciudades inteligentes e inclusivas, a cargo de Alfonso Vegara.
Hotel Bahía de Santander, C/ Alfonso XII. Tlf: +34 902 57 06 27

Gijón,
Martes 22, a partir de las 9:30 de la mañana, en Hotel Abba Playa Gijón, Po Doctor Fleming, 37, Tlf. 985 00 00 00. Participo en el diálogo (diálogo programado a las 13 horas) a continuación de la conferencia impartida por Guillermo Peñalosa, titulada ‘Creando ciudades exitosas y saludables para todos’. El señor Peñalosa es experto desarrollo urbano y presidente de Ciudades 8 80.

Barcelona,
Miércoles 23, en Foment del Treball. Via Laietana, 32, principal. 12:30 horas. Inscripción

Se trata de un libro de divulgación, muy interesante para alcaldes y gestores públicos, así como para activistas urbanos interesados en modelos participativos de la sociedad y las empresas en planes de ciudades inteligentes. Si has recibido un enlace invitándote, es porque me encantaría contar con tu presencia y la de personas que pienses podrían estar interesadas. Confirma conmigo los lugares de celebración en Santander y Gijón antes de desplazarte. Un saludo muy cordial!

Olga Gil Foment del Treball Smart Cities

Olga Gil Foment del Treball Smart Cities

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Discussing ​Smart Cities in Doha​

We have been in Doha (Qatar) from March the 14​th to the 17th​ together with an interesting team from the SEK Group and Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC). ​I had the opportunity to lead a workshop and a conferences, the workshop was at the Ministry of Public Works, on March 15th and the conference was prepared for a group of 40 people, including corporate managers, Latins in Qatar and the Spanish Ladies in Qatar at the Intercontinental Hotel The City. The organization of Damián Fernández @damianmadrid was of outmost value along the stay.

I presented the book I co-authored and published recently on smart cities, as well as the interdisciplinary projects we are aiming at around the smart city idea at the different schools at Universidad Camilo José Cela, involving architecture, communications, health science, education and sports.
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Attendants shared questions about the smart city concept.

The size of the public allows for networking of peers. We have keept the cohort small at 10 participants to the workshop and 30 to the conference. Since they are from across the world and public and private experts are included, the network of individuals allows to discuss smart cities and their challenges from a broad perspective. Some of the attendants to the workshop, specially the engineers, emphasized the importance of having happy people in the cities, and being able to have measures of happiness, rather than overbuild or embed information and communications technology into urban territories. This is an interesting insight. I always learn from people coming to conferences and workshops, as they pose new questions and highlight facets that could have been overlooked. The work of Coates on the geopolitics of the Gulf countries in recent years was very useful to prepare and adapt to the local context.

The SEK team, together with the UCJC team presented interesting pre-college summer courses offered under the heading “Humanities, Science and Technology” for 16 and 17 year-old students to parents. ​SEK Group was founded 120 years ago, and has become widely as the most well-known private educational institution in Spain. SEK has six schools in Spain, one in Dublin (Ireland), one in Les Alpes (France) and a school in Doha (Qatar). SEK schools schools follow the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum, and use English and Spanish as the languages of instruction in Spain. In Doha Arabic and Spanish are taught as foreign languages. In Spain SEK group has a 100% success rate for students´ University Entry Exams. SEK Group together with Camilo Jose Cela University add up over 17,000 students attending the educational institutions every year.

This post is work in progress, as I will be reflecting on all the data gathered along the stay. Let me, for the time being share these pictures with you.​
Olga Gil y grupo SEK UCJC
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