ZOOM Global Smart Cities: Love the Future

A new space dedicated to the topics that dominate cities and society in general related to the future of our urban spaces, their challenges and potential, the differences between regions and cities around the globe, involving actors and describing the feelings and emotions of those who build and live in cities.

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Smart Cities Q&A - LESSONS ALONG THE SMART CITY JOURNEY

Join us for this online meeting with one of the ZOOM GLOBAL SMART CITIE S members. In this Q&A session, you will have the chance to understand and debate the true power behind smart cities and what it takes, from the administration side, to move forward towards an impactful smart city project supported on leadership and strategy. James Noakes recently joined Belfast City Council as a City Innovation Broker working on the city’s exciting smart city programme and supporting the £350m Belfast C...

May 04, 2020•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 7

COVID-19 and the era of the Smart Health in Smart Cities

With the COVID-19 taking over the world, countries shutting down and people becoming aware of the effects of a global Pandemia in Economy and society in general, we can observe also that this is a war with brand new tools, technological and data related. Smart Health is featured in this episode of our Podcast with one of our experts, Margarida Bajanca , Economist and for years working with governments and institutions for healthcare and education areas. She is also one of the ZOOM GLOBAL SMART C...

Mar 23, 2020•12 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Smart Israel

Israel is an amazing country, full of creativeness and innovation and also lots of challenges because of the political and tense situation within the region. But that region has always been tense and problematic so, despite that, it is possible to see people from all believing’s, colors, races, and social positions, enjoying life and sharing the same space in a peaceful way. If there is a smart country ranking, Israel would be definitely in the first positions and the cities of Tel Aviv and Jeru...

Mar 02, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 5

What about Caldas da Raínha? One creative haven in Portugal.

Have you ever heard about this Portuguese city called Caldas da Raínha ? Probably not, but today you will know a little bit more about this incredibly smart and creative city. It has just received the UNESCO stamp for creative arts and crafts, but Portuguese people know Caldas da Rainha for a long time also because of the outstanding thermal water, beaches, and natural food. Caldas da Raínha is one of our ZOOM GLOBAL SMART CITIES Association delegation in. Portugal, is also where we can find Nic...

Feb 13, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Smart City Virus

Do you know Wuhan was one of the first Smart Cities in China? The city was featured in 2012 in the Smart City World Congress Barcelona and was deploying a lot of smart infrastructure and projects to become a global top smart city in...2020!! The Chinese word for "crisis" it's a combination of the characters "danger" +"opportunity" so, this Corona Virus crisis must be an opportunity also to turn cities around the world safer and healthier. And the Chinese have the right technology to contribute t...

Jan 30, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Permanent Quest

"We live in a permanent Clash with heartless boundaries and creative ways of ignoring and avoid problems that surround us, and with this, creating even more problems for the rest of the world." In this episode #2, I bring a reflexion about what may be happening in cities around the world, we need to start solving problems fast. I hope you enjoy and follow us for the forthcoming new weekly regular episodes. Send us your comments, thoughts, and suggestions! Whatsapp: +351 919999615 OR JOIN THE GRO...

Jan 28, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 2

ZOOM GLOBAL Smart Cities: Love the Future

In the very first episode of this first Serie, I bring some information about the Association ZOOM GLOBAL SMART CITIES and its purpose to contribute to promoting best practices, transparency and new models for business between cities and stakeholders. Opportunity to bring some light to future discussions around smart cities that have definitely left the technological dimension and fluctuate now in a wide range of topics. There's a special referenced for one of our anchor projects called Start Sm...

Jan 26, 2020•14 min•Season 1Ep. 1