Global movement based in Portugal signs protocol with Portugal-China SME CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. The ZOOM GLOBAL SMART CITIES Association (ZGSC), formed in 2018, includes experts, scholars, academics, former mayors, and professionals from different areas and backgrounds from all over the…
Alternative smart cities
Global movement based in Portugal promotes manifest based on ethics and transparency for the future of smart cities. The ZOOM GLOBAL SMART CITIES Association (ZGSC), formed in 2018, is composed of experts, scholars, academics, former governors, and professionals from different…
Smart Cities will not thrive without ethics
With the proliferation of solutions and proposals that were biased and colliding with the public interest, it was necessary to equalize the smart city approach from the human point of view, with ethics, morals and transparency processes that allow an evolution supported on solid and indestructible pillars defending the new generations.
Smart Cities Q&A #4 with Manuel Pereira
Can the world live without art and culture? Can cities evolve faster to levels of development supported by creativity and the reception of social and cultural agents? Some questions that arise in times of a pandemic that have suspended virtually…
Smart Cities Q&A #3 with Marina Ostrowski
What does “Building Smart Cities” really mean? How can cities and investors use creative industries to promote economic and social progress? What are the tools and how do municipal administrations on the one hand and property developers and investors…
Smart Cities Q&A # 2 with Guilherme Correia
A little more than a decade has passed since the first cryptocurrencies emerged, and we started to pay attention to blockchain as an alternative for the certification of processes and safeguarding reliability and transparency of data. Blockchain started to be…
Smart Cities Q&A #1 with James Noakes
An opportunity to talk about the most common concepts in smart cities and idealize the best scenarios that guarantee sustainability and economic and social progress. James Noakes, also addresses the concrete cases he works (or has worked with) directly like…
Podcasts, Webinars and other online content
As we have been announcing since last year, we launched our Podcast series last November and, during the COVID-19 crisis, the first series of online conferences “Smart Cities Q&A”, using ZOOM platform, YouTube and Social Media. These are important initiatives…
The path of intelligence
The past few weeks have been challenging for citizens and governments. The confinement because of COVID-19 brought half of the world’s population a new reality and forced them to change their daily habits. The quarantine, justified as “necessary” to avoid…
Smart Buildings Are Creating Smart Cities
By Jim W Young A Smart City and the Smart Buildings therein are not a marketing campaign, slick sales technique nor an amusing political catch phrase. It is a series of solutions to a serious and urgent situation the world…