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Citizen involvement in the co-creation process of products or services.
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Day 1 Session 1: Barcelona @ Selangor Smart City Intl Conference 2016sitecmy
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This is the keynote of Antonio Skarmeta presenting MiMurcia Smart City Proyect on Tron Show 2017. More info about the company and the proyect:
https://cpaas.bfh.ch/?p=778
www.odins.es
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• monitoring services’ status of city operators
• monitoring and understanding the city users behaviour
• collecting moods, contributions and data from the city users
• monitoring social media for city services and events, event predictions
• improve city resilience, reducing risks and decision support by:
• assessing city resilience level
• improving city resilience, providing objective hints
• improving city users awareness with personal city assistants and participatory tools
• transform data in value for the city:
• enabling commercial and business applications
• aggregating multi-domain data and services for SMEs and city operators
• enabling integrated city services into third party web portal for all
• providing suggestion on demand services for SMEs and city operators
• accelerating and simplifying the implementation of business and service oriented Apps
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Bambucluster's point of view on how IoT can be a key enabler of Smart Mobility/ transportation solutions. Presented on June 14th, 2017 at the the BrightTALK Internet of Everything summit:
https://summits.brighttalk.com/webinar/iot-enabled-smart-mobility-hype-or-reality/
Urban mobility has always been about moving people from location to location through motorized personal or public transport. However, the proliferation of sensors, smartphones and intelligent high bandwidth networks are compelling towns & cities around the world to re-think urban mobility and consider technology enablers to drive towards a vision of “smart” mobility. Furthermore, the fundamental assumptions underpinning mobility are being challenged.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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Day 1 Session 1: Barcelona @ Selangor Smart City Intl Conference 2016sitecmy
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Presentation by Elia Hernando Navarro (Director of Smart Urban Projects, mediaurban) at the Selangor Smart City International Conference 2016 on December 6th 2016.
Elia presented about Barcelona's challenges and solutions and how it has managed to improve the lives of its citizens by using Smarter technology.
This is the keynote of Antonio Skarmeta presenting MiMurcia Smart City Proyect on Tron Show 2017. More info about the company and the proyect:
https://cpaas.bfh.ch/?p=778
www.odins.es
A smart city / Region with smart citizen and smart business
ecosystem. - prezentacja Sergiego Figueroli podczas konferencji „SMART_KOM. Kraków w sieci inteligentnych miast”, 7.11.2014 r., Kraków
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How can cities stay sustainable in the future? How can a city interact with citizens with proximity marketing? How to make citizens feel they are truly connected to the city?
Internet of Things, Web of Data & Citizen Participation as Enablers of Smart Cities
Internet of Things
Broad Data:
Big Data
User-generated Data
Linked Data
Urban analytics
Smart Cities
Open Government
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Open Source and inter-operable tools to
• keep city under control via personalized dashboards
• monitoring services’ status of city operators
• monitoring and understanding the city users behaviour
• collecting moods, contributions and data from the city users
• monitoring social media for city services and events, event predictions
• improve city resilience, reducing risks and decision support by:
• assessing city resilience level
• improving city resilience, providing objective hints
• improving city users awareness with personal city assistants and participatory tools
• transform data in value for the city:
• enabling commercial and business applications
• aggregating multi-domain data and services for SMEs and city operators
• enabling integrated city services into third party web portal for all
• providing suggestion on demand services for SMEs and city operators
• accelerating and simplifying the implementation of business and service oriented Apps
Follow the Km4City City Smartener Process
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https://summits.brighttalk.com/webinar/iot-enabled-smart-mobility-hype-or-reality/
Urban mobility has always been about moving people from location to location through motorized personal or public transport. However, the proliferation of sensors, smartphones and intelligent high bandwidth networks are compelling towns & cities around the world to re-think urban mobility and consider technology enablers to drive towards a vision of “smart” mobility. Furthermore, the fundamental assumptions underpinning mobility are being challenged.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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4. Introduction
• Rapid increase of urban
population worldwide
• ICT make cities more
accessible and enjoyable for
both residents and visitors
• The development of Smart
City could also encourage
the formation of Smart
Tourism Destinations
Research Objective: Identifying opportunities and challenges as well as conceptualising a
framework toward Smart Tourism Destinations.
6. Internet of Things
Firstly coined by Kevin Ashton (MIT) in 1999
The idea behind the IoT is to
generate automatic real-time
interactions among real
world object that connect to
the Internet which
consequently also reduce the
gap between real world and
digital realm (Erb, 2011).
7. • IBM defined Smart City as a city that
make their system instrumented,
interconnected and intelligent
• Smart Cities have the ability to give
intelligent response to various kinds of
needs that happen within the same
time interval.
• Citizen involvement in the co-creation
process of products or services.
10. Smart Tourism Destinations take advantage of…
1. Technology embedded environments
2. Responsive processes at micro and macro levels
3. End-user devices in multiple touch-points
4. Engaged stakeholders that use the platform dynamically as a
neural system
11. 3 Vital Forms of ICT
for Smart Tourism Destinations
Cloud Computing
Internet of Things
End-User Internet Service System
The ultimate aims are to enhance tourism experience, improve the effectiveness of resource
management, maximising both destination competitiveness and demonstrate sustainability.
12. Tourism Applications
in Smart Tourism Destinations
No. Tourism Apps Utility Function Destination
Components
Smart Tourism
Destinations
Dimensions
1. Augmented reality Interpretation Attractions Smart People,
Smart Mobility
2. Vehicle tracking Planning Accessibility Smart Living,
Smart Mobility
3. Hotel energy predictor Sustainability Amenities Smart
Environment
4. Multi-languages travel guide app
which also offers available
packages
Guidance Available
Packages
Smart People,
Smart Mobility
5. NFC tags and QR codes to access
information about nearby points
of interest
Proximity Marketing Activities Smart Mobility
6. Tourist Complaints Management
System
Feedback Ancillaries Smart Living
13.
14.
15. Smart Tourism Destinations Impact
No. Stakeholders Characteristics of Outcome
1. Tourism
Organisations
- Coordinates information and makes it easily accessible for users
to access real-time information
- Engage with local communities, tourists and government in co-
creating tourism experience
- Organisational agility, speed decision making and responsive to
customers’ needs based on just-in-time insights
- Precision targeting and personalised service
2. Governments - Regulate data privacy
- Establish Public-Private Partnership
3. Local Residents/
Local Communities
- Constantly connected
- Sufficiently creative and empowered
- Technology savvy
- Citizen Journalism
4. Tourists - Well-connected and well-informed
- Active critics and buzz marketers
- Demand highly personalised service
5. Environment - Innovation ecosystem
- Sensor networks throughout the environment
18. Conclusion
The priorities of Smart Tourism
Destinations construction are
1. To enhance tourists’
experience
2. To provide more intelligent
information platform
3. To facilitate efficient allocation
of tourism resources; and
4. To integrates tourism suppliers
at both micro and macro level
aiming to ensure benefit is
well distributed to local
society.
Editor's Notes
The rapid increase of urban population worldwide has triggered intricate challenges for cities around the world. As cities become increasingly competitive and complex, ICT will make cities more accessible and enjoyable for both residents and visitors, for example is through the formation of Smart City. With this in mind, the new era of ICT has also opened a wealth of new tools for the tourism industry. The development of Smart City could also encourage the formation of Smart Tourism Destinations aiming to enrich tourist experiences and enhance destinations competitiveness.
He defined IoT as a network that connect anything in anytime and anyplace.
Instrumentation denotes that city activities are measurable by sensors that scattered around the city; interconnection means that every bit of a city are connected through ICT network both wired and wireless; and intelligence refers to predictive applications that have the ability to generate more accurate decisions.
Boyd Cohen has developed Smart City Wheel as a tool to support the development of Smart Cities strategies as well as tracking their progress. Within this wheel, Cohen (2012) has defined few indicators for each of the smartness dimensions.
Successful destinations can be structured as the 6 As of tourism destinations:
Cloud Computing services are designed to provide convenient way to access solid web platform and data storage through certain network. The use of Cloud Computing is going to reduce fixed costs and shift them into variable costs based on the necessities (Etro, 2009). IoT could support smart destinations in terms of providing information and analysis as well as automation and control (Chui, Löffler, & Roberts, 2010). For example, chips embedded to entrance ticket to control visitor number. End-User Internet Service System, which refers to number of applications at various levels supported by combination of Cloud Computing and IoT.
A range of smart services can be seen on Table 1 which shows how 6As Destination Components and Smart Tourism Destination Dimensions as derivate from Smart City Dimensions could be combined and possibly generate tourism applications with each of its utility function to be implemented in Smart Tourism Destinations.
Broadly foreseeable changes caused by smartness immersion triggers different outcome for each stakeholders as summarised below.
The flagship of the transformation to Smart Tourism Destinations is destination-wide access to real-time information. To achieve this, tourism authorities should ensure that any information should be made openly available. There are two main information sources: (1) information coming from the city that involves sensors and city elements; and (2) information coming from the citizens as digital footprint from their social media activities (Bakici, Almirall, & Wareham, 2013). Users could use this information to identify problems as well as customised potential solutions to overcome those problems.
To maintain rapid growth of technology, destination is best to use Living Labs as their tools for learning which provide benefits like product improvements but also foster innovation and give insights for future markets by engage with group of users to capture market and involve them iteratively through a co-creation process.
Further, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is essential when running a Smart Tourism Destinations initiative. PPP fosters efficiency, support creativity and induce innovation to flourish (Heeley, 2011). Private companies can offer innovative design, project management skills and risk management expertise.
Smart Tourism Destinations is not politically neutral. Attributing a higher score to specific settings which attract higher private investments imposes a certain approach towards distinguishing between what is desirable and what is not and sometimes charts are being used to reflect city’s achievement. Charts are politicians’ favourite, since their simple schematics and apparent objectivity can be used to justify political rationales. Danger behind this view is that the development policies be based on a single model, applicable everywhere and linked only to the application of technological solutions with limited local adaptation.
Privacy Intrusion: Intelligent systems capture information about users, i.e physical location of tourists which is a potential threat to privacy. Many techniques have been proposed to protect privacy, namely noise addition, micro-aggregation, rank swapping, rounding; aiming to distort data in order to avoid the linkage of private information with individual respondents
Smart Tourism Destinations cored in massive tourism resource data centre, supported by Internet of Things and Cloud Computing, focused on enhancing tourists experience