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Wang Dong, Full Professor with Tenure at School of International Studies and Executive Director of iGCU, PKU
Wang Dong, Full Professor with Tenure at School of International Studies and Executive Director of the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding (iGCU), PKUWang Dong: Distinguished leaders, dear guests, ladies and gentlemen, good morning!Welcome to Peking University on this hot summer day to attend the Thematic Forum on “Building Smart Cities in a Changing World”! As a thematic forum...
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Dario Mihelin, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the People’s Republic of China
Dario Mihelin, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the People’s Republic of ChinaGood morning to all of you here. It’s much nicer to be inside today than outside in this hot summer and connecting to the topic that was just discussed, the whole element of climate change. I think it would be some of the factors very important for future development of smart cities as this global phenomenon...
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Héctor Jesús Dorbecker Herrera, Counsellor of Economics, Technology, New Industry and Financial Affairs, Embassy of Mexico in China
Héctor Jesús Dorbecker Herrera, Counsellor of Economics, Technology, New Industry and Financial Affairs, Embassy of Mexico in ChinaThank you. These presentations such as digital development, we have confidence that the conversation that we are having today are helping us to define how smart cities can develop regional integration. And within this multilateral forum, the digital economy will pla...
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Khan Muhammad Wazir, Counsellor of Technical Affairs, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Pakistan in China
Khan Muhammad Wazir, Counsellor of Technical Affairs, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Pakistan in ChinaThank you for giving me and my Embassy this opportunity to speak here. And this session is about the smart cities and regional integration. I really appreciate the work in the development of smart cities.. My name is Khan Muhammad Wazir. I am from the Embassy of Pakistan as the Technical Affair...
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Danny Alexander：Multilateral Development Banks should support and finance the infrastructure projects of smart cities
Sir. Danny Alexander, Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)Good morning!I am delighted to be here at this high level seminar on smart cities and regional integration representing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).The topic for today is an incredibly important one, because the world is urbanizing very rapidly. The global population living in cities as a shar...
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Giorgio Prodi: Cooperation between cities from different continents is crucial, experiences of building smart cities around the world
Prof. Giorgio Prodi, Professor of the Economics and Management School, University of Ferrara, ItalyDear organizers, I'm honored to be invited to give my contribution to this interesting forum.I want to start by mentioning what Dr. Chen Xi,Ffounder of Harbor Overseas, wrote in the 2023 Asian Smart City ranking which has been presented in this conference. The citiesaround the world and the reshap...
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Chen Xin: Digital Transformation and Inclusive Growth, Smart and Sustainable Cities in a Post-Covid World
Dr. Xin Chen, Research Fellow at New Zealand Asia Institute, University of AucklandI would like to thank the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding at Peking University and Prof.Wang Dong for the opportunity to participate in this forum and share my opinions on smart cities in a post-Covid world.Over the last decade or so, smart city initiatives across the world have leveraged innov...
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Fu Zhiming: From the 2023 Asia Smart City Ranking to the Changing Arabic World
Professor Fu Zhiming, Vice Dean of School of Foreign Languages, Peking UniversityEditor's Note: Professor Fu Zhiming, Vice Dean of Peking University's School of Foreign Languages, participated as a guest in theThematic Forum on “Building Smart Cities in a Changing World”at the Global Digital Economy Conference held on the morning of July 6th, 2023. With great expertise in Arabic studies, Prof...
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Nabil Fahmy: Building Smart City is Vital for the Global South and I would like to See the Next Smart City Report Including more Cities from the Global South
Keynote speechesNabil Fahmy, Former Foreign Minister of Egypt First of all, I would like to thank you very much for inviting me to participate in this important conference on digitalization and economic development 2023!I come from Egypt, a country in the global south, with ambitious goals in this respect. And if I may say, a reasonable success story where our industry in this regard has grown ...
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Djoomart Otorbaev: The Future of Smart Cities in Asia is Bright, Attracting Talents is Key
Keynote SpeechesDjoomart Otorbaev, Former Prime Minister of KyrgyzstanDistinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,It is my privilege to be able to speak today for the plenary session of the Asia Smart City Forum. I am sure that the forum will be a success.Why? It is because of the quality of agenda, especially the high ranking of participants. Though you will be making a lot of debates and discu...
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