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NEWS RELEASE
Dec. 22, 2011 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dubuque Mayor Participates in Global Smart City Summit
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Dubuque Mayor Roy D. Buol recently returned from Tainan, Taiwan, where
he was a featured speaker at the 2011 Global Smart City Summit.
Co- organized by Tainan City Government and Eco -City of the National Chiao Tung
University, "The Global Smart City Summit" was held December 14 -16. Buol was one of five city
leaders invited to discuss how to merge municipal governance and design, smart living
technology, and the ecological community to form an innovative integration mechanism, creating
a urban development strategy in the new era of the knowledge economy. Dubuque was the only
city from the western hemisphere represented at the summit, which featured speakers from
Belgium, India, The Netherlands, and Sweden, as well as Taiwan.
Buol's presentation, entitled "Sustainable Dubuque: Smart Technology and Community
Engagement," described the overall Sustainable Dubuque initiative and explained the Smarter
Sustainable Dubuque research project with IBM and the critical role community engagement
plays in related efforts.
Summit organizers say developing smart cities has become one of the most important
missions in developed countries. A "smart city" aims to develop an integrated ecosystem of
interconnected people, objectives and services as well as networked infrastructure enabled by
pervasive and transparent technology, to improve the quality of living environment, to advance
economic and political efficiency and to enhance social, cultural and urban development.
This annual summit not only serves as a platform for experience exchange and
knowledge sharing, but also provides participants with learning opportunities including a well -
connected cities workshop and smart technology achievement demonstration by enterprises.
The well- connected cities workshop is aimed to help service providers, city leaders and
agencies build the next generation of digitally enabled public services.
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Invitation fist - Smart City .Mayors
• Rob van Gijzel, Eindhoven Mayor
• Frank Jensen, Copenhagen Mayor
• Michel Destot, Grenoble Mayor
• Xavier Trias, Barcelona Mayor
• Sten Nordin, Stockholm Mayor
• Carin Wredstrom, Helsingborg Mayor
• Roy D. Buol, Dubuque Mayor
• Edwin Lee, San Francisco Mayor
• Alderman Patricia de Lille, Cape Town Mayor
• Sam Tan, Central Singapore District Mayor
• Graham Quirk, Brisbane Mayor
• Keiko Kiyohara, Kiyohara Mayor
Sessions (tentative)
Dec. 14 Day 1- Welcome Party
Time: 18:00 -20:00
Venue: Historic area
Dec. 15 Day 2 - Smart City Experience Exchange
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Time
Content
9:009:30
Opening and introduce honored guests
9:30-10:00
1)Tainan- vision of sustainable development and city government
10:00-40:30
2)Grenoble- two smart cities: Cagne- sur -mer &Grenoble
10:3010:40
Panel discussion 1
10:40-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-41:30
3)Barcelona- 22 @Barcelona, innovative public service system
11:3012:00
4)Eindhoven- low carbon, light the city
12:0012:10
Panel discussion 2
12:101 3:30
Lunch
13:30-44:00
5)Copenhagen- future city : Orestad
14:00-44:30
6)Stockholm: Green city, low carbon architecture
14:3014 :40
Panel discussion 3
14:40- 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 -15:30
Conclusion
15 :3017:30
Innovative technology and product demo
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.bout the Launch of the Summit
In the association of Eco -City of the National Chiao Tung University and Tainan City
Government, the "Global Smart City Summit" will be held on December 14 -16, 2011.
In this summit, various mayors of several benchmark cities in Europe and Taiwan will be
invited to discuss how to combine the city - governance and design, smart living technology,
and the ecological community all together to form an innovative integration mechanism,
creating a new way of the urban development in the new knowledge economy age.
Goals / Prosyects
1) Experience exchange of city - governance between the mayors
Leading by the following cities:
Copenhagen 1 Stockholm 1 Barcelona 1 Eindhoven
Taipei 1 Tainan 1 Yunlin 1 Chiayi 1 Kaohsiung
sustainable structure for the urban planning of an innovative city is discussed.
2) Introduce the smart technology of the enterprises
Farglory 1 CHIME! 1 Tatung 1 TSMC 1 Chunghwa Telecom
Philips 1 Ericsson 1 ARUP 1 Oracle 1
3) Cross - learning
Experience exchange between the cities to be used as the
urban service systems and solutions in the combination of
low- carbon, green energy, smart technology and innovation
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Dec. 16 Day 3 - Industry, Academy, Official, Research
Experience Exchange
Time
Content
9:00--9:30
ceremony of signing cooperation contract
9:3010:00
Enterpise 1: smart technology development
10:0010:30
Enterpise 2: smart technology development
10:30-10:50
Coffee Break
10:5011:20
Enterpise 3: smart technology development
11:2012 :00
Panel discussion 4
12:00-43:00
Lunch
13:00-49:00
Tainan city tour
City Theme
1) Tainan City - Regional Sustainable Development Prospects and City- Governance
New innovation and service- oriented economy and
the restructuring direction of the economy and space in a wide area.
2) Grenoble - Benchmark for future smart city
Two smart city projects by French Electronic company, Orange.
3) Barcelona - Development of Public Service in Innovative Cities
22 @barcelona Project: a successful case of the transformation of an old industrial area.
4) Eindhoven - Intelligent Urban Space Solution
Sustainable development on the interactive and smart buildings in cities;
Smart Light Service Module has applied the integration of open data provided
for public and private detectors by the market.
5) Copenhagen - Intelligent Transportation and Urban Life
Identify the technology trends and the new plans demanded by the city and its citizens;
the experience of living in the urban city in the innovative ways.
6) Stockholm - City - Governance and Future Energy
Conditions of the energy and resources recycling system that a smart city should have.
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Demo
1) Tainan City: Computer animation (Jiu- Fen -Zi)/ electric vehicles(CHIMEI)
2) National Cheng Kung University: Virtual future classrooms
3) National Chiao Tung University: i -Bike, health care service
Adopt the high technology on the urban / rural service systems, provide visitors with an
actual experience through the on -site demonstration, and enhance the application of smart
technology via the first summit in Asia
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