{"id":4341,"date":"2021-12-16T19:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rezilio.com\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2025-03-24T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:42:37","slug":"we-are-the-cities-we-digitize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rezilio.com\/en\/we-are-the-cities-we-digitize\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ARE THE CITIES WE DIGITIZE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Smart City Expo World Congress 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After 10 years of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smartcityexpo.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.smartcityexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smart City Expo World Congress<\/a> in Barcelona the sector is evolving and adapting to a new era post Covid. This year <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rezilio.com\/en\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rezilio.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rezilio <\/a> joined in person the Canadian delegation with the support of the Canadian Embassy, the Bureau du Quebec \u00e0 Barcelona and the World Trade Centre Toronto. During these days we had a fantastic experience and the opportunity to participate to B-to-B meetings once again, pitching for cities, and exploring new opportunities and partnerships with innovators from around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This edition was obviously smaller but still interesting with a lot of opportunities to interact with other delegations from around the world. At the Congress (the conferences) you can find urban innovation approaches and company pitches, but at the Expo (the booths), every year the real fresh and disruptive ideas and pitches from emerging companies, SMEs and cities are being presented. I would recommend you pay attention to these \u201cnonregulated\u201d events, even though the \u201cofficial\u201d and well curated program is interesting and has more media coverage. At the Canadian delegation you could find some of these \u201cdisturbing\u201d companies. As delegates we also had the opportunity to meet other delegations from Deutschland, France, Belgium, Germany, or Catalonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking about the content: 10 years ago, we could find at the expo waste truck, bins, streetlights\u2026all full of sensors on it that were designed to bring \u201cSmartness\u201d everywhere. Now this event has understood that we need to talk about digitalization, city management for citizens of course, and other adjectives for cities ahead from \u201csmart\u201d (stay tuned for the Low-Tech city movement, a French one\u2026). Also, the sober use of technologies as AI with an ethical approach. The event seams to start to be attentive at the new \u201cIntelligent\u201d experiences in small medium dimension, ahead of the large and centralized \u201csmart\u201d projects with the well-known non cooperative tech actors. I still think that \u201cResilient\u201d should be one of these central ideas. I still believe that &#8220;resilience&#8221; should be one of the central ideas in city management to make all actors collaborate beyond being the buzzword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Spain and Europe, an opportunity to digitalization<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we were happy to present how we are helping cities and organizations to manage uncertainty and unforeseen events, making them more resilient to crises and natural disasters. It must be said that many cities find <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rezilio.com\/en\/discover-rezilio\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.rezilio.com\/en\/discover-rezilio\/\" target=\"_blank\">our advanced digital solution<\/a>, &nbsp;useful to manage in a single interface all their territorial and organizational plans to cope with any sort of disruption, from climate impacts to continuity of urban services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During these conversations with participants, it arises the tremendous opportunity for European and Canadian companies to help cities in their process of digitalization. In the past, the European public sector in some countries lack of financing to innovate. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/recovery-coronavirus\/recovery-and-resilience-facility_en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/recovery-coronavirus\/recovery-and-resilience-facility_en\" target=\"_blank\">Next Generation<\/a> Founds from EU  will allow some countries to boost their digitalization.&nbsp; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/recovery-coronavirus\/recovery-and-resilience-facility\/spains-recovery-and-resilience-plan_en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/business-economy-euro\/recovery-coronavirus\/recovery-and-resilience-facility\/spains-recovery-and-resilience-plan_en\" target=\"_blank\">Spain\u2019s recovery and resilience plan<\/a> for example,  will support the digital transition with investments in the digitalization of the public administration, in digital skills and digital inclusion, in cyber security and in connectivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, after 10 years and a pandemic, a lot of the discussions in the Smart City Expo World Congress will be finally the cradle of a European wave of digitalization, open to the world and that should be very important next years of recovery. 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