(Interview) Democratizing urban data: A way to shape the future of our cities – Dr Valérie Issarny, Inria and Dr Alexey Pozdnukhov, University of California Berkeley

Inria, CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, UC Berkeley) and Prime strike a partnership to accelerate the development of ambitious research and experimentation initiatives on issues relating to urban centers. Mrs. Genevieve Fioraso, French Minister for Higher Education and Research, witnessed the signature of this Memorandum of Understanding on February 12th, 2014 during French President’s visit in San Francisco. This interview focuses on research collaboration on the democratization of urban data toward healthy cities.

See the interview on the Inria@Silicon Web site by following the link: Inria@SiliconValley

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Smart city day at the BIS workshop

The goal of this one day event is to bring together smart-city actors from industry, academia and cities to exchange about respective vision for smarter cities and related challenges, in particular introducing the research agenda of the CityLab@Inria Lab that is under creation.

Further, acknowledging the strong link of CityLab with the Inria@SiliconValley program, the event will be the occasion to bring together actors from both France and California, discussing ongoing and potential joint research opportunities in the area.

The event is organized around 4 sessions, each dedicated to a major smart city challenge,namely:

  • The city vision about smarter cities
  • The challenge of urban-scale sensing
  • The challenge of urban-scale data engineering
  • The challenge of democracy 3.0

See the workshop page on the Inria@SiliconValley Web page by following the link: Inria@SiliconValley

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CITRIS-Inria-PRIME: Partnership on Smart Cities Research and Open Innovation

Inria, CITRIS and PRIME strike a partnership to accelerate the development of ambitious research and experimentation initiatives on issues relating to urban centers. Mrs. Genevieve Fioraso, French Minister for Higher Education and Research, witnessed the signature of this Memorandum of Understanding. Researchers from Inria and CITRIS will expand their existing relationship and leverage PRIME’s network and programs on smart cities to lead this effort. The trio of experts will reach out to public and private organizations to expand the scope and implementation of their projects

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