Strategic foundation for smart city

Continuing the series of events at the 2018 WTA Summit, the Global Innovation Forum (GIF) 2018, Plenary Sessions I, II, III, with themes related to energy, sustainable environment, smart city building and innovative ecosystems. Attending the forum were Mai Hung Dung, Standing Member of Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee;  Tran Thanh Liem, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, representatives of the leaders of Daejeon City (Korea), WTA and experts and scientists from research institutes, universities and enterprises in the country and abroad.

Speakers deliver speeches at Global Innovation Forum 2018

At the plenary sessions, 15 speakers presented and discussed papers related to smart city infrastructure development strategies; opportunities and challenges of energy and environmental sustainability; build intelligent city platform and innovative ecosystem.

Strategies for smart city infrastructure development

At the forum, Professor Juergen Pietsch, University of Hamburg (Germany), shared the issue of climate change ecosystem. This is a challenge for the future, and there must be a green infrastructure strategy in which urban ecosystem services include air purification, climate change, and climate change. macro, micro. The benefits of these services are numerous for today's urban. However, the benefits of this service do not come alone but will go along with the risks and challenges, so need intelligent management, intelligent management in the city. According to him, need solutions based on nature, bring nature of nature, close to our current urban.

Concluding this, he says there are many green infrastructure initiatives that need to combine potentials, as well as smart tools; No intelligent city without smart infrastructure.

According to Rob Van Giel, former mayor of Eindhoven, the smart city is a partnership, a belief that meets the social needs of the challenges we face. He outlined the cooperation programs - technology - business - human, in which not only businesses but also the people also benefit. He said that before the challenge of rapid change of the world needed experiments on new products, new ways and if fail, then we have to accept and can not rely on the past development to set the law the future ...

At the Plenary Session II, speakers presented the current challenge of increasing demand and supply of primary energy such as coal, oil and gas, which are depleting. In fact, it is imperative that environmental protection becomes a pressing need for the implementation of an energy security strategy linked to sustainable development. To address this problem, according to speakers, cities around the world have built new models of interactive cities that save 50% of their energy; intelligent lighting system can connect management, remote processing; Models using renewable energy sources, especially solar power and green solutions in smart cities in Europe ...

Discussion on the "Opportunities and Challenges of Energy and the Sustainable Environment," Prof. Tran Quoc Tuan, Director of Research and Scientific Management, National Institute of Solar Energy (France), presented. on the situation of energy development in Vietnam; the issue of renewable energy development in Vietnam. According to him, Vietnam needs solutions and should develop renewable energy in the future.

Binh Duong Smart City foundation

Speaking on the issue of intelligent cities and the environment, Sergio Arzeni, president of the Italian Small and Medium Business Organization, former director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD), there should be criteria for Vietnam in innovation to help Vietnam escape the trap of average income. In addition, Vietnam needs to attract investors in the development of business incubators and large projects, while supporting small and medium enterprises.

Bui The Duy, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, mentioned that not only science and technology serves the smart city development, but the smart city itself becomes ecological and environmental. Let the ecosystem help the environment grow, more intelligent. He said the government is currently focusing on strategic public-private partnership co-financing. Thus, only the leader of the government creates the mechanism, the private entity that will create this intelligence.

Mr. Duy said, Binh Duong will be very convenient for the deployment of this model; At the same time, sharing the issue of innovation, ecosystems start-ups are spreading throughout Vietnam and receive the attention of countries around the world. He hoped the conference would spread this issue and grow stronger.

Discussion at the meeting, Mai Thanh Phong, President of Ho Chi Minh City Polytechnic University, said that Binh Duong is in the process of building intelligent cities, so can learn the trend of the city Japan's intelligence, which focuses on energy issues with different modes and management, different scales, factors of participation from the beginning of innovation. Sharing innovative ecosystems, he says, needs to reorganize the ecosystem with a different perspective, with three main components, the public sector, the private sector and the people. He also wants to emphasize the important role of the public sector in the development of innovation. According to him, Binh Duong province is a suitable place to discuss and develop intelligent cities, innovative eco-business.

Reported by Phuong Le – Translated by Vi Bao