Were presented on Friday 14 October 2016 at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub of Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens, of the next steps of smart cities consortium.
The “consortium” is made up of the municipalities Athens, Thessaloniki κα<α<δαυστα id="t2"> Heraklei of Crete, the research group INFOSTRAG of the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economy (EBEO) of NTUA, the Organization of Open Technologies – EELLAK, the Association of Mobile Application Companies of Greece (SEKEE) and the Mobile Telephony Companies Association (
On behalf of SEKEE, Mr. Haniotis, member of the Board of Directors and CEO of Telenavis and the General Manager, Yiannis Kotsis-Giannarakis, participated. The event featured:
- Our axes of action, and activities related to Smart Cities and workshops on solutions to local government.
- The Greek booth at MWC, where the Municipalities and other bodies of smart cities consortium, were invited to participate,
- Our collaborative actions under the title SYNERGIES with the other innovative links (Aerospace, Microelectronics, Biomedical Technology, Startups, Open Software and EMIPEE), as well as
- Activities related to the concept of Smart Cities for the utilization of satellite data by citizens through mobile devices, such as the LDA where, within the framework of the project, applications were developed for the wider area of Athens.
- h Participation in international ESNC innovation competitions for 2 years, and
- The Thematic Workshops STEPS/THS, where the Consortium bodies participated
Best practices from international experience were also highlighted, including:
The event resulted in three proposals for Actions directly related to SSEKE:
1. To develop within the next quarter a pilot application to open data, which will be common to the three municipalities
2. To present the application and actions of the Consortium in MWC2017-Barcelona, where the possibility of participation of all three municipalities will be investigated
3. To ask the members of SEKEE to indicate sets of data that the Municipalities should immediately make available as well as services that they consider useful to be developed with them.
As many companies interested, contact Mr. Haniotis ([email protected]) – cc: [email protected], so that they participate in the planning of the relevant actions of SEKEE and Consortium.