The Theme of GO SMART Pavilion –A Smart City with Open Source and Sharing

From March 22 to March 25, GO SMART (Global Organization of Smart City) is holding its own Pavilion showcasing projects collection at the Smart City Summit & Expo (hereinafter as SCSE), which includes the finalists and winners of the 2021 and 2022 GO SMART Award, close to 20 outstanding smart city projects from around the globe. GO SMART Pavilion, the Smart City Generative!

This year GO SMART invites following members to exhibit at GO SMART Pavilion: UnaBiz, AQUIVIO, Grenoble Alpes, ARK. The UnaBiz provides IoT solutions, including product design, software and communication services. The AQUIVIO offers healthier and personalized drinks, reducing plastic waste by every pour. Grenoble Alpes is one of most innovative ecosystems in the world for digital technologies, new energy, and smart cities fields. The ARK is a Taiwanese team with the tech-core of 3D display technology patents, targeting the needs of museums, artworks, and online museums. In addition, SurveyCake is an enterprise-level cloud survey service that focuses more on the questionnaire execution and interprets data into meaningful insights.

2022 GO SMART Award (GSA), entering its 4th year. Over the past 3 terms, more than 120 outstanding projects have been submitted from more than 30 cities (e.g. Amsterdam, Da Nang, Gdynia, Moscow, Prague, Taipei, etc.). This year GSA attracted 42 projects from over 20 cities. Here are the 4 categories of criteria for GSA panelists’ assessment: Cross-domain, Impact, Functionality and Innovation. This award aims to highlight the success of teamwork through collaboration, especially for teams that demonstrated diversity with stakeholders’ engagement from different domains. GO SMART Award invites several international smart city experts to serve as judges. After diversified and professional review, projects were selected to the second-round evaluation of the online pitching. This year GSA have 3 winners, and 2 special awards. The “I3 Systems and the City of Los Angeles" from the US; "Taipei Urban Intelligence Center" from Taiwan and "Qlue Smart City Project: Alam Sutera Intelligent Mobility System" from Indonesia are the winners. "New Taipei City Virtual Ward Platform" from New Taipei City Information Management Center gets the Promising City Project Special Award and "Remote Services for Assistive Technology Amidst the Pandemic" from New Taipei City Social Welfare Department wins Human Centric Special Award this year.

This year GO SMART invites following members to exhibit at GO SMART Pavilion: THINKTANK, ARK and RewardinMe. The THINKTANK provides A.I. ecosystem for smart cities solutions, including data analysis and system integration, especially cross-departmental coordination. The ARK is a Taiwanese team with the tech-core of 3D display technology patents, construction of image-based virtual environment, and detail display. RewardinMe offers a subscription model which can proactively engage customer through games and build meaningful database for running an amusing marketing.

GO SMART Day, the annual celebration of GO SMART (Global organization of smart cities), with two sessions of general assembly and award ceremony, is always held during the Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE) Taipei. This year, GO SMART Day 2023 was successfully concluded on March 29 at the PLACE Taipei. We conducted the General Assembly through online broadcasting in the afternoon, and the physical Award Ceremony with more than 100 guests attending the reception in the evening. Taipei City Mayor Chiang extended his warm welcome to the guests from afar at the opening of the General Assembly and presented the trophies to the five award winners at the ceremony. The event attracted international smart cities experts, operators and stakeholders to interact, share and learn with one another. Indeed, it’s a very fruitful gathering.