Honours to be given in lieu of telecommunications innovation. Ayuntamiento of Valencia shows its support and motivation towards Smart City development, and mark the importance of telecommunications going forward.
This Friday Valencia hosts the Valencian Night of Telecommunications. An appointment that brings scholars and professionals, administrations and public companies in order to recognize individual and collective trajectories within the XXIII awards. Vice-mayor Sergi Campillo, and councillor of Agenda Digital Electronica, Pere Fuset were part of the jury that has decided the awards will attend on behalf of the Ayuntamiento de Valencia, in support of the Valencian telecommunications business ecosystem.
The awards will recognize the best master’s and bachelor’s degree projects in telecommunications engineering, outstanding members in the sector, young company and entrepreneurs, relevant companies, and public administration or non-profit organization that promotes Information Technologies and Communications (TIC). Considered criteria will consist of trajectories, milestones or industrial interest, innovations and/or materialization of different projects.
The Ayuntamiento De Valencia once again backs this initiative in an attempt to raise society’s awareness of the importance of digital technologies and the management of knowledge, thus supporting the Valencian business culture in its expansion. Furthermore, Valencia does so by emphasizing the Goals on Sustainable Development (ODS) urging the most relevant companies in the sector to indicate the keys that must be taken into account to achieve the 17 ODS for 2030, while marking the importance and key role telecommunications hold in achieving these goals.
“It is an honour to be present at the gala, here we must show the value telecommunications holds in Valencia and The Comunidad Valenciana… the important commitment Valencia has shown towards increasing its investment in innovation through entities such as Las Naves and the entire innovation ecosystem that we are launching in our city, in the Marina de Valencia, and the start-up of La Harinera and other services to entice the entrepreneurial ecosystem of our city,” says Campillo.
Campillo goes on to mention Valencias role as part of a working Smartcity subgroup in response to the Covid-19 pandemic of the Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones (UIT). “The well being of citizens is the epicentre in which all policies promoted by the municipal government in relation to digitalization converge,” says Fuset, recalling the UIT (a specialised agency for the United Nations for information and communication technologies) has already the results of the certification on the conversion of Valencia into a Sustainable Smart City available to the public. Thus consolidating Valencia as one of the first European and world cities to measure its progress in the ODS as a standardized smart city.
