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1. SPEAKER SESSION PLENARY 1: “DIGITAL URBAN: CITIZEN EXPERIENCE
IN SMART CITIES” BY MR. MARCUS FOTH, PROFESSOR OF URBAN
INFORMATICS, QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,
AUSTRALIA

Mr. Marcus Foth started his presentation being excited with the level of endorsement
of the event judging from the high turnout and participation of the government officials.

He explained that there are three main themes in his presentation namely Smart
Cities, Smart Citizens, and Citizen Participation and Engagement. He highlighted that

it is very important to understand the intersection of people, city and technology given

the fact that cities houses major world population today.

He reasoned how QUT Design Lab founded in 2006 initially to study the cyberspace

and research the visible infrastructure in the digital space; now plays significant role in

carrying projects that benefit the citizens through smart cities initiatives such as
community engagement, city designs, social science and humanities, computer

science and ICT, and building environment and architectures. Beginning 2012,

academicians and industry experts are getting more interested in the research and
further advancing the domain of smart cities, as shown in Figure 1. The aim of Urban

Informatics research is to examine, communicate and design how people, places,

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