ENoLL President visits Beijing

ENoLL President Álvaro de Oliveira was invited to Beijing with the aim of developing ENoLL – Chinese strategic relationship in areas such as urban Living Labs, Smart City services, IoT, and where he met with Vice President of Beijing Academy of Science and Technology (BJAST).

ENoLL President Álvaro de Oliveira was invited to Beijing with the aim of developing ENoLL – Chinese strategic relationship in areas such as urban Living Labs, Smart City services, IoT, and where he met with Vice President of Beijing Academy of Science and Technology (BJAST).

BJAST is the largest local scientific research institute in China, directly belonging to Beijing Municipality. Furthermore, ENoLL President met with MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology in China) including BMSTC (Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Committee). Oliveira also gave a speech at the Global Internet of Things Conference 2010 on the importance of user-driven innovation in smart city environments.

As a result of the visit, on the 25th of November ENoLL signed a Memorandum of Understanding on City Administration and Public Service Innovation with Beijing City Administration Information System and Equipment Center (CAISEC) and an agreement of collaboration with the Ubiquitous Network Industry and Technology Development Forum (UNITED).

CAISEC and ENoLL are aiming to work cooperatively towards the next generation of innovation, which involves the user, to better city administration and public service. ENOLL and CAISEC hopes to benefit from practice of each other through closer cooperation on following domains and activities.

UNITED and ENoLL will cooperate in increasing communication and cooperation in IST fields, and setting up joint workshops and cooperative research and development projects on ubiquitous service, technology and product innovation and approaches oriented among other things to smart cities, energy and health.