Urban Innovators Global

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure to attend, interact and experience the IMAGINE (the Metaverse) event in Tampereen kaupunki - City of Tampere, Finland. Herewith my blog on why this event matters. Urban Innovators Global BABLE Smart Cities Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities (OASC)

Earlier this year I had the honor to contribute to the Police Innovation Leadership training, hosted in Dubai by Dubai Police, academically facilitated by Rochester Institute of Technology, Dubai (RIT Dubai). It turned out to be one of the most amazing training experiences ever steered in my career: 46 Police professionals from 31 different nations - from Poland to UAE, from Mauritius to Indonesia, from Ireland to USA. I was asked to organize a four day module on 'Policing the Smart City.' How does one design a course on this topic without it becoming a workshop on digital surveillance? What does it mean to be an effective leader in policing in our digitalized urban environments? What skills does it take? How does digital allow for a policing culture to become more pro-active rather than reactive only and how can that be organized? How does one design the safe neighborhood of tomorrow and what would that look like? If we step away from architecting a car-centric city, if we step away from taking the job of policing as the starting point, if only for a day, and ask police professionals to design a healthcare centric city, then what would that look like? What digital designs and tools beyond those of surveillance will change the role and nature of policing in the future, and how do we prepare for it? Joining me for a day in the course was Urban Innovators Global community member Knut Schoenfelder who is one of the leads designing the security strategy at #Neom in Saudi - fabulous to have him involved. Grateful to my friend, peer, co-author of the Arabic Edition of #ANewDigitalDeal, Dean of RIT Dubai Dr. Yousef M. Al-Assaf for having invited me in. And a large round of applause for Dubai Police for having had the vision, foresight and audacity to organize this immense, fully unique, multiple month program. See article below! https://lnkd.in/eMb94QY5 Urban Innovators Global BABLE Smart Cities Cities Today Institute Raffaele Gareri Rijn Platteel MRICS Abdalla Bassaleh @

Super proud and pleased to welcome three new members to the Urban Innovators Global community! Jannat M. Anoop J. and Khalil Tahssen Alkiswani - welcome! The best of the best, and the community is growing larger by the day. Please learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gvi7ZDSx Urban Innovators Global BABLE Smart Cities Thunderbird School of Global Management #urbaninnovation #smartcity Rijn Platteel MRICS Raffaele Gareri Davide Rota BLOXHUB The Smart City Association Italy

For close to a year we have been working in stealth mode, but here we are: URBAN INNOVATORS GLOBAL! Proud to be going live with our website today, www.urbaninnovators.global. Herewith a little blog to get the spotlights on the organization and the community: https://lnkd.in/ezGWKrvs Rijn Platteel MRICS Raffaele Gareri Davide Rota Marc Wesselink Tamlyn Shimizu Alexander Schmidt Dr. Yousef M. Al-Assaf Michael Pegues Adriana Defina Teppo Rantanen Ger Baron Mariela Atanassova Manuela Krull-Mancinelli Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D. Twan Vollebregt Ivan R. Shumkov, PhD Xander van der Heijden Jerry Hultin Jose Antonio Ondiviela Ph.D. Bernardo Scheinkman Guido Piccoli Katerina Zalamova, PhD Kees Jan Rietveld Almutasem Alkhateeb, MGM Sydney Scudder Lot Platteel David Lugo Robles, MGM Knut Schoenfelder Henk Korevaar Honorata Grzesikowska Fadi Hani Michal Tyra, PhD Jacob Taylor Caden L. Tom van Arman Dr Monica Kerrets-Makau Islam Bouzguenda, Ph.D.