Meeting on "digital cities" on Spain Print
Written by Ixchel Pérez   

The XII Latin American Meeting on Digital Cities will take place in the town of Bizkaia, from 28 to 30 September. This event is organized every year with the goal of exposing and transferring good practices in implementing ICT in the management of Local Government and the services they provide to their citizens.

A digital city: a city where technologies foster new relationships between people, governments, businesses and all organizations. These cities are very important to the construction of the new information society and imply that all citizens have easy and fast access to communication networks and these are available throughout the territory.

To discuss this issue the Ibero-American Digital Cities takes place since 1998, an event of great global significance, which aims to share the progress on the modernization and construction of this kind of societies.

This year's meeting will be held in Bilbao, where for three days conference will be conducted to analyze the experiences in different geographical locations. In addition, there will be roundtable discussions for a direct exchange of knowledge and practice.

This time, the meeting was organized under the theme "digital city as a place of innovation and knowledge" in order to raise awareness about the importance of creating smart cities and territories vital for the social, economic and staff of its citizens.

"This is an international meeting point for professionals and experts where they can share and discuss, analyze and propose this development to build the future together", explains the event's official website, www.ciudadesdigitales2011.com, which also available information to participate.

The XII Latin American Meeting on Digital Cities is organized by the Iberoamerican Association of Research Centers and Telecommunication Enterprises (AHCIET) and the Provincial Government of Biscay, through the Foundation BiscayTIK.