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Nordic Countries and Medellín bet on Smart Cities
February 22, 2019 (Investorideas.com Newswire) The embassies of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway held the Smart Cities #ThinkNordic event in Medellín to share best practices with the public and private sector of the city.
ACI Medellín organized the call and articulated local organizations for the realization of this meeting.
- The event was attended by experts and companies from the four countries, who presented the opportunities for cooperation and investment in Medellín
- The embassies of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway held the Smart Cities #ThinkNordic event in Medellín to share best practices with the public and private sector of the city.
- ACI Medellín organized the call and articulated local organizations for the realization of this meeting.
- Experts and companies from the four countries attended the event and presented the opportunities for cooperation and investment in Medellín.
From left to right: Mogens Pedersen, Ambassador of Denmark; Catalina Restrepo Carvajal, Executive Director ACI Medellín; Tommy Strömberg, Ambassador of Sweden; and Jarmo Kuuttila, Ambassador of Finland.
The director of ACI Medellín, Catalina Restrepo, lead the opening act in the Smart Cities #ThinkNordic. This event sought to generate spaces for exchange Nordic knowledge and experiences from different approaches: sustainability, environment, mobility, energy, innovation, and technology. The best practices exposed by this board, respond to what diplomats and experts call Nordic thinking, a cultural model they have developed to analyze reality from cooperation and the creation of solutions for the challenges of life in the city.
The panelists aimed their presentations to culture and stressed that the Nordic way obeys to factors such as flexibility, prioritization, generation of incentives, equity, inclusion, and cooperation between the academia and the public and private sectors. These factors, rooted in the four countries, have made it possible to make progress which are global referents for smart cities.
Why Nordic Smart Cities chose Medellín?
The ambassadors agree that Medellín has made great progress as a smart city and has taken significant steps towards improving the quality of life of citizens, which is why it fits in with the Nordic governments' knowledge sharing objective.
In the words of the Finnish ambassador, Jarmo Kuuttila "by holding this meeting, we hope to promote a collaboration work between Medellín and our Nordic companies, public and private administration." In addition, from a more human perspective, their purpose is to make people's dreams come true and contribute to the creation of cities designed for the realization of their life projects.
ACI Medellín celebrates these spaces of knowledge with Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway, and reaffirms its commitment to take actions that lead to opportunities for the city and improve the quality of life of its inhabitants.
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