FIWARE Partnering with the NIST Global City Teams Challenge 2016

[Monique Calisti]

  * *Origin*:FIWARE MUNDUS/FI-LINKS
  * *Topic*: FIWARE Partnering with the NIST Global City Teams Challenge
    2016
  * *Objective*: Advertise the initiative - in view of the November
    workshop (see below the text) - by posting a news item in the FIWARE
    portal and twit about it once news online from the FIWARE social
    media channels
  * *Copytex*t:
  * FIWARE <https://www.fiware.org/>is partnering with the Global City
    Teams Challenge 2016 programme, GCTC2016
    <https://www.us-ignite.org/globalcityteams/>, which is being
    organised under the lead of the U.S. Department of Commerce's
    National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). FIWARE and
    GCTC shares common objectives to provide cities and their
    stakeholders with an environment and a programme that can help them
    replicate smart cities solutions and services that are efficient and
    scalable, as announced
    <http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/nist-global-city-teams-challenge-aims-to-create-smart-cities.cfm>on
    16 September by NIST.

    FIWARE participates in GCTC2016 with the goal of showcasing the
    benefits coming from the adoption of common "de facto" standard
    technologies in and for smart cities that FIWARE has been developing
    over the last few years. Global de facto standards for portability
    and interoperability will indeed contribute to the creation of a
    truly sizeable market for smart city services, where developers and
    solution integrators can invest with a global outlook on sustainable
    business models.

    FIWARE provides an open source implementation of the key standards
    promoted by the Open and Agile Smart Cities initiative
    <http://oascities>, which currently groups together more than 60
    cities in 12 different countries.

    Through its participation to GCT2016, FIWARE also contributes to
    build up and strengthen sustainable innovation ecosystems,
    leveraging on its valuable experience in engaging with relevant
    players at the European <https://www.fiware.org/mundus-region/>and
    international level <https://www.fiware.org/mundus/>.

    Besides FIWARE, several other leading partners worldwide have been
    engaged, including US Ignite <https://www.us-ignite.org/>, a
    non-profit organization focused on the creation of next-generation
    Internet applications that provides transformative public benefit,
    who has also been working along with FIWARE during the last year,
    and several private and public partners from USA, The Netherlands
    and Korea.

    FIWARE is now starting to prepare the next GCTC2016 Event, a 2-days
    workshop being organised in November 12 and 13, 2015, at NIST’s
    Gaithersburg, MD - registration to the 2 days workshop is now open
    <http://www.nist.gov/cps/global-cities-team-challenge-2015.cfm>.

    Stay tuned on the FIWARE channels for more information to come soon!

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  * *Mentions*: @FIWARE_Mundus @US_Ignite @FIware
  * *Hashtags*: #GCTC2016 #OASC #smartcities
  * *Deadline*: ASAP, today if possible
  * *Channels*:
      o News [x]
      o FIWARE Social media [x]


-- 
Dr. Monique Calisti
Partner, Executive Director
Martel Consulting
Dorfstrasse 73	Phone:	+41 (0)76 321 39 81
3073 Gümligen	Fax:	+41 (0)31 994 25 29
Switzerland	monique.calisti at martel-consulting.ch

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