The head of Smart City Center of Qom Municipality announced that the four-year achievements on the Smart City programs have been presented at the International Conference of Smart Cities 2020 in Bucharest, Romania.

Referring to the 8th International Conference on Smart Cities 2020 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, Homayoun Yazdanpanah said that this scientific and research conference was held by the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Bucharest with the support of the European Union.

This year, the Bucharest International Conference on Smart Cities 2020 was held in a webinar due to the coronavirus restrictions, Yazdanpanah added.

He stated that: “In this conference, which was organized virtually with the presence of various scientific, academic and political figures from different countries of the world, I, as one of the key speakers at the opening of this conference, while briefly introducing Qom as an international city and one of the significant and holy megacities of Iran, presented the road map of the city on the path of making it smart.

The municipality official noted that in this international conference, we also presented the achievements of the four-year smart city of Qom and the activities and measures that have been taken.

He reiterated that the issues of expanding the electronic communications infrastructure in Iran and optical fiber in Qom, security risk management, and investment opportunities in the smart city of Qom were among the important topics that were proposed at this scientific conference.

Yazdanpanah pointed out that also, important measures taken to design the indigenous model of the smart city of Qom, applications that were prepared, the development of GIS and SDI of the city, and the invitation to invest in this city are among the other main issues that were discussed in the conference.

“Smart Qom” is the program to transform Qom into a more sustainable and livable smart city for all citizens, businesses, start-ups, public and private sectors.

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