Pieter Ballon
Pieter Ballon is a Belgian historian and communications scholar specializing in smart cities.[1][2][3][4] He is a Professor in Communication Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and holder of the university's academic Chair on Smart Cities.[5][6]
Career
[edit]Ballon is the director of SMIT (Studies in Media, Innovation and Technologies), a research group that is affiliated with VUB and IMEC, and the scientific director of the Knowledge Centre Data & Society.[7][8] He is also the co-founder of the international Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) network and of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL).[9]
Ballon was general coordinator of the Smart Flanders programme and was named the first ‘Smart City Ambassador’ for the Brussels Capital Region.[10]
Books
[edit]Ballon is the author of:
- De stad is een boek: Over slimme steden, technologie en literatuur [The city is a book: On smart cities, technology and literature] (Lannoo, 2019)
- Smart cities: Hoe technologie onze steden leefbaar houdt en slimmer maakt [How technology keeps our cities liveable and makes them smarter] (Lannoo, 2016)
References
[edit]- ^ Bossuyt, Thomas (26 May 2017). "Een slimme stad, wat is dat eigenlijk?". www.techpulse.be. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020.
- ^ "App Wappr bereidt Antwerpenaar voor op komst van slimme stad". www.demorgen.be. 2 November 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ Lammerse, Vivian (27 May 2016). "Smart city:hoort ook Amsterdam bij de steden van de toekomst". www.scientias.nl. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020.
- ^ Rousseau, Sebastien (7 March 2018). "Stad van sinjoren en sensoren". www.tijd.be. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020.
- ^ "Smart Cities". www.vub.be. Archived from the original on 2020-08-13. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ "Pieter Ballon". www.smit.vub.ac.be. Archived from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ Fierens, Michiel; Ballon, Pieter (December 2019). "Vision Paper: Knowledge Centre Data & Society". www.lirias.kuleuven.be.
- ^ "Moet wie 'De Warmste Week' bezoekt vrezen voor zijn privédata?". www.demorgen.be. 19 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-03-28. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ "SPEAKERS 2019". www.2019.futuresummits.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2020-03-02.
- ^ Ballon, Pieter (September 1, 2017). "Why privacy matters in push for smart nations". www.todayonline.com. Archived from the original on March 2, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Pieter Ballon publications indexed by Google Scholar
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