Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 11:o0am (HKT), 10:00pm (EDT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom
Since the late 1990s, smart city projects have been implemented in all major economies, aiming to utilize ICTs to solve the problems of urbanization including transportation, housing, energy management, and the environment. Technology companies such as IBM, Cisco, and Siemens have partnered with cities to serve this market, estimated to be worth USD 500 billion. In this presentation, Dr. Jayakar will present his recent work on smart cities, including a quantitative analysis of specific programs included in smart city plans; the implications of smart city data management practices for data governance, consumer privacy, and digital sovereignty; and a historical analysis that locates smart cities projects as interfaces between local economies and transnational capital.
KRISHNA JAYAKAR is Professor of Telecommunications and Public Policy and the Head of the Department of Telecommunications in the Bellisario College of Communications at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He also serves as Co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and as Co-Editor of the Journal of Information Policy. His areas of research cover telecommunications policy and media economics, with a special interest in universal access to telecommunications. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Telecommunications Council, the Time Warner Cable Research Program on Digital Communications, the Media Democracy Fund, AT&T and others. In 2023, he published (with Chun Liu) a book titled Making Policy for the New Information Economy: Comparing China and India. Before joining academics, Dr. Jayakar was a research officer in India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
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Organised by:
- Centre for Media and Communication Research (CMCR), School of Communication
- David C. Lam Institute for East-West Study (LEWI), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
