Measurements on City Safety Approaches

Huawei, a global leader in ICT Solutions with rich experience in the area of safe cities and big data, is organizing this networking event together with the UN Habitat Safer Cities Programme, who are developing a White Paper on Indicators, Measurement and Big Data for Safer Cities. ­

The session will allow the sharing of best practices and challenges by cities on how they currently measure their safety and provide a forum for suggestions and input from stakeholders on the kind of indicators that could be included in the white paper as well as how to effectively that collect and analyse Big Data to improve urban safety.

Key notes
Ms. Christine Musisi, Director, External Relations, UN-HABITAT
Mr. Edwin Diender, Vice President, Huawei Technologies Co.

Panel presentations
Dr. Franz Vanderschueren, Director of the Center for Citizen´s Security, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (Chile) and Coordinator of Technical Advisers Team of the Global Network on Safer Cities
Dr. Junyong Choi, Urban planning & GIS PhD., Spatial Information Office, Korean Land and Housing Corporation, Republic of Korea
Dr. Kalpana Viswanath, Co-founder and CEO of Safetipin
Ms. Silvia Tamayo, Director of Happiness and Integral Citizenship Education, La Paz (Bolivia)
Ms. Mary Jane C. Ortega, Special Advisor, Y-PORT Center, City of Yokohama @ Special Advisor, CITYNET
Mr. Nicholas You, Consultant, Safer Cities Programme