The announcement was made today at the end of a plenary meeting of the Council of Science and Technology (CCT), chaired by the head of the Macau government, Fernando Chui Sai On.
In June, a brief visit Macau, the founder and executive chairman of the group of Chinese e-commerce Alibaba, Jack Ma, so named CCT consultant, said he was confident in the development of the former Portuguese enclave as a “smart city”.
Frederick Ma Chi Ngai, who will chair the new subcommittee focused on making Macau a “smart city”, explained the jobs that have been made since the end of last year, including visits to companies or roundtables, indicating that the study program includes in particular the feasibility of “intelligent mobility”.
In this particular states that the Science and Technology Fund collaborated with the Services Directorate for Traffic Affairs to choose a more appropriate design, financing companies to develop ‘software’ for mobile phones and mobility solutions.
the CCT also invited institutions to study the different aspects of the idea behind a “smart city” is expected that next November, a call is launched for proposals dealing this area exclusively.
the new subcommittee will be responsible to review the nominations and choose the best suited, to report back within a year, said the vice president of the CCT, Peter Lam, at the end of the meeting, the .. journalists
“it’s a matter of applying technologies that exist to Macao situation for example, there was talk of the electronic pass in Hong Kong -. which gives to circulate in all transport [This] may be a possibility, “exemplified Rui Martins, vice-chancellor of University of Macau (UM) and CCT member.
” There is also information about transport, for example, the movement of buses, transit the relationship with car parks (…) “, stressed, indicating that a also has projects in this field and which was, incidentally, who developed a Macau electronic map provided by the city’s Tourist Office.
But there is also new in the pipeline. “We have several things to be developed under the ‘internet of things’, even we are trying to develop what is called ‘smart campus’” he said, indicating that this project – to try to use everything that is electronic to manage . university life – “can then be extrapolated to a normal city”
in addition to the group dedicated to “smart city” were created two more specialized subcommittees within the CCT: one dealing with research and other targeted for education and / or popularization of science.
Referring to the first, which will lead the Macao University vice-chancellor spoke of what it considers to be “a new phase of support” to the area of research, which will go to see how it can commercially exploit international patents produced by UM and the University of Science and Technology.
Speaking of the case of a in particular, Rui Martins indicated that about 30 approved patents, is in phase “organize ‘spin-offs’, which will be companies that will be created around students who recently doctorates and who worked in these patents to exploit its commercial activities” – not only in Macau but also in China and the rest of the world.
the third group, coordinated by former Member Ho Sio Kam, will basically continue the work of popularization of science, especially at schools.
DM // VM
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