[Press Release] Interview with the President of Le Temps, Yves Daccord, Welcoming as a Member of Seoul Smart City Prize Steering Committee
Interview Video
GENEVA – During WeGO’s visit in Geneva, WeGO had the wonderful opportunity to have a dialogue interview with the President of Le Temps, Yves Daccord.
Le Temps is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Geneva by Le Temps SA. It is the sole nationwide non-specialised daily newspaper of Switzerland.
Mr. Yves Daccord stated the significance of human-centered smart cities through the trust that resides among the citizens and city authorities. In virtue of fundamental entrustment, the responsibility lies in the mayor and citizens in cities to communicate and identify a space for community-specific issues.
As the Seoul Smart City Prize accentuates human-centeredness in the core theme, Mr. Daccord highly encouraged cities to join together to share notes and seek successful solutions. Mr. Yves Daccord and Secretary General of WeGO shared the importance of individuals in building safer and sustainable cities in the 4th industrial revolution era. Blessings were made for the launch of the Seoul Smart City Prize.
Yves Daccord, also serves as the Executive Chairman of Edgelands Institute which is the pioneering pop-up Institute incubated at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society to imagine the terms of new social contracts that work for cities and people in the age of pandemics and digital surveillance.
Yves Daccord is a renowned humanitarian leader, international strategist, influencer and changemaker. From 2010 to 2020 Yves was Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a global humanitarian organization employing 20,000 staff. A former journalist, TV producer and international relations expert. Yves co-chairs presently the #Principles4Peace initiative and is member of the Board of Trustees of ODI a leading global affairs think tank working to inspire people to act on injustice and inequality.
Click the link to watch the interview: https://youtu.be/_8ZUxDPkLx0
About WeGO
The World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO), is a membership-based international association of local governments, smart tech solution providers, and institutions committed to the transformation of cities into smart sustainable cities through facilitating public-private partnerships (PPP). WeGO was founded by 50 member cities in 2010 as the World e-Governments Organization, hence our acronym. In response to the evolving concept of smart cities, WeGO expanded its vision and mandate at the 7th General Assembly (2017) and its name to the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization. WeGO’s Secretariat is based in Seoul, Korea, and has regional offices in East Asia (Chengdu, China), the Mediterranean (Beyoglu, Turkey), Africa (Abuja, Nigeria), Middle East & North Africa (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Latin America (Cuenca, Ecuador), and Central Asia (Almaty, Kazakhstan). As the leading platform on smart city development, WeGO’s mission is to share knowledge and good practices in e-Governance; strengthen administrative efficiency and transparency; advance digital capacity; facilitate civic involvement; bridge the digital divide and inequality; and promote cooperation solidarity among cities and local governments around the world.
WeGO serves for its members as their international platform to improve the quality of life, innovate in the delivery of public services, and strengthen regional competitiveness.
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