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Brazil-China Post-Covid-19: The Digital City

  • Asia
  • 29 september 2020

Bilateral cooperation emerging from post-Covid-19 transformations brings challenges and opportunities, with the strengthening of digital cities standing out. This report presents the topics discussed in the webinar "Brazil-China post-Covid-19: The Digital City", held by CEBRI in partnership with the Embassy of China. Miguel Pinto Guimarães points out that "the future is being built by China over the last two decades at a fantastic growing speed that was made possible by planning, education, and intelligence". Chen Cai states that urban planning in large centers needs to be inclusive. "The objective of the smart cities is to have equality and services for everybody living in these cities, not only for some people."

Bilateral cooperation emerging from post-Covid-19 transformations brings challenges and opportunities, with the strengthening of digital cities standing out. This report presents the topics discussed in the webinar "Brazil-China post-Covid-19: The Digital City", held by CEBRI in partnership with the Embassy of China. Miguel Pinto Guimarães points out that "the future is being built by China over the last two decades at a fantastic growing speed that was made possible by planning, education, and intelligence". Chen Cai states that urban planning in large centers needs to be inclusive. "The objective of the smart cities is to have equality and services for everybody living in these cities, not only for some people."

Participants in this publication

Philip Yang
Senior Fellow

Founder of URBEM

Chen Cai
Director of Information and Technology at CAICT

Gao Changlin
Science and Technology Advisor at the Chinese Embassy in Brazil

Luciana Gama Muniz
Project Director

Marcelo Motta
Director of Solutions and Cybersecurity at Huawei Technologies

Miguel Pinto Guimarães
Architect and urban planner and partner at Miguel Pinto Guimarães Arquitetos Associados

Renata Fraga
Institutional Communications Coordinator

Washington Fajardo
Harvard Loeb Fellow and partner at Desenho Brasileiro Arquitetura e Design

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