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CAIS again participating at the MENA Digital Summer School

MENA Digital Summer School 2023

On 28 September 2023, CAIS once again participated in the MENA Digital Summer School for practitioners from the MENA region. The Summer School is organised by the Candid Foundation and funded by the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia. The organisers are Prof. Ayad Al-Ani (Einstein Center Digital Future) and Daniel Gerlach (Candid Foundation).

28. September 2023

The MENA DSS is a hybrid event format that imparts up-to-date knowledge in the field of digital transformation. Based on case studies and through contacts in the field, participants can acquire skills during their stay in Germany that they can implement in concrete transformation projects in their home countries.

As in 2022, the CAIS was represented as the NRW Institute for Digitisation Research with a contribution on the topic of “Smart City”. In the Barmer Bahnhof in Wuppertal, Prof. Dr. Christoph Bieber, head of the research programme “Digital Democratic Innovations”, and his colleagues Jana Baum and Anne Goldmann, in their workshop “Reflecting the Smart City – MENA Region, Ruhr Area and beyond”, drew a bow from the Ruhr area via the MENA region to the USA in order to compare smart city concepts internationally. Through group work and in a discussion round with the participants of the Summer School, they entered into a dialogue about strategies and challenges of sustainable urban development.