CTG is the founding member of the Smart Cities, Smart Governments Research Practice Consortium. The Consortium is one of the outcomes from the Smart Cities Service Integration project, which is composed of international research teams made up of researchers and graduate students from the US, Canada, Mexico, and China. The mission of the Consortium will be to ensure the development of a robust smart cities and smart governments research and practice community.

The founding partners in the consortium are: (Pictured left to right): Juan Carlos Noriega (representing Marco Antonio Peres Useche from Externado University of Colombia); Lei Zheng (Fudan University, Shanghai, China); Sehl Mellouli (Université de Laval, Quebec City, Canada); Theresa Pardo (CTG, UAlbany/SUNY); J. Ramon Gil-Garcia (Data Center for Applied Research in Social Sciences, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico); and Adegboyega Ojo (Center for Electronic Governance, International Institute for Software Technology, United Nations University, Macao, China).

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