The 2022 edition of the “Smart City Casablanca Symposium” was organized under the claim “Community Intelligence and Low-tech Innovation“. A strategic theme in relevance with the experiences of low-tech resilience generated by the citizens during the COVID-19 crisis from one hand, and given the importance of community intelligence in transitioning to a Smart City on the other hand.

This new edition of Smart City Casablanca Symposium aimed to explore relationship between citizens and low-tech technology to solve the major urban development and metropolization challenges. This year’s theme will be addressed under a three-pronged approach: urban, economic and ecological. The convergence of human and low-tech technology suggests the potential of collective intelligence in co-designing and co-constructing the smart city while mobilizing the appropriate tools, resources, goods and services.

Five topics were covered : bottom-up governance, community innovation, social entrepreneurship and socio-economic development, low-tech technology for citizens and finally, the ecological transition of cities and territories.

Therefore, to meet current and future challenges, cities must rely on community intelligence, including cooperation between public and private players. The issue is none other than identifying the city’s support for a low-tech approach which can lead to the transition towards greater sustainability and resilience. Thus, ensuring  cities where citizens are players, designers and catalysts of integrated territorial synergies.

The 2022 edition of the “Smart City Casablanca Symposium” was organized under the claim “Community Intelligence and Low-tech Innovation“. A strategic theme in relevance with the experiences of low-tech resilience generated by the citizens during the COVID-19 crisis from one hand, and given the importance of community intelligence in transitioning to a Smart City on the other hand.

This new edition of Smart City Casablanca Symposium aimed to explore relationship between citizens and low-tech technology to solve the major urban development and metropolization challenges. This year’s theme will be addressed under a three-pronged approach: urban, economic and ecological. The convergence of human and low-tech technology suggests the potential of collective intelligence in co-designing and co-constructing the smart city while mobilizing the appropriate tools, resources, goods and services.

Five topics were covered : bottom-up governance, community innovation, social entrepreneurship and socio-economic development, low-tech technology for citizens and finally, the ecological transition of cities and territories.

Therefore, to meet current and future challenges, cities must rely on community intelligence, including cooperation between public and private players. The issue is none other than identifying the city’s support for a low-tech approach which can lead to the transition towards greater sustainability and resilience. Thus, ensuring  cities where citizens are players, designers and catalysts of integrated territorial synergies.