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Question: Universities and smart cities

Answer: Quality is a generally recognised professional discipline with more than 100 years of modern successful evolution. Quality is imperative in all educational institutions for their benefits, and also the universities should follow the quality principles and practices that are applied globally in all kinds of organisations of our societies. This applies to all activity sectors of the universities including the education, research and societal collaboration. Universities also should act as advanced quality role models, and scientifically and educationally contribute to the development and dissemination of the quality philosophy and methodologies widely in the society. This however requires strive for excellence in the universities’ own development of quality integration.
Smart cities aim at the effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment in order to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens. Smart city projects are taking place through collaboration of many public and private organisations everywhere in the world. Participation in these projects is a big for the universities, where their strengths are multidisciplinary activity in education, research and societal cooperation, and the success can be ensured with the high quality and professional quality management of the universities.

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(Source: Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, 24 Mar 2020)