The ECOCITY FORUM 2018 "Circular Economy in Smart Cities" is a Multilateral Mega Event, focusing on the dissemination of the collective global knowledge on circular economy issues, as well as on raising public awareness and mobilizing national and regional administration towards interconnectedness of today’s global challenges. The Forum will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece.

The Conference organization involves assembling a broad spectrum of thinkers and doers in an environment that is both intellectual, as well as experiential, including best practices and models already implemented.

SMURBS will present a key note speech in the ECOCITY FORUM 2018, offering a broader view on the Earth Observation domain in the smart city context and finding linkages with circular economy.

The modest aim of this conference is to raise awareness about the importance of building sustainable partnerships between official statistics, municipalities, academic institutions, citizens and businesses. Only then we can maximize the potential of data analytics for informed policy decisions on cities and, for the wellbeing of the people living, working and / or visiting them, and for the operation of the businesses with activity in and with them.

Smart Statistics can be seen as the future extended role of Official Statistics in a world impregnated with smart technologies. Smart technologies involve real-time, automated, interactive technologies that optimize the physical operation of appliances and consumer devices. Statistics themselves would then be transformed into a smart technology embedded in smart systems that would transform "data" to "information".

SMURBS is invited to present his own prespective and outcomes extracted so far.

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