Pieter Ballon is a Belgian historian and communications scholar specializing in

smart cities A smart city is an urban area that uses digital technology to collect data and operate services. Data is collected from citizens, devices, buildings, or cameras. Applications include traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities ...

. He is a Professor in Communication Sciences at

Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dutch language, Dutch, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated VUB) is a Dutch- and English-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has four campuses: Brussels Humanities, Science and Engine ...

(VUB) and holder of the university's academic Chair on Smart Cities.

Career

Ballon is the director of SMIT (Studies in Media, Innovation and Technologies), a research group that is affiliated with VUB and

IMEC Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC; officially stylised as imec) is an international Research and development, research & development organization, active in the fields of nanoelectronics and Digital electronics, digital technologies ...

, and the scientific director of the Knowledge Centre Data & Society. He is also the co-founder of the international Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) network and of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL). Ballon was general coordinator of the Smart Flanders programme and was named the first ‘Smart City Ambassador’ for the

Brussels Capital Region Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

Books

Ballon is the author of: *''De stad is een boek: Over slimme steden, technologie en literatuur'' 'The city is a book: On smart cities, technology and literature''(

Lannoo Uitgeverij Lannoo Groep is a Belgian publishing group, based in Tielt, with assets in Belgium and the Netherlands. Its Belgian subsidiary is Uitgeverij Lannoo. Its Dutch subsidiary is LannooMeulenhoff. Over the years Lannoo evolved from Catholic ...

, 2019) *''Smart cities: Hoe technologie onze steden leefbaar houdt en slimmer maakt'' 'How technology keeps our cities liveable and makes them smarter''(Lannoo, 2016)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ballon, Pieter Belgian social scientists 21st-century Belgian historians Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Brussel Living people Year of birth missing (living people)