E-Governance for Smart Cities

E-Governance for Smart Cities.- E-Governance State of the Art Survey: Stuttgart, Germany.- E-Governance and Smart Cities: Cases of Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.- E- Governance and its role in infrastructure services of UAE, case study- Dubai.- E-Governance for Public Realm: Around Panniyankara Monorail Station, Kozhikode, Kerala.- Smart Systems and Smart Grids for effective governance of electricity supply in India.- E-Governance for Solar Photo Voltaic Powergrid: Solar City Gandhinagar Gujarat, India.- Can Smart City Be an Inclusive City?-Spatial Targeting (SI) and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).- M-Governance: Smart Phone Applications for Smarter Cities- Tapping GPS and NFC Technologies.- Participatory E-Budgeting using GIS based Spatial Decision Support System: Kozhikode Municipal Corporation.- Smart City E-Governance: Issues and Future.

Professor T. M. Vinod Kumar has 43 years of professional experience and has specialised in Urban and Regional Planning, Urban and Regional Infrastructure, Urban Environmental Management, Application of GIS in Urban Planning, Models in Planning , Urban Design and Smart Cities. He has vast consultancy experience all over India on urban and rural development, infrastructure, tourism, health care and in Malaysia on New Town Planning and Development, City centre and housing planning and Structure Plan. He has worked in Bhutan, China, Pakistan, Nepal and India for Energy for Mountain Development Program of International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development as Regional Program Coordinator. Academically he has worked in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi as Professor, Head of Department Urban Planning, Head of Centre for Analysis and Systems Studies, Head Centre for Urban Studies and finally Dean of Studies of School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He also worked as Planner-Engineer with the Ford Foundation; India. He was visiting Professor at Bandung Institute of Technology Indonesia, and now in National Institute of Technology, Calicut. He is the author of many books and journal articles and Project Manager for many consulting projects worldwide.