Tag: Smart Cities

9th January 2017 Mumbai, India

Dr Michael Messenger

Dr Michael Messenger

Head of the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health

Exploring precision medicine at the India-UK Tech Summit

Dr Michael Messenger (Mike), Head of the Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health, was in India in November 2016. Leeds is one of the leading centres of excellence designated by the UK Precision Medicine Catapult (PMC) and is taking a whole-system city wide approach to bring the benefits of precision medicine and health to its population, […]

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31st March 2016 Beijing, China

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by Lin Yu

Beijing Science and Innovation Network

UK and China join hands on smart city development

According to figures released by the Chinese Academy of Social Science, by 2018 sixty percent of China’s population will live in cities. At the end of 2013 the figure was 51 percent (about 694 million people). Smart cities will be a vital driver of its urbanization; according to Chinese media, investment of 2 trillion yuan […]

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12th August 2015 New Delhi, India

by Jagori Dhar

Head - Press and Communications, UK Trade, Investment & Prosperity

Oliver Letwin: London committed in financing India’s journey to becoming an economic power

Investment, infrastructure, smart cities, bonds and financial services were the top agendas for Cabinet Minister and Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Letwin’s three day visit to India from 27-29th July. Mr. Letwin’s visit was the first visit by a British minister to India after the polls in the UK in May. Mr. Letwin carried the message […]

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15th August 2014 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

From Trash to Treasure

The British High Commission had an exhibition stand at the National Environment Conference on 13 August organised by Asia Inc Forum. The theme of our stand was from global to national to local action. To highlight the negative impact that unchecked climate change will have on the world, we displayed the Human Dynamics of Climate […]

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