Pieter Ballon is a Belgian historian and communications scholar specializing in

smart cities A smart city is a technologically modern urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect specific data. Information gained from that data is used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return ...

. He is a Professor in Communication Sciences at

Vrije Universiteit Brussel The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) () is a Dutch and English-speaking research university located in Brussels, Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is one of the five universities officially recognised by the Flemish Community, Flemish gov ...

(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) is an international research & development organization, active in the fields of nanoelectronics and digital technologies, with headquarters in Belgium. Luc Van den hove has served as President and ...

, 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 (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

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)