臺北市政府與電腦公會首度攜手合作並列為「2016智慧城市展」共同主辦單位，展現推動智慧城市建設的決心！同時也盛大舉辦「智慧城市首長高峰會」，北市政府將和國內外十餘個城市代表分享「臺北市智慧城市建設的規劃藍圖」，同時也將與法國、美國、荷蘭、以色列及捷克等多位城市首長共同簽署「智慧城市臺北宣言」，與全球領導性城市共同承諾實踐城市智慧治理的願景。

台北市電腦公會表示，2016智慧城市論壇暨展覽將於3月22日在南港展覽館盛大展開為期四天的活動，臺北市政府與台北市電腦公會並列為共同主辦單位，此項舉措非常罕見。臺北市政府希望與產業界共同攜手合作，透過這個國際化的會展平台，與全球各地的城市首長共同思考如何以城市治理的角度創建智慧化的城市，並進一步將城市開放為產業價值鏈整合的試煉場域，引導產業以解決方案整廠輸出的模式，在打造宜居城市，市民賦權參與的同時，也達到產業升級的雙贏效益。

臺北市政府林欽榮副市長指出，此次參與的城市首長是歷年來人數最多且層級最高第一次，包括:法國Grenoble區長Christopher Ferrari(相當於省長職)、美國Orlando市長John Hugh Dyer、荷蘭Eindhoven市長Rob van Gijzel、捷克Pisek副市長Josef Knot、以色列Tel Aviv副市長Asaf Zamir、另外還有芬蘭Helsinki、英國Bristol、西班牙Catalonia 、義大利Lazio等城市有關智慧城市建設的局處首長、南非商工總會理事長等一同參加；這些國際城市的代表除了參與「智慧城市首長高峰論壇」分享發展經驗外，同時這些城市首長也率領許多企業來訪，並將於各項活動中進行交流，期能促成具體合作事項。同時也邀請台灣城市首長鄭文燦、林佳龍、賴清德及黃健庭共同在高峰會中與談。

台北市電腦公會表示，臺北市政府自來水處的「打造智慧水表聯網、創新市民智慧生活」、資訊局的「臺北市政府開放資料X公民協作」、「i-Voting~投下你的聲音－美好的城市由全民一同打造」獲得由本會舉辦智慧城市創新應用獎的優勝作品，相關業務局處首長也在開幕式中出列領獎。此外，臺北市政府願景館，共計集結了八個局處為民服務的智慧服務項目共同展示，展現「以物聯網建設智慧城市」的決心。

目前臺北市政府正在運用新一代的物聯網IoT通訊技術鋪設全臺北市的「物聯網IoT實驗平台」，供產業界所研發的各種IoT創新應用都可以在此實驗平台上試鍊，此舉對於發展中的物聯網應用朝商業化發展有非常大的助益。
臺北市長柯文哲也將於3月22日下午在南港展覽館舉辦「空氣盒子」發表記者會，此項設備將與產業界合作廣泛的在臺北市鋪設，此項官方與民間合作的IoT應用將可偵測台北大氣中的霧霾及各種危害因此，透過大數據分析可供市政府提出有效的因應方案。更重要的官方與民間共同合作的創新應用模式，若能成功導入創造民眾的福祉，將激勵更多的IoT創新應用導入政府部門。

For the first time, the Taipei City Government together with Taipei Computer Association (TCA) is co-hosting the 2016 smart city summit & expo showing its determination on developing smart city infrastructure. Smart city Mayors’ Summit will also be grandly hosted during the expo in which the city government will share its blueprints of smart Taipei city infrastructure to ten city representatives form home and aboard. In the meantime, the government will be joined with city leaders form France, U.S.A., the Netherland, Israel, Czech Republic and many other cities at the announcement of the Smart City Taipei Declaration, together with the leading cities in the globe, to further commit to the realization of smart city.

TCA states that the four-day event of the 2016 smart city summit & expo will be grand open on March 22^nd in Nangang Exhibition Hall; and on this special occasion that the Taipei City Government co-host the event. The city government would like to take this opportunity of international platform to work with the industry and brainstorm with city leaders around the world on how to build a smart city on the prospective of city governance. To take a step further, the Taipei government would like to open the city as integrated trail fields for industry value chain, guiding the Taiwanese industry to export as integrated solution, in order to achieve the win-win situation for both industry upgrade and building livable city with citizen involvement.

Charles Lin, deputy mayor of Taipei City, indicated that this edition of the event is the biggest on the scale of participants as well as the level of attendees, including Christopher Ferrari, president of Grenoble-Alpes in France; Rob van Gijzel, mayor of Eindhoven from the Netherland; Asaf Zamir, deputy mayor of Tel Aviv, Israel; Josef Knot, deputy mayor of Pisek of Czech Republic; along with smart city planner from Helsinki, Bristol, Catalonia and Lazio and president of SACCI from Republic of South Africa. Taiwanese city leaders including Motto Cheng (鄭文燦), Chia-Lung Lin (林佳龍), Ching-Te Lai (賴清德) and Justin Huang(黃健庭) are also invited to the summit to share.

TCA also mentioned that the 2 cases of Taipei IT Department and 1 case of Taipei Water Department have won the Innovative Applications Award organized by TCA; the related directors will be at the awarding ceremony which is concluded in the opening ceremony of the Expo. In addition, Taipei City Vision Pavilion rallies 8 departments to showcase their smart citizen services, demonstrating the resolution of building smart city on IoT.

Currently, Taipei City Government is building infrastructure of new generation IoT communication technology throughout the city. The innovative IoT applications are welcomed to trial on the field. The City Government believed that it will be beneficious to IoT application become commercialized.

Mayor Ke, in the afternoon of March 22^nd at the Nangang Exhibition Hall, hosted the press conference of the announcement of “Air Box”. This device will be widely implemented in Taipei City, detecting haze and air pollution in the city. With the analyst of the data, the government will sure be able to come out effective solution of such problem. More importantly, if succeed, the cooperation mode between governmental and nongovernmental will definitely incentive more IoT implement to the government sector.