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The most innovative building
The ‘Scion Innovation Hub – Te Whare Nui o Tuteata’ project of New Zealand secured the award in the category of the Most
Beautiful, Innovative and Iconic Building.
This project is poised to transform the landscape with its vision to reimagining the headquarters of the prestigious Sion Research
Institute, which specialises in technology development for forestry. Located on the outskirts of Redwoods in the magnificent
Whakarewarewa Forest, the primary goal of this project is to bring together a workforce that was previously dispersed across various
small buildings across the campus, in a central innovation hub. It also seeks to improve the Sion Institute’s public interface by
building a new campus arrival point.
Best urban food systems project

The ‘EatCloud Zero Food Waste – Zero Emissions – Zero Hunger’ project of Colombia has been awarded the Best Practices Award
in ‘Sustaining Urban Food Systems’. The project is led by EatCloud, a start-up company that is currently redistributing the largest
portion of unsold food globally. The company’s major objectives include using data-driven solutions to reduce food waste, combat
hunger, and help the environment.
The digital platform helps avoid food waste and redistribute unsold food to combat hunger on a large scale. They create an
exceptional social and environmental impact by automating the management of excess food using artificial intelligence (AI), which
results in significant cost savings in logistics and offer tax benefits.
Best pollution reduction project
The ‘Gree Energy (The Hamparan Project) - Avoiding methane emissions from a cassava starch factory and generating clean
energy’ won the Best Practices Award in the category of Addressing Climate Change and Reducing Pollution.

As part of the project, Gree Energy offers solution for the cassava starch factory Hamparan, which was previously encountering
problems, including unreliable electricity and methane emissions from wastewater treatment. The company was able to successfully
convert the produced biogas into electricity, which reduced harmful emissions and improved the local community’s water quality. It
further contributes to the global food supply chain and encourages sustainable development in rural areas.
Best urban management project
The Local Area Development Plan (LADP) of Egypt has been awarded the Best Practices Award in ‘Urban Infrastructure Planning
and Management’. The LADP seeks to develop a detailed blueprint for the many informal areas in the Greater Cairo. The goal is to
highlight the importance of stakeholder participation in the decision-making process and forge a strong connection between the
planning phase and service execution.
Three different projects of the suggested plans have been executed. These plans involve revamping the fish market, renovating a
school, and transforming an open canal into a park, as well as paving the roads in various areas.
Dubai Municipality as smart city partner
Dubai Municipality is participating as the smart city partner in the 11th edition of the World Government Summit. During this edition,

the Summit features more than 4,000 participants, renowned thought leaders, international experts, 120 government delegations, as
well as over 85 international and regional organisations, in addition to various other global institutions. The primary goal of this edition
of the Summit is to explore the most important problems impacting the modern world as well as the opportunities and challenges that
lie ahead.
Furthermore, the Summit explores numerous methods for achieving shared goals to progress government efforts, enhance
collaboration among global governments, share insights, and highlight successful examples and approaches in government work that
have made a positive impact in their respective nations and communities.

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