In this episode of Massive cross domain data required for understanding Intelligent Urban Systems, Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler talks to Manvita Baradi about urbanization and its problems with increasing complexities, data has proved to be urban nervous system during the pandemic, along with the UHWB programme that has formulated principles in its Xiamen Call for Action in context of Intelligent Urban Systems, globally.

Dr. Franz W. Gatzweiler: Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Director of the International Council for Science’s global programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Gatzweiler studied Agricultural Science at Bonn University and International Agricultural Economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His doctoral research topic at Humboldt University was on the “Nature of Economic Value”. He received stipends from the German academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), and was visiting scholar at the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis in 2003. He teaches courses at the faculty of Life Sciences of the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of Bonn. Dr. Gatzweiler’s research interests lie at the intersection of ecological, economic and social systems and cover problems of value in complex socio-ecological systems, institutional change in polycentric organization, marginality and technology innovations for productivity growth in rural development, co-production of science and fractal organization theory. Currently Dr. Gatzweiler is Executive Director of the Global Interdisciplinary Programme on “Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Analysis Approach”, sponsored by the International Council of Science (ICSU), the United Nations University (UNU) and the Interacademy Medical Panel (IAMP).

Manvita Baradi is the Founder Director of Urban Management Centre – An organization working towards professionalizing urban management in India and in South Asia. She is the Founder Dean of the Faculty of Management at the CEPT University, designed and set up a 2-year post-graduate program in Urban Management (MUM). She has technical experience in developing and administering programs for Local Governments, capacity building of Local Government Associations, urban and regional planning, citizen participation, municipal performance measurement and international development. She is on the expert panel for Sanitation under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). She is the Head of the Technical Support Unit for the National Urban Livelihood Mission(NULM) of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and has been Team Leader Anchor for the HRIDAY mission city of Dwarka, Gujarat. She has also served as an expert on USAID, ADB, EU and World Bank funded programs for local governance, association development in India and in post conflict regions, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Srilanka.