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The Medellín Perspective on Open Innovation by Paola Pollmeier

Paola Pollmeier, business development and smart city strategist, came by Aarhus University and presented some of her learnings from working as an advisor in public innovation and smart cities in Medellín, Colombia

Paola Pollmeier has been working with citizen participation, public innovation and smart cities in Medellín, Colombia for the past five years. She brought a different cultural perspective on projects that are similar to the projects we carry out in the Centre for Digital Transformation in Cities and Communities.  

Currently Paola works as a consultant in business development and smart city strategist and is still situated in Medellín. Coming by the Centre for Digital Transformation in Cities and Communities at Aarhus University was part of a three months tour Paola is doing, travelling around Europe and Latin America and getting to learn new projects.