{"id":1491,"date":"2023-08-08T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=1491"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:26:02","slug":"michael-mulquin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/michael-mulquin\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mulquin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Mulquin
<\/strong>Chair, Smart Cities Systems Committee, International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n
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Michael has spent 25 years partnering with cities, rural areas, and industry on how technology can help neighbourhoods and cities work better. For the last eight years he has been focusing on the development and implementation of smart and sustainable city standards and has had the opportunity to learn from many experts in different Standards Development Organisations. He is technical author of two British Standards Institution publications: PD8100 Smart cities overview \u2013 Guide and PD8101 Smart cities \u2013 Guide to the role of the planning and development process. He is Chair of the IEC Smart Cities Systems Committee and is an active member of smart city standards work within ISO and JTC1. He was a member of the ITU-T Smart and Sustainable Cities Focus Group. He is Co-Chair of the IEC-ISO-ITU Joint Smart Cities Task Group. He is Principal Architect of the TM Forum\u2019s Smart City Maturity Model and is continuing to support the TM Forum\u2019s work related to smart cities. He received the TM Forum Outstanding Contributor Award in 2017. He is City Standards Associate with the Connected Places Catapult \u2013 the UK Government Innovation Agency for smart transport and smart cities and is a member of the UK Government External Advisory Group on Smart Cities and Connected Communities.\u200b\u00a0More widely, he is MIMs Ambassador for Open and Agile Smart Cities, supporting the development and implementation of their Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs). MIMs are simple, standards-based building blocks to enable even smaller cities to get started on using international best practice to become smart and deliver better results for their citizens.\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Chair, Smart Cities Systems Committee<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n\n

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