{"id":3806,"date":"2026-04-27T13:27:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:27:33","slug":"another-invitation-another-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/2026\/04\/27\/another-invitation-another-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER INVITATION, ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303-694x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303-694x1024.jpeg 694w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303-203x300.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303-768x1133.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303-1041x1536.jpeg 1041w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303-624x920.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/881\/2026\/04\/IMG_5303.jpeg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANOTHER INVITATION, ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, opportunities come from places you didn\u2019t specifically plan for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was invited to join the&nbsp;<strong>Technical Committee Board<\/strong>&nbsp;for the&nbsp;<strong>African Smart Cities &amp; Innovation Congress 2026 (ASCIC 2026)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international platform that brings together researchers, policymakers, and industry players in smart cities, AI, IoT, big data, and urban innovation. The event will be held in La\u00e2youne, Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What makes it even more interesting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morocco is geographically part of Africa, but culturally and historically it also connects strongly with the Arab world and Europe. It sits at a unique crossroads of regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morocco is home to Fes, where the&nbsp;<strong>University of Al Quaraouiyine<\/strong>, founded in 859 AD, is widely recognized as among oldest continuously operating university in the world. A strong reminder that knowledge and scholarship have deep roots there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, invitations like this are more than recognition. They come with responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When there are limited experts in a specific niche, invitations tend to come more often. With that comes the responsibility to contribute, review rigorously, and help safeguard academic quality not just locally, but globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking forward to contributing to this international effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#AcademicLife #SmartCities #ResearchCommunity #PeerReview #GlobalCollaboration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANOTHER INVITATION, ANOTHER RESPONSIBILITY&nbsp; Sometimes, opportunities come from places you didn\u2019t specifically plan for. I was invited to join the&nbsp;Technical Committee Board&nbsp;for the&nbsp;African Smart Cities &amp; Innovation Congress 2026 (ASCIC 2026). An international platform that brings together researchers, policymakers, and industry players in smart cities, AI, IoT, big data, and urban innovation. The event will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,13,444],"tags":[24,112,33,44],"class_list":["post-3806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internationalization","category-research","category-reviewer","tag-3d-city-modelling","tag-3d-gis","tag-3dgis","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/mduznir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}