During representing the Iraqi Prime Minister and participating in the inauguration of the Fourth International Conference on Geographic Information Systems and Smart Cities, which was held by the National Security Advisory, His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr.  Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi praised such conferences, which raises significant storms about geographic information systems and smart cities and stimulates public and private sector institutions to be part of the comprehensive transformation aspect towards digitization of details and service governance in general.