The document describes the Smart Citizen Kit project by Waag, an institute that explores emergent technologies and opens them for societal use. The project involves distributing sensor kits to citizens of Amsterdam to collect environmental data and engage residents in understanding and influencing the workings of their city. An initial pilot with 100 kits provided insights that will inform expanding the project to 500 kits and citizens, with the goal of creating a testbed for businesses and developing new data analysis and visualization tools.

1. SMART CITIZEN KIT
Artistic Research, Critical Design & Social Innovation
BIG DATA AND SMART CITY
Taipei 18th. Nov. 2014
Mieke van Heesewijk Program Developer
@miekevh / mieke@waag.org

2. RESEARCH & DEVELOP
TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION

3. • Institute for Art, Science &
Technology
• Since 1994, 45 FTE, based in
Amsterdam
• Artistic research, critical design &
social innovation
• Exploring emergent technologies
and opening them for society

4. Technology
• For self expression
and communication
• Linking people,
groups, communities
• Sharing thoughts,
blueprints, algorithms
• Reflecting &
understanding
And discovering it’s
underlying meaning.

5. DNA
art
is
research
new combinations
code
is
culture
users as
designers
learning by
making
critical design
if you can’t
open it,
you don’t
own it

6. Structure
waag research
labs
Creative
Learning
Creative Care
Future Internet
Open Design
Open Wetlab
Urban Reality
academy
Fab Academy
FabSchool
Minors
PhDO
waag open
events
Bootcamps
Talks
Festivals
Contests
makers
guild
Fablab A’dam
Wetlab
Culture Grid
facilitations
Workshops
Trainingen
products
Fairphone
7scenes
City SDK

7. Labs
Open Design Lab
Wet Lab Creative Care Lab
Future Internet Lab
Creative Learning Lab
Urban Reality Lab

8. invention - creation - innovation
invention
curiosity driven research
creation
context driven research
innovation
transformation research

9. Users as Designers

10. Free research is motor for innovation
impact
Events
Making
publications
Research
methods
education
advice
DIY products

11. Activities Services
• Linking arts, science, technology society in
research programmes
• Human centered product development
• Facilitating innovation processes
• Consultancy, workshops brainstorms
• Visualizations, demonstrators prototypes
• Incubating products
• Organizing events competitions
• Academy programme

12. Results

13. Labyrinth Psychotica
Jennifer Kanary: http://www.labyrinthpsychotica.org/

14. Bodyguard

15. Fairphone

16. Fablab Amsterdam

17. Health Living Lab

18. OPEN
SOURCE / CONTENT / DATA
HARDWARE

20. Network Effect of the Internet
Bottom-up
grassroots
Open source, open
data, open hardware,
open knowledge, P2P,
e-democracy
CAPS, DSI, web
entrepreneurship
Distributed
Commons Competition
Top down
systemic approaches
European Innovation
Partnerships, Smart Cities,
FI-PPP; Cloud strategy,
challenge.gov eHealth,
eGovernment
Central

21. Data Driven Ecology Trends
Open Networks
Innovative combinations of network solutions
and infrastructures, e.g. sensor networks, free
interoperable network services, open Wifi,
bottom up-broadband, distributed social
networks, p2p infrastructures
Open Data
Innovative ways to capture, use, analyse, and
interpret open data coming from people and
from the environment
Open Knowledge
Co-production of new knowledge and crowd
mobilisation based on open contents, open
source and open access
Open Hardware
New ways of making and using open hardware
solutions
Emergent tools/
methods
• Apps
• Alternative currency
• Citizen science
• Cloud
• Collaborative
consumption
• Crowdfunding
• Crowdsourcing
• Crowdmapping
• Crowdcampaining
• Citizen Journalism
• Data Visualization
• DIY
• DIY Bio
• E-petitions
• Geotagging
• Online learning
models
• Online notice board
• Online market place
• Personal monitoring
• P2P
• Peer support
• Social networks
• Etc, etc....
Classification towards creating a data-driven Ecology suggested by MIT, Bollier and Clippinger 2013

22. 3D Printing
http://waag.org/en/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens

23. 3D Printing

24. Open source houses

25. Open source cars

26. SMART CITIZEN KIT

27. ECOSYSTEM AMSTERDAM

28. http://www.amsterdam.nl/kunst-cultuur-sport/werkplekken/broedplaatsen/broedplaatsenkaart/

29. Ecosystem Amsterdam I
Culture
• Netherlands, Amsterdam
especially, is full of
networkers, wanting to
collaborate for mutual benefit
• Players are to-the-point, direct,
mostly non-political
• Short lines between
different kinds of
stakeholders
• Sometimes: looking for too short-term
effect
• So: need to find the rights partners
that want to innovate with you
Policy
• Feedback loops from civil society
companies do exist.
• Amsterdam invites people in and
helps to organise
• Keen eye for bottom-up
development, and
connecting to bottom-up
developers
• Policy mindset is favourable to
novelty and innovation.
• A lot is learned from
international cooperation

30. Ecosystem Amsterdam II
Support
• There is a very active layer
of support structures
available:
Non-governmental institutions
• Foundations
• Funding agencies
• Accelerators
• Knowledge institute
• Civil society groups
• Over 60 innovation hubs
• The culture is informal, which
makes professionals easy to access
• The internet, business financial
support structures are well
developed
Markets
• Amsterdam is the Netherlands
most important vibrant creative
design hub
• Lots of startups
• Some large companies (TomTom,
Guerilla Games, Philips, Shell)
• Lots of business clubs, networking
agencies
• Openness to disruptive
innovation (Uber, AirBNB)
• However: there is not a
Silicon Valley start-up
culture (yet)

31. Ecosystem Amsterdam III
Human Capital
• A large number of talented
and motivated individuals is
available
• Many (Eastern Europeans, Chinese
Indians) come to study in NL
• Open, tolerant atmosphere
• Short ties to educational
research institutions
• Actors are generally good at
networking
• Entrepreneurship skills mindset
starting to become bigger
Finance
• Top-sector Creative Industries
• Government invests in accelerators
• Crowd-funding becomes available
• Funding for collaborations
between universities and
companies
• Tax reduction in innovation
• Tax reduction for start-up
companies
• European funding for start-ups
and large integrated
projects

32. Partners

33. Ecosystem actors
• Peers
Forum Virium, FutureEverything, FING, Ars Electronica,
I2Cat, Fablab network, Nesta, Young Foundation, ..
• Cities
Amsterdam, Helsinki, Manchester, Barcelona, Rome,
Lisbon, Athens, Berlin, London, …
• Companies
Cisco, CMG, IBM, Glimworm, Rooter, ..
• Knowledge Institutes
Aalto, MIT, Esade Business School, Dundee, iMinds, ..
• Funding
H2020, Creative Europe, Erasmus+, FI-PPP, AAL

34. PILOT

35. SMART CITIZEN KIT

39. Smart Cities need Smart Citizens

40. Smart citizen kits
1. make visible the invisible
2. sense augment the city
3. provide tools for citizens to interpet
change the workings of the city
4. open source, open data

41. Fablab Barcelona

46. Data Smart Citizen Kit
1. in ‘City Dashboard’
2. Noise Visualisation
citydashboard.waag.org

49. What is City SDK
Helsinki, Manchester, Barcelona, Rome,
Lamia and Istanbul

50. Buildings Amsterdam

51. Smart citizen kit pilot
1. From sensors to sensing
2. Broad implementation
3. Support and guidance
4. Interpretation
5. Discussion and action
6. 100 kits and citizens

52. Smart citizen kit pilot experts
1. RIVM
National Institute for Public
Health The environment
2. TNO
3. GGD Amsterdam

54. Technology
Environment Participation

56. 100 kits available in Amsterdam
distribution from 23/2 till 15/4

57. Results of distributed kits
data or no data?
Data
delivered
63%
No data
29%
Stopped
8%
of which worked:
continuously: ca. 60%
irregularly: ca. 40%

58. Principal reason to participate
from the survey at the start

59. Smart Citizen Kit
Insights gathered
1. Data calibration (gas sensors)
2. Participation and engagement
3. Make data meaningful
4. Make data actionable
5. Management of expectations
6. Hardware needs improvement
7. Better sensors and wi-fi module
8. Select Participants carefully

61. Next Fase Smart Citizen Kit
http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizen-kit

62. Smart Citizen Kit
Next
1. Testbed for SME
2. 500 kits and 500 citizens
3. New research – new algoritms
4. Dashboard and visualizations

63. Smart Citizen Kit
Testbed for SME

64. Smart Citizen Kit
500 kits and 500 citizens

65. Smart Citizen Kit
New research – new algoritms

66. Smart Citizen Kit
Dashboard and visualizations

68. Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69
1011 HB Amsterdam
waag.org
Mieke van Heesewijk
mieke@waag.org
@miekevh