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
RESEARCH & DEVELOP 
TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
• 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
Technology 
• For self expression 
and communication 
• Linking people, 
groups, communities 
• Sharing thoughts, 
blueprints, algorithms 
• Reflecting & 
understanding 
And discovering it’s 
underlying meaning.
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
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
Labs 
Open Design Lab 
Wet Lab Creative Care Lab 
Future Internet Lab 
Creative Learning Lab 
Urban Reality Lab
invention - creation - innovation 
invention 
curiosity driven research 
creation 
context driven research 
innovation 
transformation research
Users as Designers
Free research is motor for innovation 
impact 
Events 
Making 
publications 
Research 
methods 
education 
advice 
DIY products
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
Results
Labyrinth Psychotica 
Jennifer Kanary: http://www.labyrinthpsychotica.org/
Bodyguard
Fairphone
Fablab Amsterdam
Health Living Lab
OPEN 
SOURCE / CONTENT / DATA 
HARDWARE
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
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
3D Printing 
http://waag.org/en/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens
3D Printing
Open source houses
Open source cars
SMART CITIZEN KIT
ECOSYSTEM AMSTERDAM
http://www.amsterdam.nl/kunst-cultuur-sport/werkplekken/broedplaatsen/broedplaatsenkaart/
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
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)
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
Partners
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
PILOT
SMART CITIZEN KIT
Smart Cities need Smart Citizens
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
Fablab Barcelona
Data Smart Citizen Kit 
1. in ‘City Dashboard’ 
2. Noise Visualisation 
citydashboard.waag.org
What is City SDK 
Helsinki, Manchester, Barcelona, Rome, 
Lamia and Istanbul
Buildings Amsterdam
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
Smart citizen kit pilot experts 
1. RIVM 
National Institute for Public 
Health  The environment 
2. TNO 
3. GGD Amsterdam
Technology 
Environment Participation
100 kits available in Amsterdam 
distribution from 23/2 till 15/4
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%
Principal reason to participate 
from the survey at the start
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
Next Fase Smart Citizen Kit 
http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizen-kit
Smart Citizen Kit 
Next 
1. Testbed for SME 
2. 500 kits and 500 citizens 
3. New research – new algoritms 
4. Dashboard and visualizations
Smart Citizen Kit 
Testbed for SME
Smart Citizen Kit 
500 kits and 500 citizens
Smart Citizen Kit 
New research – new algoritms
Smart Citizen Kit 
Dashboard and visualizations
Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69 
1011 HB Amsterdam 
waag.org 
Mieke van Heesewijk 
mieke@waag.org 
@miekevh

20141105 presentatie taipei

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    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
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    RESEARCH & DEVELOP TECHNOLOGY FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION
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    • Institute forArt, 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 • Forself expression and communication • Linking people, groups, communities • Sharing thoughts, blueprints, algorithms • Reflecting & understanding And discovering it’s underlying meaning.
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    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
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    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
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    Labs Open DesignLab Wet Lab Creative Care Lab Future Internet Lab Creative Learning Lab Urban Reality Lab
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    invention - creation- innovation invention curiosity driven research creation context driven research innovation transformation research
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    Free research ismotor for innovation impact Events Making publications Research methods education advice DIY products
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    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
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    Labyrinth Psychotica JenniferKanary: http://www.labyrinthpsychotica.org/
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    OPEN SOURCE /CONTENT / DATA HARDWARE
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    Network Effect ofthe 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
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    Data Driven EcologyTrends 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
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    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
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    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)
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    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
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    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
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    Smart Cities needSmart Citizens
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    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
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    Data Smart CitizenKit 1. in ‘City Dashboard’ 2. Noise Visualisation citydashboard.waag.org
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    What is CitySDK Helsinki, Manchester, Barcelona, Rome, Lamia and Istanbul
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    Smart citizen kitpilot 1. From sensors to sensing 2. Broad implementation 3. Support and guidance 4. Interpretation 5. Discussion and action 6. 100 kits and citizens
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    Smart citizen kitpilot experts 1. RIVM National Institute for Public Health The environment 2. TNO 3. GGD Amsterdam
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    100 kits availablein Amsterdam distribution from 23/2 till 15/4
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    Results of distributedkits data or no data? Data delivered 63% No data 29% Stopped 8% of which worked: continuously: ca. 60% irregularly: ca. 40%
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    Principal reason toparticipate from the survey at the start
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    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
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    Next Fase SmartCitizen Kit http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizen-kit
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    Smart Citizen Kit Next 1. Testbed for SME 2. 500 kits and 500 citizens 3. New research – new algoritms 4. Dashboard and visualizations
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    Smart Citizen Kit Testbed for SME
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    Smart Citizen Kit 500 kits and 500 citizens
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    Smart Citizen Kit New research – new algoritms
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    Smart Citizen Kit Dashboard and visualizations
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    Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69 1011 HB Amsterdam waag.org Mieke van Heesewijk mieke@waag.org @miekevh