The document discusses the future of smart cities and ensuring their development is inclusive. It notes that while smart cities offer opportunities for efficiency, security and convenience, they may also lead to bugs, brittle infrastructure, issues of control, and exclusion of some groups. The key is integrating top-down and grassroots solutions so global technology meets local needs. The document proposes civic laboratories as places to adapt technology locally and outlines 13 solution templates for inclusive smart cities development, including around commons, markets, design/planning, governance and participatory public services. It notes tensions will arise and questions how Vancouver can better serve as a civic laboratory.

1. a planet of civic laboratoriesthe future of cities, information and inclusion Anthony Townsend |Research Director INSTITUTE FOR THE FUTURE Presented at Museum of Vancouver April 8, 2011 © 2011 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

3. bugs in the smartest city on earth

4. BUT ITS NOT JUST THE SMART TOILETS I’M WORRIED ABOUT

5. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE SCALE THIS UP TO A CITY?

10. $40 TRILLION URBAN INFRASTRUCTUEOPPORTUNITYEFFICIENCYSECURITYCONVEINENCE

12. ARE WE LOOKING AT DECADES OF DEBUGGING OUR CITIES?

15. ARE WE BUILDING BRITTLE GRIDS?

17. ARE SMART CITIES GOING TO BE INSTRUMENTS OF CONTROL?

19. ARE SMART CITIES AN UNTHINKABLE IDEA?

20. IF THEY’RE INSPIRED ONLY BY CORPORATE VISIONOR AUTHORITARIAN NEEDS…YES

21. Cisco, Shanghai, 2010 = General Motors, New York, 1939

22. a battle for the smart city? © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

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25. OPPORTUNITYTRANSPARENCYSOCIABILITYFUN

26. WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND? WHAT NEW EXCLUSIONS MIGHT BE CREATED? © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

27. the challenge how do you bring global IT to local communities in inclusive ways? © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

28. the key integrating top-down and grassroots solutions © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

29. houston’s citizen-friendly 311 © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

30. a planet of civic laboratories?

31. what’s a “civic laboratory”? a place where global technology is adapted to meet local needs vs one-size fits all © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

32. the forecast 13 solution templates for inclusive smart cities © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

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34. 34 commons

35. 35 commons

36. 36 commons

37. 37 commons “Gather the volunteers at your current location and come to E 17th. OK?”

38. 38 markets

39. 39 markets

40. 40 markets

41. 41 markets

42. 42 design &planning

43. 43 design &planning

44. 44 design &planning

45. governance 45

46. governance 46

47. txteagle GroundTruth™ reinventing surveys and censuses governance 47

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49. but wait… tensions will arise! © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A

50. 50 participatory public services

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52. 52 data control

53. how can Vancouver be a civic laboratory?

54. how can Vancouver be a better civic laboratory?

55. engaging the map PDF Prezi tag www.iftf.org/inclusion bit.ly/civiclabs #civiclabs © 2010 Institute for the Future. All rights reserved. | SR-1352A