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Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab
The Smart Citizens Lab, led by Frank Kresin, focuses on empowering individuals to understand and improve their environments through technology and community engagement. It emphasizes the importance of knowledge sharing, active participation, and ethical responsibility among citizens to address urban environmental challenges effectively. The initiative utilizes open-source sensors to gather data, facilitating discussions and actions that lead to healthier, more livable cities.
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- 1. Smart Citizens Lab FrankKresin Research Director @kresin / frank@waag.org
- 2. • For selfexpression and communication • Linking people, groups, communities • Sharing thoughts, blueprints, algorithms • Reflecting & understanding And discovering it’s underlying meaning. Technology
- 3. • Making iscrucial to understand and act in our world • Best producer is the user • (S)he can learn to make (almost) anything • Sharing knowledge is the key to innovation Maker Ethics
- 4. Smart Citizens • Willtake responsibility for the place they live, work and love; • Value access over ownership, contribution over power; • Will ask forgiveness, not permission; • Know where they can get the tools, knowledge and support; • Value empathy, dialogue and trust; • Appropriate technology, rather than accept it as is; • Will help the people that struggle with smart stuff; • Ask questions, before they come up with answers; • Take part in design efforts to come up with better solutions; • Work agile, prototype early, test quickly, start all over; • Will not stop in the face of huge barriers; • Continuously share their knowledge and their learning. http://waag.org/nl/blog/manifesto-smart-citizens
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- 6. • Ambient (outdoorair pollution) in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 3.7 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012. • By reducing air pollution levels, countries can reduce the burden of disease from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and both chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma. • The lower the levels of air pollution, the better the cardiovascular and respiratory health of the population will be, both long- & short-term. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs313/en/ WHO
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- 9. Empower people to: •Make visible and tangible the invisible • Understand their environment • Turn data and insight into action • Using public networks of low cost, open source sensors
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- 12. From Sensors to Sensing •Broad implementation of Smart Citizen Kits • Support and guidance • Enhancing data literacy • Visualisation and interpretation • Discussion and action
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- 20. Lessons Learned • Sensorsneed improvement • However, this is not about accuracy • Thorough issue mapping is needed • From sensing to action is challenging • Citizens love it
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- 23. • Better informed,more engaged citizens • Impactful dialogues between citizens and governments • More data, more insight, better policies • More enjoyable, healthy, livable cities Resulting in Issue Mapping: Topical Barcamp Sensors: Open Hardware Bootcamp Sensing: Data Collection Understanding: Visualisation & Interpretation Action: Community Meetup HvA RIVM AMS / Alterra SenseMakers AmEcBoard Amsterdam CTO FabLab Amsterdam Open Wetlab Waag Society Amsterdam Smart Citizens Lab Activities Phase 1 Partners http://waag.org/en/project/smart-citizens-lab
- 24. ILLUMINATED CITIES BASED ONEMPOWERMENT EMBRACING BOTTOM UP INITIATIVES MAXIMISING POSSIBILITIES WELCOMING FRICTION ENABLING CREATIVITY https://tinyurl.com/illuminated-cities
- 25. Pointers • Amsterdam SmartCitizens Lab http://waag.org/nl/project/smart-citizens-lab • Design Rules for Smarter Cities http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities • Smart Citizens Publication http://futureeverything.org/publications/smart-citizens/ • Digital Social Innovation http://digitalsocial.eu/ • Illuminated Cities https://www.waag.org/nl/blog/smart-cities-make-dumb-citizens • Users as Designers http://waag.org/en/project/users-designers
- 26. Sint Antoniesbreestraat 69 1011HB Amsterdam waag.org / info@waag.org Frank Kresin Research Director @kresin / frank@waag.org