Smart cities are often about top-down technological change, but that doesn't lead to smart citizens. Only buttom-up initiatives do.

1. brightlands startup fest: smart citizenship

2. who is theo ploeg (@theoploeg)?

3. what i do?

4. smart devices are everywhere

5. 5social media as tool for freedom

6. lanier, rushkoff, morozov & keen: internet is wrong

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13. triodos bank: ’we live in a wonderful time’

14. marshall mcluhan (1911-1980)

15. understanding media (1964)

16. mcluhans advice: don’t drown in the media ‘mahlström'

17. so, what is a smart citizen?

18. ‘a smart city is an urban development
vision to integrate multiple ict
solutions in a secure fashion to
manage a city’s assets […] to improve
quality of life by using technology to
improve the efficiency of services and
meet residents’ needs.’
smart city definition at wikipedia (by sam musa)

19. smart city roadmap by sam musa is a top-down structure

20. all you need to know ;- )

21. ‘hyper-reality’ by keiichi matsuda (impression of a future)

22. the future isn’t fixed: four thinkable scenario’s by svdj

23. ‘the ability to achieve personal
goals in a meaningful way.’
what is smart? sort of new definition

24. ‘a person that is able to play a
meaningful role in a community.’
and citizen? sort of new definition

25. ‘being able to achieve own goals
in a meaningful way and by doing
so ading meaning to the
community.’
so, what’s smart citizenship?

26. back to marshall mcluhan

27. ‘societies have always been shapes
more by the nature of the media by
which men communicate than by the
content of the communication’
the essence of mcluhan’s thoughts

28. mcluhan's main thought #1: media are extensions of some human faculty

29. mcluhan’s main thought #2: the medium is the message

30. 30mcluhan’s main thought #3: walking backwards into the future

31. in Playboy (1969)
‘The computer thus holds out the
promise of a technologically
engendered state of universal
understanding and unity, a state
of absorption in the logos that
could knit mankind into one
family and create a perpetuity of
collective harmony and peace.’
the electronic age or global village

32. actually that is a plausible scenario

33. 33disrupter #1: televisie

35. media & tools
world view
values &
meaning
three levels of smartness

36. ‘when city dwellers use the internet smarter […] cities become smarter’

37. three main conclusions of ericsson’s networked city research (2014)

38. ibm and madrid (2014-2018)

39. is top-down the best choice?

40. what about bottom-up? smart citizen kit

41. smart citizen kits around the world

44. waag society as invention lab

48. peter bruyn (renowned journalist, haarlem)
‘master the media,
master yourself.’

49. thank you!