We live in times that are as exciting as unsure at once. For many it is the most stunning and promising era in human society and for others it is a scary derangement of the old world. To find a path which leads us into a great future we created a comprehensive study to get insights about possible ways and hypotheses.
MLOVE and VISITOR FIRST plan to expand their initial scoping research on the relations between people and future technologies of Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. It considers important questions such as the consequences of bringing cutting edge technology into everyday life and the hopes, visions and fears tied to this process. The social frameworks that produce these technologies will also be analyzed.
MLOVE is a global community that brings together CEOs, CMOs, innovators and startup entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines to share, learn and inspire ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other pioneers.
In VISITOR FIRST, MLOVE found a partner with several years of experience in the field of ethnographic research and holistic research designs within a business context.
Challenges, Opportunities and Risks for a Smart FutureMLOVE ConFestival
We live in times that are as exciting as unsure at once. For many it is the most stunning and promising era in human society and for others it is a scary derangement of the old world. To find a path which leads us into a great future we created a comprehensive study to get insights about possible ways and hypotheses.
MLOVE and VISITOR FIRST plan to expand their initial scoping research on the relations between people and future technologies of Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. It considers important questions such as the consequences of bringing cutting edge technology into everyday life and the hopes, visions and fears tied to this process. The social frameworks that produce these technologies will also be analyzed.
MLOVE is a global community that brings together CEOs, CMOs, innovators and startup entrepreneurs from across multiple disci- plines to share, learn and inspire ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other pioneers.
In VISITOR FIRST, MLOVE found a partner with several years of experience in the field of ethnographic research and holistic research designs within a business context.
ThingsConAMS - Stakeholders in a new world - Rob van KranenburgThingsConAMS
The document discusses barriers to widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT). It notes a lack of third party trust providers and a lack of oversight for small and medium enterprises in the technological landscape. A key barrier is that IoT involves devices communicating without user consent, which could lead to unintended consequences and user anxiety over privacy and security. New skills are also needed to work with large amounts of unstructured data from IoT devices and understand the business implications across different sectors.
This document discusses barriers to the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. It identifies a lack of third party trust providers and oversight for small and medium enterprises as barriers. It also notes a lack of skills and resources for working with large, unstructured IoT data and dealing with the horizontal effects of IoT across different domains. The document advocates for developing rich use case scenarios that embed different types of collaboration to help address these barriers and challenges.
The document discusses four emerging trends:
1. The nature of success is changing as individuals have greater reach and influence due to the internet.
2. The digital world is expanding through the internet of things (IoT) and connectivity of everyday objects.
3. Power structures are shifting as IoT allows seamless data sharing across networks in a way that decentralizes control.
4. Business models must change and become more transparent as IoT enables real-time data sharing between companies and customers.
The document also summarizes efforts to involve citizens in co-creating IoT solutions through workshops in various cities to help design use cases that meet user needs and address issues of privacy, security and ethics.
The document discusses e-governance in India, including definitions, types of government interactions like G2C, G2B, G2G, and G2E. It outlines several Indian e-governance initiatives like Bhoomi, Gyandoot, Lokvani, and others. Recent initiatives discussed include Direct Cash Transfer, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System, Digital India Program, MyGov citizen portal, and E-Kranti scheme. The document also briefly discusses m-governance and its role in complementing e-governance efforts.
Introduction: Technological and methodical pillars for Smarter Environment Enablement
Part I: Smarter Environments Theoretical Grounding
What is a Smart Environment?
Technological enablers: IoT, Web of Data and Persuasive Technologies
Technology mediated Human Collaboration: need for co-creation
Killer application domains: Open Government & Age-friendly cities
Part II: Review of core enablers for Smarter Environments
Co-creation methodologies: Design for Thinking
Internet of Things and Web of Things
Web of Data: Linked Data, Crowdsourcing & Big Data
Part III: WeLive Case Study
WeLive as Open Government enabling methodology and platform
Reflections on the need for collaboration among stakeholders to realize Smarter Cities
Conclusions and practical implications
Open Smart City in Canada Project
Funded by: GeoConnections
Lead by: OpenNorth
Project core team:
Rachel Bloom & Jean-Noe Landry, Open North
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, LL.M., Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
Dr. Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Research Assistants Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Chicago has built a strong civic innovation ecosystem that powers civic technology projects in the city. Key parts of the ecosystem include:
1) The City of Chicago openly shares data through its data portal to fuel transparency, innovation and business. The city also participates directly in civic tech events.
2) Civic hackers, developers and others gather at weekly Chi Hack Nights to work on civic apps and collaborate. This recruits talent and fosters collaboration.
3) The Smart Chicago Collaborative provides institutional support for projects and partnerships between civic groups, helping produce impactful apps.
4) Chicago's efforts are shared with and collaborate through Code for America's global Brigade network, allowing work and ideas to spread
Challenges, Opportunities and Risks for a Smart FutureMLOVE ConFestival
We live in times that are as exciting as unsure at once. For many it is the most stunning and promising era in human society and for others it is a scary derangement of the old world. To find a path which leads us into a great future we created a comprehensive study to get insights about possible ways and hypotheses.
MLOVE and VISITOR FIRST plan to expand their initial scoping research on the relations between people and future technologies of Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. It considers important questions such as the consequences of bringing cutting edge technology into everyday life and the hopes, visions and fears tied to this process. The social frameworks that produce these technologies will also be analyzed.
MLOVE is a global community that brings together CEOs, CMOs, innovators and startup entrepreneurs from across multiple disci- plines to share, learn and inspire ideas with an array of scientists, artists and other pioneers.
In VISITOR FIRST, MLOVE found a partner with several years of experience in the field of ethnographic research and holistic research designs within a business context.
ThingsConAMS - Stakeholders in a new world - Rob van KranenburgThingsConAMS
The document discusses barriers to widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT). It notes a lack of third party trust providers and a lack of oversight for small and medium enterprises in the technological landscape. A key barrier is that IoT involves devices communicating without user consent, which could lead to unintended consequences and user anxiety over privacy and security. New skills are also needed to work with large amounts of unstructured data from IoT devices and understand the business implications across different sectors.
This document discusses barriers to the adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. It identifies a lack of third party trust providers and oversight for small and medium enterprises as barriers. It also notes a lack of skills and resources for working with large, unstructured IoT data and dealing with the horizontal effects of IoT across different domains. The document advocates for developing rich use case scenarios that embed different types of collaboration to help address these barriers and challenges.
The document discusses four emerging trends:
1. The nature of success is changing as individuals have greater reach and influence due to the internet.
2. The digital world is expanding through the internet of things (IoT) and connectivity of everyday objects.
3. Power structures are shifting as IoT allows seamless data sharing across networks in a way that decentralizes control.
4. Business models must change and become more transparent as IoT enables real-time data sharing between companies and customers.
The document also summarizes efforts to involve citizens in co-creating IoT solutions through workshops in various cities to help design use cases that meet user needs and address issues of privacy, security and ethics.
The document discusses e-governance in India, including definitions, types of government interactions like G2C, G2B, G2G, and G2E. It outlines several Indian e-governance initiatives like Bhoomi, Gyandoot, Lokvani, and others. Recent initiatives discussed include Direct Cash Transfer, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System, Digital India Program, MyGov citizen portal, and E-Kranti scheme. The document also briefly discusses m-governance and its role in complementing e-governance efforts.
Introduction: Technological and methodical pillars for Smarter Environment Enablement
Part I: Smarter Environments Theoretical Grounding
What is a Smart Environment?
Technological enablers: IoT, Web of Data and Persuasive Technologies
Technology mediated Human Collaboration: need for co-creation
Killer application domains: Open Government & Age-friendly cities
Part II: Review of core enablers for Smarter Environments
Co-creation methodologies: Design for Thinking
Internet of Things and Web of Things
Web of Data: Linked Data, Crowdsourcing & Big Data
Part III: WeLive Case Study
WeLive as Open Government enabling methodology and platform
Reflections on the need for collaboration among stakeholders to realize Smarter Cities
Conclusions and practical implications
Open Smart City in Canada Project
Funded by: GeoConnections
Lead by: OpenNorth
Project core team:
Rachel Bloom & Jean-Noe Landry, Open North
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, LL.M., Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
Dr. Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Research Assistants Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Chicago has built a strong civic innovation ecosystem that powers civic technology projects in the city. Key parts of the ecosystem include:
1) The City of Chicago openly shares data through its data portal to fuel transparency, innovation and business. The city also participates directly in civic tech events.
2) Civic hackers, developers and others gather at weekly Chi Hack Nights to work on civic apps and collaborate. This recruits talent and fosters collaboration.
3) The Smart Chicago Collaborative provides institutional support for projects and partnerships between civic groups, helping produce impactful apps.
4) Chicago's efforts are shared with and collaborate through Code for America's global Brigade network, allowing work and ideas to spread
Technologies shall be not invasive in the life of a person.
ICT is only a tool, both for information gathering and information delivering. We can elicit useful information through face-to-face discussions, we HAVE TO understand the most suitable interface for users/citizens.
Business fostered. More users, more trust, more engagement, more feedback, more info to be elaborated by third parties.
Only 7 out 450+ cases found as high relevant for user centricity in Europe. Survey (2011). NET-EUCEN D2.1
European services are aligned with the international panorama
The document discusses research on using ICT tools to improve governance and policy modeling. It proposes:
1) Developing advanced tools and new governance models to engage citizens and groups in policymaking through mass collaboration platforms.
2) Creating real-time opinion visualization and policy modeling based on simulating people's behavior and wishes to develop next-generation public services.
3) Building a participatory roadmap on ICT for governance and policy modeling through discussion.
The City that NetWorks: Transforming Society and Economy Through Digital Exce...Daniel X. O'Neil
The document summarizes the vision and recommendations of the Mayor's Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide in Chicago. The Council's vision is for Chicago to achieve universal "digital excellence" through five key drivers: effective network access, affordable hardware, suitable software, digital education, and evolving mindsets. This would lead to "digital transformation" through improved education, community, commerce, and government. To achieve this vision, the summary recommends launching a large-scale "Campaign for Digital Excellence" involving the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. It also recommends creating a new institution called the "Partnership for a Digital Chicago" to oversee and coordinate the campaign citywide.
This document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, including its definition, key enabling technologies, areas of application, examples of implementation, and challenges. Some key points:
- IoT refers to the network of physical objects embedded with sensors, software, and network connectivity that enables them to collect and exchange data. This allows objects to be monitored and controlled remotely.
- Main technologies enabling IoT include RFID, NFC, sensor networks, and protocols that allow interconnection and data transmission.
- Main areas of IoT application include healthcare, transportation, industrial processes, smart cities, and consumer devices. This brings opportunities for efficiency and data-driven improvements.
- Ch
This document discusses smart cities and the role of data and analytics in creating smarter cities. It covers topics like what makes a city smart, the importance of citizen participation and crowdsourcing, using IoT and linked open data to generate insights. It also discusses challenges around ensuring quality of user-generated data and the need for human-centric collaborative services that leverage big data, crowdsourcing and engagement to improve quality of life in cities.
The digital city program proposes a system to create new jobs by addressing the digital divide and lack of technical skills through an integrated online platform. It would provide intermediate and advanced technical courses, create local projects sponsored by brands that provide internships, and leverage free online tools and video help to train underemployed and unemployed individuals in skills needed for freelance work. The system aims to make technology accessible and build technical confidence to simultaneously address workforce development and generate ongoing funding through the platform, projects, and various revenue streams.
This presentation overviews the reseach areas, active project and scientific contributions produced by DeustoTech-INTERNET and the MORElab research group (http://www.morelab.deusto.es)
This document provides a summary of Jim Spohrer's presentation on "Service in the AI Era: Science, Logic, and Architecture Perspectives" given to the 2022 UC Merced Service Science class. The presentation covered several key topics:
1) It discussed two approaches to the future - artificial intelligence which focuses on building capable machine systems, and service science which studies transformation and building smarter socio-technical systems.
2) It presented a conceptual framework for service science that views it as a transdisciplinary approach to studying service systems.
3) It emphasized that as artificial intelligence and digital technologies continue advancing, they require investing wisely to improve service and understanding through better science, logics, and architectures.
Smarter Cities pillars: Internet of Things, Web of Data, Crowdsourcing
Interdependence analysis: Society ageing and Societal urbanisation
Enablement of Smarter Inclusive Cities
The document discusses how GIS and location intelligence are enabling smarter communities through digital transformation and data integration. It provides examples of how cities are using Esri's platform and smart apps to achieve goals like improved transportation, public safety, economic development, and government efficiency. Specific smart apps mentioned include tools for parking management, finding affordable housing, emergency response optimization, and crime analysis. The presentation concludes by discussing Esri's capabilities for smart city initiatives and future integrations.
Introduction: Technological and methodical pillars for Smarter Environment Enablement
Part I: Smarter Environments Theoretical Grounding
What is a Smart Environment?
Technological enablers: IoT, Web of Data and Persuasive Technologies
Technology mediated Human Collaboration: need for co-creation
Killer application domains: Open Government & Age-friendly cities
Part II: Review of core enablers for Smarter Environments
Co-creation methodologies: Service Design and Design for Thinking
Internet of Things and Web of Things
Web of Data: Linked Data, Crowdsourcing & Big Data
Persuasive technologies and Behaviour Change
Part III: Implications for CyberParks
European projects on enabling Smarter Environments: WeLive, City4Age, GreenSoul
Reflections on the need for collaboration among stakeholders mediated with technology to realize CyberParks
Conclusions and practical implications
When will the Internet change our cities like it changed our lives? In the final Things report SMACT and the City we now take the city as the center of Things.
The convergence of bricks and clicks
The report shows how the five basic SMACT technologies are moving the creation of 21st century urban environments into top gear. We provide a status update on Smart Cities today and how developments like Senseable Cities and Cities as a Platform provide both new dynamics and opportunities for blending the digital and the physical infrastructure of our world together. The report provides a analysis of how this is already becoming a reality for retailers and presents what companies and organisations of all trades could learn from the accelerating convergence of bricks and clicks.
From the report:
- The Internet of Things will change our cities.
- The five basic technologies that form SMACT are moving urban development into top gear.
- The digital architecture of the city is becoming a true development platform.
- SMACT will transform the city into a platform to blend bricks and clicks seamlessly together.
- The future of cities is about: platform solutions, pervasive applications, and sensible sensing technologies.
- City as a Platform equals the infrastructural capacity plus the human dimension, the empowerment of behavior through data and applications.
Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and Smart DecisionsMartha Russell
Presentation given on December 11, 2016 in Hong Kong, hosted by Savantas Policy Institute, The Hong Kong Computer Society, Hong Kong Industry-University-Research Collaboration Association, Invotech, Internet Professional Association (iProA), and Savantas Liberal Arts Academy.
We stand on the thresh hold of abundance. Higher productivity is possible. Better quality of life is possible. We have new opportunities in personal and family wellness. The technological advances in sensors, connectivity and data now provide a perfect storm of change – for smart cities, smart workplaces, smart education, and smart communities. In this perfect storm, relationships, trust and vision are essential for innovation leadership. Shared vision among smart citizens allows people operating independently to arrive together at the same future. Massive data permits continuous feedback for high quality decisions. Change is an imperative. Change is continual. In order to move forward, we must be both the architects and the engines of change.
The question before us is: Are we moving forward – and, are we doing so fast enough?
The document discusses the concept of a digital city and what constitutes one. Key factors include technological infrastructure, education, jobs, and citizen services. A digital city would provide dashboards for citizens with information on local events, resources, regulations, and more. It would involve collaboration between government, businesses, non-profits, and citizens. The goal is to create digital jobs through multimedia projects that train workers and are hosted on open servers. This could be a self-sustaining model that spurs entrepreneurship and job growth in the digital economy.
The document discusses enabling smarter cities through connecting devices, data, and citizens. It summarizes that Internet of Things will connect billions of devices by 2020, and that linked open data and citizen participation are needed along with IoT to create smarter cities. Smarter cities are defined as using technology and data to improve quality of life while ensuring sustainability, through connecting IoT, linked data, mobile apps, and analyzing urban data. The document advocates making cities more livable, accessible, healthy, inclusive, and participatory for all citizens.
The Smart City World Expo 2016 was held in Barcelona from November 15-17 and brought together innovators in smart cities and future urban development. The consulting firm TGAC attended to research innovations that will shape cities and mobility in the future, such as for their work on the 2020 Dubai World Expo. Over three days, TGAC attended talks from thought leaders and interacted with technologies. Key topics discussed included the challenges of rapid urbanization, taking a human-centered approach to development, and ensuring new technologies actually improve quality of life.
This document discusses transitioning to smart communities and rural environments through open knowledge and collaboration. It argues that smart places require participatory and user-driven innovation where citizens are empowered through ubiquitous apps and services. However, continuously engaging users in collaborative processes is challenging. Blockchain and human computation techniques can help turn citizens into prosumers of public data and services by incentivizing contributions and tracking refinements on open data portals. This can provide actionable open knowledge to better serve rural citizens and enterprises.
Web3 And The Next Internet - New Directions And Opportunities For STM PublishingMills Davis
The new ecosystem for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing is digital, trans-semiotic, data and knowledge intensive, social, connected, collaborative, community-driven, mobile, multi-channel, immersive, and massively networked and computational.
In this era of open, co-evolving, networked techno-socio-economic processes, commercial publishing models based on exclusive literature collections are simply not enough.
By understanding changes coming with Web 3.0 and the next internet, STM publishers can identify new roles and profitable business opportunities.
Introductory remarks
- Jean-Noe Landry, Executive Director, Open North
Webinar 2 includes:
- Summary of Webinar 1: E-Scan and Assessment of Smart -
Cities in Canada (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k )
- Situating smart cities amongst current digital practices
- Towards guiding principles for Open Smart Cities
- Examples of international best practices from international cities
- Observations & Next Steps
Webinar Presenters:
- Rachel Bloom, Open North
- Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Content Contributors:
- David Fewer CIPPIC,
- Mark Fox U. of Toronto,
- Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Project Name:
- Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date:
- December 14, 2017
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is worsened when these algorithms are integrated into already opaque governance structures in our cities. Moreover, over the past decade, the propagation of sensors and data collection machines in so-called ‘smart cities’ by both the public and the private sectors has created democratic challenges around AI, surveillance capitalism, and protecting citizens’ digital rights to privacy and ownership.
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 3 - EnglishOpen North
In this webinar we present a first ever definition for an Open Smart City and the Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0, informed by research conducted in Canada and an examination of international best practices. In the context of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge and the public conversation regarding Sidewalk Labs, this webinar gave us timely opportunity to receive public feedback on the definition and structure of the guide. The webinar refers to tools, practices, policies, recommendations and legal frameworks to guide Canadian municipalities toward co-creating Open Smart Cities with their residents.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Technologies shall be not invasive in the life of a person.
ICT is only a tool, both for information gathering and information delivering. We can elicit useful information through face-to-face discussions, we HAVE TO understand the most suitable interface for users/citizens.
Business fostered. More users, more trust, more engagement, more feedback, more info to be elaborated by third parties.
Only 7 out 450+ cases found as high relevant for user centricity in Europe. Survey (2011). NET-EUCEN D2.1
European services are aligned with the international panorama
The document discusses research on using ICT tools to improve governance and policy modeling. It proposes:
1) Developing advanced tools and new governance models to engage citizens and groups in policymaking through mass collaboration platforms.
2) Creating real-time opinion visualization and policy modeling based on simulating people's behavior and wishes to develop next-generation public services.
3) Building a participatory roadmap on ICT for governance and policy modeling through discussion.
The City that NetWorks: Transforming Society and Economy Through Digital Exce...Daniel X. O'Neil
The document summarizes the vision and recommendations of the Mayor's Advisory Council on Closing the Digital Divide in Chicago. The Council's vision is for Chicago to achieve universal "digital excellence" through five key drivers: effective network access, affordable hardware, suitable software, digital education, and evolving mindsets. This would lead to "digital transformation" through improved education, community, commerce, and government. To achieve this vision, the summary recommends launching a large-scale "Campaign for Digital Excellence" involving the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. It also recommends creating a new institution called the "Partnership for a Digital Chicago" to oversee and coordinate the campaign citywide.
This document provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, including its definition, key enabling technologies, areas of application, examples of implementation, and challenges. Some key points:
- IoT refers to the network of physical objects embedded with sensors, software, and network connectivity that enables them to collect and exchange data. This allows objects to be monitored and controlled remotely.
- Main technologies enabling IoT include RFID, NFC, sensor networks, and protocols that allow interconnection and data transmission.
- Main areas of IoT application include healthcare, transportation, industrial processes, smart cities, and consumer devices. This brings opportunities for efficiency and data-driven improvements.
- Ch
This document discusses smart cities and the role of data and analytics in creating smarter cities. It covers topics like what makes a city smart, the importance of citizen participation and crowdsourcing, using IoT and linked open data to generate insights. It also discusses challenges around ensuring quality of user-generated data and the need for human-centric collaborative services that leverage big data, crowdsourcing and engagement to improve quality of life in cities.
The digital city program proposes a system to create new jobs by addressing the digital divide and lack of technical skills through an integrated online platform. It would provide intermediate and advanced technical courses, create local projects sponsored by brands that provide internships, and leverage free online tools and video help to train underemployed and unemployed individuals in skills needed for freelance work. The system aims to make technology accessible and build technical confidence to simultaneously address workforce development and generate ongoing funding through the platform, projects, and various revenue streams.
This presentation overviews the reseach areas, active project and scientific contributions produced by DeustoTech-INTERNET and the MORElab research group (http://www.morelab.deusto.es)
This document provides a summary of Jim Spohrer's presentation on "Service in the AI Era: Science, Logic, and Architecture Perspectives" given to the 2022 UC Merced Service Science class. The presentation covered several key topics:
1) It discussed two approaches to the future - artificial intelligence which focuses on building capable machine systems, and service science which studies transformation and building smarter socio-technical systems.
2) It presented a conceptual framework for service science that views it as a transdisciplinary approach to studying service systems.
3) It emphasized that as artificial intelligence and digital technologies continue advancing, they require investing wisely to improve service and understanding through better science, logics, and architectures.
Smarter Cities pillars: Internet of Things, Web of Data, Crowdsourcing
Interdependence analysis: Society ageing and Societal urbanisation
Enablement of Smarter Inclusive Cities
The document discusses how GIS and location intelligence are enabling smarter communities through digital transformation and data integration. It provides examples of how cities are using Esri's platform and smart apps to achieve goals like improved transportation, public safety, economic development, and government efficiency. Specific smart apps mentioned include tools for parking management, finding affordable housing, emergency response optimization, and crime analysis. The presentation concludes by discussing Esri's capabilities for smart city initiatives and future integrations.
Introduction: Technological and methodical pillars for Smarter Environment Enablement
Part I: Smarter Environments Theoretical Grounding
What is a Smart Environment?
Technological enablers: IoT, Web of Data and Persuasive Technologies
Technology mediated Human Collaboration: need for co-creation
Killer application domains: Open Government & Age-friendly cities
Part II: Review of core enablers for Smarter Environments
Co-creation methodologies: Service Design and Design for Thinking
Internet of Things and Web of Things
Web of Data: Linked Data, Crowdsourcing & Big Data
Persuasive technologies and Behaviour Change
Part III: Implications for CyberParks
European projects on enabling Smarter Environments: WeLive, City4Age, GreenSoul
Reflections on the need for collaboration among stakeholders mediated with technology to realize CyberParks
Conclusions and practical implications
When will the Internet change our cities like it changed our lives? In the final Things report SMACT and the City we now take the city as the center of Things.
The convergence of bricks and clicks
The report shows how the five basic SMACT technologies are moving the creation of 21st century urban environments into top gear. We provide a status update on Smart Cities today and how developments like Senseable Cities and Cities as a Platform provide both new dynamics and opportunities for blending the digital and the physical infrastructure of our world together. The report provides a analysis of how this is already becoming a reality for retailers and presents what companies and organisations of all trades could learn from the accelerating convergence of bricks and clicks.
From the report:
- The Internet of Things will change our cities.
- The five basic technologies that form SMACT are moving urban development into top gear.
- The digital architecture of the city is becoming a true development platform.
- SMACT will transform the city into a platform to blend bricks and clicks seamlessly together.
- The future of cities is about: platform solutions, pervasive applications, and sensible sensing technologies.
- City as a Platform equals the infrastructural capacity plus the human dimension, the empowerment of behavior through data and applications.
Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and Smart DecisionsMartha Russell
Presentation given on December 11, 2016 in Hong Kong, hosted by Savantas Policy Institute, The Hong Kong Computer Society, Hong Kong Industry-University-Research Collaboration Association, Invotech, Internet Professional Association (iProA), and Savantas Liberal Arts Academy.
We stand on the thresh hold of abundance. Higher productivity is possible. Better quality of life is possible. We have new opportunities in personal and family wellness. The technological advances in sensors, connectivity and data now provide a perfect storm of change – for smart cities, smart workplaces, smart education, and smart communities. In this perfect storm, relationships, trust and vision are essential for innovation leadership. Shared vision among smart citizens allows people operating independently to arrive together at the same future. Massive data permits continuous feedback for high quality decisions. Change is an imperative. Change is continual. In order to move forward, we must be both the architects and the engines of change.
The question before us is: Are we moving forward – and, are we doing so fast enough?
The document discusses the concept of a digital city and what constitutes one. Key factors include technological infrastructure, education, jobs, and citizen services. A digital city would provide dashboards for citizens with information on local events, resources, regulations, and more. It would involve collaboration between government, businesses, non-profits, and citizens. The goal is to create digital jobs through multimedia projects that train workers and are hosted on open servers. This could be a self-sustaining model that spurs entrepreneurship and job growth in the digital economy.
The document discusses enabling smarter cities through connecting devices, data, and citizens. It summarizes that Internet of Things will connect billions of devices by 2020, and that linked open data and citizen participation are needed along with IoT to create smarter cities. Smarter cities are defined as using technology and data to improve quality of life while ensuring sustainability, through connecting IoT, linked data, mobile apps, and analyzing urban data. The document advocates making cities more livable, accessible, healthy, inclusive, and participatory for all citizens.
The Smart City World Expo 2016 was held in Barcelona from November 15-17 and brought together innovators in smart cities and future urban development. The consulting firm TGAC attended to research innovations that will shape cities and mobility in the future, such as for their work on the 2020 Dubai World Expo. Over three days, TGAC attended talks from thought leaders and interacted with technologies. Key topics discussed included the challenges of rapid urbanization, taking a human-centered approach to development, and ensuring new technologies actually improve quality of life.
This document discusses transitioning to smart communities and rural environments through open knowledge and collaboration. It argues that smart places require participatory and user-driven innovation where citizens are empowered through ubiquitous apps and services. However, continuously engaging users in collaborative processes is challenging. Blockchain and human computation techniques can help turn citizens into prosumers of public data and services by incentivizing contributions and tracking refinements on open data portals. This can provide actionable open knowledge to better serve rural citizens and enterprises.
Web3 And The Next Internet - New Directions And Opportunities For STM PublishingMills Davis
The new ecosystem for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing is digital, trans-semiotic, data and knowledge intensive, social, connected, collaborative, community-driven, mobile, multi-channel, immersive, and massively networked and computational.
In this era of open, co-evolving, networked techno-socio-economic processes, commercial publishing models based on exclusive literature collections are simply not enough.
By understanding changes coming with Web 3.0 and the next internet, STM publishers can identify new roles and profitable business opportunities.
Introductory remarks
- Jean-Noe Landry, Executive Director, Open North
Webinar 2 includes:
- Summary of Webinar 1: E-Scan and Assessment of Smart -
Cities in Canada (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k )
- Situating smart cities amongst current digital practices
- Towards guiding principles for Open Smart Cities
- Examples of international best practices from international cities
- Observations & Next Steps
Webinar Presenters:
- Rachel Bloom, Open North
- Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Content Contributors:
- David Fewer CIPPIC,
- Mark Fox U. of Toronto,
- Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Project Name:
- Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date:
- December 14, 2017
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation, and is helping to address major challenges such as ageing and climate change. However, there is currently a lack of transparency in algorithmic governance systems, and this is worsened when these algorithms are integrated into already opaque governance structures in our cities. Moreover, over the past decade, the propagation of sensors and data collection machines in so-called ‘smart cities’ by both the public and the private sectors has created democratic challenges around AI, surveillance capitalism, and protecting citizens’ digital rights to privacy and ownership.
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 3 - EnglishOpen North
In this webinar we present a first ever definition for an Open Smart City and the Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0, informed by research conducted in Canada and an examination of international best practices. In the context of Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge and the public conversation regarding Sidewalk Labs, this webinar gave us timely opportunity to receive public feedback on the definition and structure of the guide. The webinar refers to tools, practices, policies, recommendations and legal frameworks to guide Canadian municipalities toward co-creating Open Smart Cities with their residents.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
The Internet of Things 2012 - New HorizonLittle Daisy
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An Innovative, Open, Interoperable Citizen Engagement
Cloud Platform for Smart Government and Users’
Interaction
Diego Reforgiato Recupero1,6 & Mario Castronovo2 &
Sergio Consoli1 & Tarcisio Costanzo3 &
Aldo Gangemi1,4 & Luigi Grasso3 & Giorgia Lodi1 &
Gianluca Merendino3 & Misael Mongiovì1 &
Valentina Presutti1 & Salvatore Davide Rapisarda2 &
Salvo Rosa2 & Emanuele Spampinato5
Received: 10 November 2015 /Accepted: 20 January 2016 /
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defined by the media as a flexible (enable the addition of any kind of application or
service) and open (enable access to open services) Italian Bcloud^ that allows public
administrations to access to a vast knowledge base represented as linked open data to
be reused by a stakeholder community with the aim of developing new applications
(BCloud Apps^) tailored to the specific needs of citizens. The platform has been used
by Catania and Syracuse municipalities, two of the main cities of southern Italy, located
J Knowl Econ (2016) 7:388–412
DOI 10.1007/s13132-016-0361-0
* Diego Reforgiato Recupero
[email protected]
1 National Research Council (CNR), Via Gaifami 18, 95126 Catania, Italy
2 Sielte, Via Cerza 4, 95027 San Gregorio di Catania, Italy
3 Datanet, Syracuse, Contrada Targia 58, 96100 Syracuse, Italy
4 Paris Nord University, Sorbonne Citè CNRS UMR7030, France
5 Etna Hitech, Viale Africa 31, 95129 Catania, Italy
6 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
http://www.ponsmartcities-prisma.it/
http://www.ponsmartcities-prisma.it/
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whole region (local developers have already used available application programming
interfaces (APIs) to create additional services for citizens and administrations) to such
an extent that other provinces of Sicily and Italy in general expressed their interest for
its usage. The platform is available online and, as mentioned above, is open source and
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computing
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Challenges, Opportunities and Risks for a Smart Future
1. 1
Challenges,
Opportunities
and Risks for a
Smart Future
Internet of Things,
Mobility and Smart City
Authors:
Diana Beata Krüger
Katharina v. Sohlern
Felix M. Wieduwilt
Curated by
Harald Neidhardt
ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
2. 2
IMPRINT
PUBLISHER
MLOVE ConFestival UG
Am Int. Seegerichtshof 20
22609 Hamburg
CEO & Curator:
Harald Neidhardt
harald@mlove.com
+49 160 94477555
mlove.com
AUTHORS
VISITOR FIRST
Diana Beata Krüger
Katharina v. Sohlern
Felix M. Widuwilt
mail@visitorfirst.com
+49 40 6485 7591
visitorfirst.com
ARTWORK
Henning Neidhardt
les amis design
COPYRIGHT
This study is intellectual
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represented by Diana Beata
Krüger, Katharina v. Sohlern, and
Felix M. Wieduwilt and curated
by MLOVE ConFestival UG,
represented by Harald Neidhardt
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INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
SMART TECHNOLOGY & CITY
SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
SMART FUTURE & THE INDIVIDUAL
RÉSUMÉ
PROSPECT
ABOUT ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
ABOUT MLOVE
ABOUT VISITOR FIRST
3. 3
INTRODUCTION
We live in times that are as exciting as unsure at once. For many
it is the most stunning and promising era in human society and
for others it is a scary derangement of the old world. To find a
path which leads us into a great future we created a comprehen-
sive study to get insights about possible ways and hypotheses.
MLOVE and VISITOR FIRST plan to expand their initial
scoping research on the relations between people and future
technologies of Mobility, Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart
Cities. It considers important questions such as the conse-
quences of bringing cutting edge technology into everyday life
and the hopes, visions and fears tied to this process. The social
frameworks that produce these technologies will also be analy-
zed.
MLOVE is a global community that brings together CEOs, CMOs,
innovators and startup entrepreneurs from across multiple disci-
plines to share, learn and inspire ideas with an array of scientists,
artists and other pioneers.
In VISITOR FIRST, MLOVE found a partner with several years
of experience in the field of ethnographic research and holistic
research designs within a business context.
INTRODUCTION
“Our future is accelerating at an unprecedented speed.
While society embraces digital innovation & smart
technologies, we have to make sure to reflect upon its
opportunities, challenges, ethics and a vision to advan-
ce humankind in a meaningful way.”
Harald Neidhardt,
CEO & Curator, MLOVE
4. 4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
“So I think my perception of a smart city will
be a city that can learn from its inhabitants
and can do something with the data. Not just
learn from it but actually help create a diffe-
rent environment.”
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
For the study, VISITOR FIRST designed a special research
model based on the method of ethnographic research. This
social research method relies on in-depth interviews, participant
observation and associative procedures. The first interviews are
conducted with experts participating at the MLOVE ConFestival
2015 in Hamburg and are documented on video.
In total, 12 experts from the fields of Smart Cities, Mobility,
Governance and IoT were interviewed on camera, four of them
female and eight male. The age span ranged between 26 - 60
years. The video documentation contains 22 hours of in depth
interviews. Data was gathered in the following topics:
1. SMART TECH & SMART CITY
2. SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
3. SMART FUTURE & THE INDIVIDUAL
The first key findings of the study are presented to you as part
of the MLOVE FutureCity Campus and will lay the foundation
of a broader research program. The following text presents an
overview of the collected data.
6. 6
SMART TECHNOLOGY & SMART CITY
SMART TECHNOLOGY & SMART CITY
The key question in this part of the study was how these two
concepts are defined and put in relation to each other.
SMART TECHNOLOGIES
We found two concepts of Smart Technologies to be prevailing.
The first concept follows a technical approach: Smart
technologies are considered to be an advanced holistic system,
which is supposed to be perfectly functioning. By sensing the
surroundings and gathering data, they are able to react to and
modify changing environments.
The second concept puts a focus on the relation between
humans and technology. Smart Technologies are seen as tools
with the potential to free humans from tasks and provide time
to focus on other aspects of human life, such as creativity and
passions. On an individual level, it is seen as a means to support
a more sustainable lifestyle:
On macro level, it can potentially help to create a more integra-
tive society by e.g. providing tools for global communication or
devices to support challenged people with disabilities. A point
stressed by many participants is that technology should not
replace humans but expand their scope for action.
“Technology that makes our ordinary life easier. We
don’t have to think about how we are using water or
light because it’s already there. It helps us in our daily
life to be a better person.”
7. 7
SMART CITY
Our findings highlight two aspects of Smart Cities.
One aspect emphasizes the technical functioning: by
adding sensors to objects and elements of the city it is possible to
gather big amounts of data about the behavior of its citizens. By
evaluating and connecting the data, solutions can be found to
optimize life:
This urban landscape is considered to be more efficient in
ordertoprovidebetteraccesstoe.g.information,communication,
participation and in general to a more sustainable lifestyle.
“So I think my perception of a smart city will be a
city that can learn from its inhabitants and can do
something with the data. Not just learn from it but
actually help create a different environment.”
SMART TECHNOLOGY & SMART CITY
8. 8
In addition, the majority of the respondents felt that the focus
should be on the citizens and not on the technical side:
A smart citizen is considered to connect their life to the resources
and services of the city and to use them in a smart way. Many
participants think that the implementation of measures that
lead the city to become a smart city has to be introduced and
developed by the citizens in order to be accepted:
Few stated that the process has to be introduced top-down by the
administration.
The majority of the respondents see Smart Technologies as one
of the key factors to create Smart Cities. One position pointed
out, that smart cities are not necessarily dependent on new
technologies. The quality or advancement of technology
must not be confused with its application or effectiveness.
A Smart City is therefore an integrated city with good communi-
cation between citizens, public and the private sector.
“We don‘t need technologies beyond those that we
have now, to create very, very smart cities that are
socially and culturally integrated with existing social
media and professional networking platforms.”
“Smart city really is about the people, not so much
about its transistors.”
“If you want the technology to be accepted by the citi-
zens, it has to be designed by the citizens, otherwise they
would be sceptical about it.”
SMART TECHNOLOGY & SMART CITY
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SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
This part of the study considers the challenges, opportunities and
risks of a smart future for society. The influences of developments
in the fields of Mobility, Smart Technologies and IoT become
evident in the following subcategories.
ENVIRONMENT
Our respondents observed that an interest in environmental
issues and sustainability becomes increasingly compulsory and
natural for citizens. Technology is seen as a potential means to
decrease negative effects of climate change. At the same time,
there is a strong consciousness of future fundamental shifts due
to the rapidly changing environment caused by an overall use of
technology.
“As technologies accelerate, the way the world is
changing, the risks to the environments, and to our
status quo of lives accelerates, all those things create
fundamentally more instability in terms of how
governments work, how societies work, how
cultures develop.”
SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
11. 11
CULTURE
Smart technology is considered useful during the daily usage.
The overall connectivity at any time is perceived as practical, but
also as negative. We observed a longing for times of freedom
and serendipity that are not driven by the maxim of smart
technologies, which is perceived as rational and efficient.
The majority of the respondents prefers to be disconnected from
time to time e.g. during weekends.
Technologies are also perceived to give a false sense of
connectivity and lead to a loss of social competence and
the quality of real human communication and interactions.
Another concern is to be manipulated and controlled by tech-
nology. Moreover, participants were worried about privacy.
The constant measuring, localization and verifiability of
human behavior are seen as restriction of freedom for the
individual.
“I think we need to draw a line there. The human
mind needs to understand that technology should help
the individual not make it loose connection to reality.
I don’t want us to become a Matrix – plugged into a
virtual system.”
SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
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GOVERNMENT
Regarding the development of smart cities, one aspect is the
government’s responsibility for handling data and privacy
guidelines. Respondents were concerned that in the case of
misuse, people will create parallel non-digital systems, which
might lead to a retreat into the “analog” sphere. Governments are
challenged to include their citizens in a real democratic decisi-
on-making process to provide transparency. One critical aspect
mentioned was the observed shift of power from states to
private corporations; therefore, governmental regulations have
to be strictly mandatory. This leads to a question, which has not
been answered yet by our respondents: how will technologies
accelerate or influence the social justice issues in a positive
or negative way?
Another critical aspect is the pace of technological development,
which is much faster than the adaptability and agency of
governments. This might lead to conflicts in the area of law and
society. The highest risk is seen in the dependency on electric
power of smart technologies and cities, as well as their likelihood
to get attacked.
“All of these (smart technologies) fundamentally can
have a positive impact – they are things that enhan-
ce the human experience. How they are implemented
and how they are used, determines if they could also
be used in negative ways in terms of creating more
exaggerated social injustice situations.”
SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
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BODY & HEALTH
Our respondents reported that by getting smaller devices,
technologies will be integrated in material and the human body.
Wearables are seen as the frontier to biotech and give people an
extra layer of intelligence by using them. Concerns were stated
about whether these technologies, if they are not used in the
medical field, are actually useful or necessary. Collected data
about body functions by e.g. wearables is not necessarily seen
as the ultimate enhancement to control the body but rather as
annoying:
Big hopes are tied to the field of bacteria biotech and its use in
medicine.
“I think people don’t really need this technology if you
already have the better life. Maybe it can also make
people angry when they see the data of not being
healthy and it can put more pressure on to you. It can
make your life even more stressful when you look at
the data constantly.”
SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
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WORK
For the future of work, a big challenge is seen due to the
process of informalization. New technological developments,
such as mobile tech, that make physical presence in an office
obsolete, or the replacement of human workforce by
machines lead to the necessity to rethink and redefine the
concept of work. One respondent even considers the concept
of employment as a 20th century idea. Another concern is
that the competition between humans and machines about
work will lead to unemployment and ultimately a higher rate
of suicides, especially amongst the elderly struggling to adapt.
SMART FUTURE & SOCIETY
16. 16
SMART FUTURE & THE INDIVIDUAL
This part of the study focuses on the challenges, opportunities
and risks of a smart future on an individual level.
We found a strong interest in human centric approaches and
technologies that are developed with a focus on human behavior.
In order to design a better future, a set of values has to be added
to technological developments, especially in the field of artificial
intelligence.
Several of the respondents see a high potential of technologies
contributing to important improvements, like the development
of a more tolerant and integrated society or solutions to
environmental problems:
“Shared values are agreed values by the whole
thinking world. The most important value is life itself
which must be protected; the person is important.”
“Some days, with the amounts of hate in the world,
it’s hard to belief that these things will be used in a
positive manner. On the other hand I think life has
been improving for most of the population of the
world and there is hope. (...) I’m optimistic that we as
a species will become more integrated, communicate
better, appreciate each others cultures and as result
will find ways to move forward in a positive manner.”
SMART FUTURE & THE INDIVIDUAL
17. 17
However, there are also concerns about whether humanity
will be able to keep up with future environmental, social and
political challenges:
Other points of critique are the lack of a neutral discourse about
those topics in current society and the problem of a perceived
digital analphabetism.
Also, it is called into question whether the government or
administration will be able to keep up with the pace of technical
development and innovation and implement the necessary chan-
ges in the legislation and organization of society.
“We fucked up super fast the world but we haven’t
been in such a place in history to unfuck it superfast
either.”
“We are just part of a universe what we barely under-
stand. It’s surely changing and we have no idea how
it’s changing. We have a lot to catch up. We have so
many problems on earth to deal with in society I don’t
know if we will have this kind of revolution (living on
other planets) to be able to pattern the universe.”
“Maybe we are making the world a little bit better
with all the smart gadgets and all and urban living
but I think we do that because we have to change so-
mething but we will never be a species that is caring
for other things. We just care for us.”
“We don’t know what future is, futurists don’t agree
and the economists don’t agree, so the only thing
there is to do is to experiment a lot (...) and have some
sense of ethics about how you’re designing things.”
SMART FUTURE & THE INDIVIDUAL
“The biggest challenge, however, is for individuals and
society to design their future responsibly.”
19. 19
RÉSUMÉ
The impact of future technological developments on society is
perceived as highly ambiguous by our respondents. The overall
predicted digitalization in “Smart Cities” is supposed to bring a
more efficient practice to the communal life on every level. Smart
technologies are thereby mostly seen as tools to cater the
needs of the citizens. In order to be accepted by the citizens,
the city has to be designed human centered.
Huge uncertainties are being expressed about the impact of
future technological developments on society. On the one
hand, there is a potential of finding solutions to global
problems such as climate change, diseases or poverty. But the
respondents are also aware of potential risks amplified by
technologies which could lead to dependency, misuse and more
social injustice. There are huge concerns about the place of the
human in a society which is more and more shaped and
influenced by machines and A.I.. In order to keep control of
such developments, it is necessary to design technologies with
human values and create systems of control and regulation
on a national and global level.
On the individual level, technologies are perceived as useful and
a possible support to lead a healthier and more sustainable
lifestyle. Smart technologies, such as smartphones and laptops,
are highly valued especially in the field of communications. At
the same time, their influence on (consumer) choices and on the
quality of human interaction is called into question. Ultimately,
the feeling of being connected all the time is perceived as a
lack of freedom.
RÉSUMÉ
20. 20
PROSPECT
This expose is a foundation to showcase the complexity and
profundity of an unsure smart future. Further studies will go
deeper in the field of Smart Future to research in areas like
media, mobility, health, biotech, finance, and AI. More
detailed studies combined with the foundation of this paper
will bring a comprehensive prospect on upcoming technological
developments in different fields. For more information please
contact us and we are pleased to help you.
PROSPECT
21. 21
ABOUT APPLIED ETHNOGRAPIC RESEARCH
The method of ethnography was pioneered in the social and
cultural branches of anthropology. It is designed to explore and
describe human cultures from the point of view of the subject
of the study. Thereby, it helps to gain a deep insight into the
systems of meaning and patterns of behavior of the socie-
ty in focus. The combination of (participant) observation and
in-depth interviews allows discovering tacit knowledge and
(hidden) needs. This is a great advantage over quantitative
methods, which often times lack the sensitivity to measure these
factors.
The typical ethnography is a holistic study and so it also includes
important aspects such as the social and political context, historic
facts and other quantitative data. Unlike traditional market rese-
arches, which focus on specific and highly practical questions,
anthropological researchers visit consumers in their homes or
offices to observe and listen in a nondirected way. The goal is
to see and understand people’s behavior on their terms. This
empirical and inductive approach often times leads to different
outcomes than expected at the beginning of the study.
All this makes ethnography the perfect method to discover the
unknown and reveal unexpected insights – and an interesting
tool for companies and organizations working with a customer-
centric approach. It can help to identify customer needs that
have yet to be met and test market demand for products that
do not exist. It provides a holistic view of a problem space and
exposes opportunities for competitive differentiation. It enables
companies to understand the human in terms of cultural trends,
lifestyle factors, attitudes and how social context influences pro-
duct selection and usage. Therefore, it allows to create an experi-
ence, that is fully satisfying the needs of the customer.
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ABOUT MLOVE
MLOVE is a global community that shares a passion to drive the
future of Mobility, Internet of Things and Smart Cities.
Since 2010, MLOVE is creating inspiring event experiences like
at a 400-year-old castle North of Hamburg, Germany, or at
amazing locations in Silicon Valley or Barcelona. MLOVE
SalonsareorganizedlocallyinvariouscitieslikeSingapore,Tokyo,
Vienna, Dublin, London and Austin.
MLOVE events bring together CEOs, CMOs, innovators and
startup entrepreneurs from across multiple disciplines to share,
learn and cross-pollinate ideas with an array of scientists, artists
and other thought leaders.
The events are designed to maximize the opportunity of sharing
life-changing services and applications that can impact us all
for the better. An important part of the events are creative
collisions, provocative insights and some part of an collaborative
un-conference.
www.mlove.com
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ABOUT VISITOR FIRST
VISITOR FIRST is a consultancy for visitor experiences. We
consult enterprises, startups and the public sector on how to
optimize products, brands and experiences. As experts for
qualitative research we define hopes, worries, expectations, and
dreams to localize and evaluate the visitors problems and needs
in daily life, which leads back to a better product and service. We
always ask why people do how they do. Henceforth, we can easily
spot the real matter: the human being.
www.visitorfirst.com
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