From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
Open smart cities might become a reality for Canada. Globally there are a number of initiatives, programs, and practices that are open smart city like which means that it is possible to have an open, responsive and engaged city that is both socio-technologically enabled, but also one where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg). For an open smart city to exist, public officials, the private sector, scholars, civil society and residents and citizens require a definition and a guide to start the exercise of imagining what an open smart city might look like. There is much critical scholarship about the smart city and there are many counter smart city narratives, but there are few depictions of what engagement, participatory design and technological leadership might be. The few examples that do exist are project based and few are systemic. An open smart city definition and guide was therefore created by a group of stakeholders in such a way that it can be used as the basis for the design of an open smart city from the ground up, or to help actors shape or steer the course of emerging or ongoing data and networked urbanist forms (Kitchin) of smart cities to lead them towards being open, engaged and receptive to technological citizenship.
This talk will discuss some of the successes resulting from this Open Smart Cities work, which might also be called a form or engaged scholarship. For example the language for the call for tender of the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge was modified to include as a requisite that engagement and openness be part of the submissions from communities. Also, those involved with the guide have been writing policy articles that critique either AI or the smart city while also offering examples of what is possible. These articles are being read by proponents of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Also, the global Open Data Conference held in Argentina in September of 2018 hosted a full workshop on Open Smart Cities and finally Open North is working toward developing key performance indicators to assess those shortlisted by Infrastructure Canada and to help those communities develop an Open Smart Cities submission. The objective of the talk is to demonstrate that it is actually possible to shift public policy on large infrastructure projects, at least, in the short term.
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
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
Introduction to the Programmable City ProjectProgCity
Rob Kitchin, PI Programmable City Project, NIRSA, NUIM
An overview of The Programmable City project, the ideas underpinning the research and the prospective case studies.
ICTs for development: from e-Readiness to e-AwarenessIsmael Peña-López
Seminar given in Barcelona, November 20th, 2007 at the Executive Master in e-Governance, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=801
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
A short set of slides that accompanied my thoughts as a discussant on papers presented at the alt.conference on Big Data at the Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-12, 2014
Tracey P. Lauriault (Programmable City team)
A genealogy of open data assemblages
Abstract: Evidence informed decision making, participatory public policy, government transparency and accountability, sustainable development, and data driven journalism were the initial drivers of making public data accessible. The access work of geomaticians, researchers, librarians, community developers and journalists has recently been recast as open data that includes a different set of actors. As open data matures as a practice, its principles, definitions and guidelines have been transformed into national performance indicators such as indexes, barometers, ratings and score cards; the private sector such as Gartner, McKinsey, and Deloitte are touting open data's innovation and business opportunities; while smart city initiatives offer tools and expertise to help government sense, monitor, measure and evaluate their cities. Open data today seems to have evolved far from its original ideals, even with civil society players such as Markets for Good, Sunlight Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation, Code for America, and many others advocating for more social approaches. This talk proposes an assemblage approach to understanding open data and provides a genealogy of its development in different contexts and places.
Bio: Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City Project Postdoctoral Researcher focussing on How are digital data generated and processed about cities and their citizens? She arrives from Canada where she was a researcher with the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre, at Carleton University, where she investigated Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations, spatial data infrastructures, open data and the preservation of and access to research and geomatics data; legal and policy issues associated with geospatial, administrative and civil society data; and cybercartography. She is a a member of the international Research Data Alliance Legal (RDA) Interoperability Working Group, the Natural Resources Canada Roundtable on Geomatics Legal and Policy Interest Group. She is also actively engaged in public policy research as it pertains to open data and their related infrastructures.
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
Introduction to the Programmable City ProjectProgCity
Rob Kitchin, PI Programmable City Project, NIRSA, NUIM
An overview of The Programmable City project, the ideas underpinning the research and the prospective case studies.
ICTs for development: from e-Readiness to e-AwarenessIsmael Peña-López
Seminar given in Barcelona, November 20th, 2007 at the Executive Master in e-Governance, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=801
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
A short set of slides that accompanied my thoughts as a discussant on papers presented at the alt.conference on Big Data at the Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-12, 2014
After analysing the key AI technologies that can be applied in the public sector, the course gives an overview of potential applications (e.g. chatbots, intelligent agents, decision making algorithms, machine learning systems, etc) in various European countries and sectors of the economy. Furthermore, the aims, the benefits and the possible challenges and risks of such applications are being presented, together with the means for risk mitigation. The course also presents the main initiatives for promoting , monitoring and regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector, in Europe and the world.
April 4, 2019, 17:30-19:30
IOG's Policy Crunch
Disruptive Innovation and Public Policy in the Digital Age event series
The Global Race in Digital Governance
https://iog.ca/events/the-global-race-in-digital-governance/
The Real-Time City? Data-driven, networked urbanism and the production of sm...robkitchin
Keynote talk presented at IGU Urban conference in Dublin, August 9th. The paper discusses the transition from data-informed to data-driven, smart cities and the impact of such a transition on city governance and wider society.
Robert Bradshaw, Smart Bikeshare
Dr Sophia Maalsen, How are discourses and practices of city governance translated into code?
Jim Merricks White, Towards a Digital Urban Commons:Developing a situated computing praxis for a more direct democracy
Alan Moore, The Role of Dublin in the Global Innovation Network of Cloud Computing
Dr Leighton Evans, How does software alter the forms and nature of work?
Darach Mac Donncha,‘How software is discursively produced and legitimised by vested interests’
Dr Sung-Yueh Perng, Programming Urban Lives
Dr Gavin McArdle, NCG, NIRSA, NUIM, Dublin Dashboard Performance Indicators & Metrics
This paper was presented at the 'Towards a Magna Carta for Data' workshop at the RDS in Dublin, Sept 17th. It discusses how considerations of the ethics of big data consist of much more than the issues of privacy and security that it often gets boiled down to, and argues that the various ethical issues related to big data are multidimensional and contested; vary in nature across domains, and which ethical philosophy is adopted matters to the deliberation over data rights.
Martin Dodge (Department of Geography, University of Manchester)
Code and Conveniences
Abstract: In this talk I want to think about where code is at work in world and for what purposes. Playing on the popularist notion that technologies bring greater convenience to modern life, this talk looks at specifically at ‘conveniences’, an apposite space of modernity. I will analyse how public toilet spaces are being reshaped, with sensor technologies and software processes deployed that seek to render toileting practices into a sequence of touch-free activities, and attempt to diminish direct handling of the materiality of the bathroom surfaces and fixtures. Driven by a range of modernist discourses around hygiene, ease-of-use, and efficiency, it is apparent that many public toilets are now sites of code which reacts to humans without direct touch. However, the logics of software enabled automation able to overcome the fear of contamination and subconscious disgust at direct touching of surfaces shared with strange bodies is often nullified because the actual deployment of touch-free sensors is typically incomplete. The talk will conclude by considering why the spaces of touch are likely only ever to be partially reconfigurable by software technologies, and what this might mean for the algorithmic automation of other everyday environment and tactile activities.
Bio: Martin Dodge is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of
Manchester, and his research focuses primarily on the politics of mapping
technologies, new modes of geographic visualisation, and cultural
understandings of urban infrastructures. He curated from 1997 to 2007 the
well-known web-based Atlas of Cyberspaces and has co-authored three
books analysing technologies: Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000), Atlas
of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Code/Space (MIT Press, 2011). He
has co-edited four books on cartographic theory and mapping practice:
Geographic Visualization (Wiley, 2008), Rethinking Maps (Routledge, 2009),
Classics in Cartography (Wiley, 2010) and The Map Reader (Wiley, 2011).
http://cyberbadger.blogspot.co.uk/
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//martin/martin.html
This slide set examines the contention that opening data is an inherently good thing - that the case for open data is an open and shut case. It sets out a contrary view that whilst open data is desirable, much more critical thinking is required as to what this means in practice and the possible negative implications of opening data, and calls for a wider debate about the relative merits and politics of open data and how we go about opening data.
The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution: concepts and figuresIsmael Peña-López
It is usual to think about the digital divide as a very concrete aspect of the impact of ICTs, mainly concerning whether there is an existence of infrastructures (sometimes computers, sometimes computers connected to the Internet).
It is usual to think about digital literacy as the ability of someone to switch on a computer and playing some cards game, sending an e-mail and, optimistically, run some word processor and type in a love letter.
It is usual to think about ICTs as something that won’t make disappear the hunger in the world or heal the thousands of people suffering from countless diseases, specially in places where citizens live with less than one dollar a day.
It is usual to think about the digital divide as something that does not affect me, as I live on the sunny side of the world, in a developed country that will last this way for centuries.
With the aim to dismantle all these (almost) false assumptions, the seminar will try and give "correct" definitions for concepts such as Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, eReadiness or eAwareness and show examples on how ICTs can help underdeveloped and developing countries to reach higher quotas of welfare… and how so-called developed countries can exchange places with the lesser developed ones in case they do not pay attention to what is happening in a global world.
More info, citation and download, here: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=287
Paper presented at Code Acts in Education, an ESRC seminar at the University of Stirling, January 28th 2014, http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/seminars/
Urban indicators, city benchmarking, and real time dashboards: Knowing and go...robkitchin
Talk presented at the Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-12. First attempt at presenting a paper presently being written for publication.
Over the past three decades city infrastructure and services have increasingly become digitally networked, programmable and data-driven. Moreover, citizens now regularly use mobile spatial media to mediate their spatial behavior and urban experiences and share information via crowdsourced platforms. As a result we are ever more living in the era of smart urbanism — city systems can be operationally managed dynamically using algorithms processing urban big data, citizens can access and contribute live information about the city, and planners and policy makers can redeploy new streams of data to model and plan the city with increasing granularity. The development of smart urbanism poses opportunities and challenges for urban planning, reshaping how we come to know and govern cities, and this talk will examine these drawing on research conducted in Boston and Dublin.
The ethics and risks of urban big data and smart citiesrobkitchin
This slidedeck provides a brief introduction to the ethics and risks associated with urban big data and smart cities and was presented at the launch of the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT, Sept 2016
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
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 2 - EnglishOpen North
Slides from Open Smart Cities in Canada's first webinar.
Listen to the webinar at: https://vimeo.com/247378746
Learn more at: http://www.opennorth.ca/projects#1
After analysing the key AI technologies that can be applied in the public sector, the course gives an overview of potential applications (e.g. chatbots, intelligent agents, decision making algorithms, machine learning systems, etc) in various European countries and sectors of the economy. Furthermore, the aims, the benefits and the possible challenges and risks of such applications are being presented, together with the means for risk mitigation. The course also presents the main initiatives for promoting , monitoring and regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector, in Europe and the world.
April 4, 2019, 17:30-19:30
IOG's Policy Crunch
Disruptive Innovation and Public Policy in the Digital Age event series
The Global Race in Digital Governance
https://iog.ca/events/the-global-race-in-digital-governance/
The Real-Time City? Data-driven, networked urbanism and the production of sm...robkitchin
Keynote talk presented at IGU Urban conference in Dublin, August 9th. The paper discusses the transition from data-informed to data-driven, smart cities and the impact of such a transition on city governance and wider society.
Robert Bradshaw, Smart Bikeshare
Dr Sophia Maalsen, How are discourses and practices of city governance translated into code?
Jim Merricks White, Towards a Digital Urban Commons:Developing a situated computing praxis for a more direct democracy
Alan Moore, The Role of Dublin in the Global Innovation Network of Cloud Computing
Dr Leighton Evans, How does software alter the forms and nature of work?
Darach Mac Donncha,‘How software is discursively produced and legitimised by vested interests’
Dr Sung-Yueh Perng, Programming Urban Lives
Dr Gavin McArdle, NCG, NIRSA, NUIM, Dublin Dashboard Performance Indicators & Metrics
This paper was presented at the 'Towards a Magna Carta for Data' workshop at the RDS in Dublin, Sept 17th. It discusses how considerations of the ethics of big data consist of much more than the issues of privacy and security that it often gets boiled down to, and argues that the various ethical issues related to big data are multidimensional and contested; vary in nature across domains, and which ethical philosophy is adopted matters to the deliberation over data rights.
Martin Dodge (Department of Geography, University of Manchester)
Code and Conveniences
Abstract: In this talk I want to think about where code is at work in world and for what purposes. Playing on the popularist notion that technologies bring greater convenience to modern life, this talk looks at specifically at ‘conveniences’, an apposite space of modernity. I will analyse how public toilet spaces are being reshaped, with sensor technologies and software processes deployed that seek to render toileting practices into a sequence of touch-free activities, and attempt to diminish direct handling of the materiality of the bathroom surfaces and fixtures. Driven by a range of modernist discourses around hygiene, ease-of-use, and efficiency, it is apparent that many public toilets are now sites of code which reacts to humans without direct touch. However, the logics of software enabled automation able to overcome the fear of contamination and subconscious disgust at direct touching of surfaces shared with strange bodies is often nullified because the actual deployment of touch-free sensors is typically incomplete. The talk will conclude by considering why the spaces of touch are likely only ever to be partially reconfigurable by software technologies, and what this might mean for the algorithmic automation of other everyday environment and tactile activities.
Bio: Martin Dodge is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of
Manchester, and his research focuses primarily on the politics of mapping
technologies, new modes of geographic visualisation, and cultural
understandings of urban infrastructures. He curated from 1997 to 2007 the
well-known web-based Atlas of Cyberspaces and has co-authored three
books analysing technologies: Mapping Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000), Atlas
of Cyberspace (Addison-Wesley, 2001) and Code/Space (MIT Press, 2011). He
has co-edited four books on cartographic theory and mapping practice:
Geographic Visualization (Wiley, 2008), Rethinking Maps (Routledge, 2009),
Classics in Cartography (Wiley, 2010) and The Map Reader (Wiley, 2011).
http://cyberbadger.blogspot.co.uk/
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//martin/martin.html
This slide set examines the contention that opening data is an inherently good thing - that the case for open data is an open and shut case. It sets out a contrary view that whilst open data is desirable, much more critical thinking is required as to what this means in practice and the possible negative implications of opening data, and calls for a wider debate about the relative merits and politics of open data and how we go about opening data.
The Digital Divides or the third industrial revolution: concepts and figuresIsmael Peña-López
It is usual to think about the digital divide as a very concrete aspect of the impact of ICTs, mainly concerning whether there is an existence of infrastructures (sometimes computers, sometimes computers connected to the Internet).
It is usual to think about digital literacy as the ability of someone to switch on a computer and playing some cards game, sending an e-mail and, optimistically, run some word processor and type in a love letter.
It is usual to think about ICTs as something that won’t make disappear the hunger in the world or heal the thousands of people suffering from countless diseases, specially in places where citizens live with less than one dollar a day.
It is usual to think about the digital divide as something that does not affect me, as I live on the sunny side of the world, in a developed country that will last this way for centuries.
With the aim to dismantle all these (almost) false assumptions, the seminar will try and give "correct" definitions for concepts such as Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, eReadiness or eAwareness and show examples on how ICTs can help underdeveloped and developing countries to reach higher quotas of welfare… and how so-called developed countries can exchange places with the lesser developed ones in case they do not pay attention to what is happening in a global world.
More info, citation and download, here: http://ictlogy.net/bibciter/reports/projects.php?idp=287
Paper presented at Code Acts in Education, an ESRC seminar at the University of Stirling, January 28th 2014, http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/seminars/
Urban indicators, city benchmarking, and real time dashboards: Knowing and go...robkitchin
Talk presented at the Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-12. First attempt at presenting a paper presently being written for publication.
Over the past three decades city infrastructure and services have increasingly become digitally networked, programmable and data-driven. Moreover, citizens now regularly use mobile spatial media to mediate their spatial behavior and urban experiences and share information via crowdsourced platforms. As a result we are ever more living in the era of smart urbanism — city systems can be operationally managed dynamically using algorithms processing urban big data, citizens can access and contribute live information about the city, and planners and policy makers can redeploy new streams of data to model and plan the city with increasing granularity. The development of smart urbanism poses opportunities and challenges for urban planning, reshaping how we come to know and govern cities, and this talk will examine these drawing on research conducted in Boston and Dublin.
The ethics and risks of urban big data and smart citiesrobkitchin
This slidedeck provides a brief introduction to the ethics and risks associated with urban big data and smart cities and was presented at the launch of the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT, Sept 2016
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
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 2 - EnglishOpen North
Slides from Open Smart Cities in Canada's first webinar.
Listen to the webinar at: https://vimeo.com/247378746
Learn more at: http://www.opennorth.ca/projects#1
A Tale of Open Data Innovations in Five Smart CitiesAdegboyega Ojo
Open Data initiatives are increasingly considered as defining elements of emerging smart cities. However, few studies have attempted to provide a better understanding of the nature of this convergence and the impact on both domains. This paper presents findings from a detailed study of 18 open data initiatives across five smart cities – Barcelona, Chicago, Manchester, Amsterdam and Helsinki. Specifically, the study sought to understand how open data programs are shaped by the different smart cities contexts and concomitantly what kinds of innovations are enabled by open data in these cities. The findings highlight the specific impacts of open data innovation on the different smart cities domains, governance of the cities, and the nature of datasets available in the open data ecosystem.
Open Data initiatives are increasingly considered
as defining elements of emerging smart cities.
However, few studies have attempted to provide a
better understanding of the nature of this convergence
and the impact on both domains. This paper presents
findings from a detailed study of 18 open data
initiatives across five smart cities – Barcelona,
Chicago, Manchester, Amsterdam, and Helsinki.
Specifically, the study sought to understand how open
data initiatives are shaped by the different smart cities
contexts and concomitantly what kinds of innovations
are enabled by open data in these cities. The findings
highlight the specific impacts of open data innovation
on the different smart cities domains, governance of
the cities, and the nature of datasets available in the
open data ecosystem.
Link to the paper: http://conferences.computer.org/hicss/2015/papers/7367c326.pdf
Presentation #2:Open/Big Urban DataLessons Learned from the Programmable City ProjectMansion House, Dublin, May 9th, 201810am-2pmhttp://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/2018/03/lessons-for-smart-cities-from-the-programmable-city-project/
Cottbus Brandenburg University of Technology Lecture series on Smart RegionsCritically Assembling Data, Processes & Things: Toward and Open Smart CityJune 5, 2018
This lecture will critically focus on smart cities from a data based socio-technological assemblage approach. It is a theoretical and methodological framework that allows for an empirical examination of how smart cities are socially and technically constructed, and to study them as discursive regimes and as a large technological infrastructural systems.
The lecture will refer to the research outcomes of the ERC funded Programmable City Project led by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University and will feature examples of empirical research conducted in Dublin and other Irish cities.
In addition, the lecture will discuss the research outcomes of the Canadian Open Smart Cities project funded by the Government of Canada GeoConnections Program. Examples will be drawn from five case studies namely about the cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Ottawa and Montreal, and the Ontario Smart Grid as well as number of international best practices. The recent Infrastructure Canada Canadian Smart City Challenge and the controversial Sidewalk Lab Waterfront Toronto project will also be discussed.
It will be argued that no two smart cities are alike although the technological solutionist and networked urbanist approaches dominate and it is suggested that these kind of smart cities may not live up to the promise of being better places to live.
In this lecture, the ideals of an Open Smart City are offered instead and in this kind of city residents, civil society, academics, and the private sector collaborate with public officials to mobilize data and technologies when warranted in an ethical, accountable and transparent way in order to govern the city as a fair, viable and livable commons that balances economic development, social progress and environmental responsibility. Although an Open Smart City does not yet exist, it will be argued that it is possible.
Open Data Innovation in Smart Cities: Challenges and TrendsEdward Curry
Open Data initiatives are increasingly considered as defining elements of emerging smart cities. However, few studies have attempted to provide a better understanding of the nature of this convergence and the impact on both domains. This talk examines the challenges and trends with open data initiatives using a socio-technical perspective of smart cities. The talk presents findings from a detailed study of 18 open data initiatives across five smart cities to identify emerging best practice. Three distinct waves of open data innovation for smart cities are discussed. The talk details the specific impacts of open data innovation on the different smart cities domains, governance of the cities, and the nature of datasets available in the open data ecosystem within smart cities.
BU3561 - Services and Information Management
School of Business
Trinity College Dublin
Week 11, 23 March 2015
9-11 AM
Tracey P. Lauriault
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Lecture:
Evidence-Informed Decision Making
BU3561 - Services and Information Management
School of Business
Trinity College Dublin
Week 11, 23 March 2015
9-11 AM
Tracey P. Lauriault
Programmable City Project, NIRSA, Maynooth University
Presented by: Jean-Noe Landry (Open North) & Dr Tracey P. Lauriault (Carleton University) & Rachel Bloom (Open North)
Content Contributors: David Fewer CIPPIC, Mark Fox U. of Toronto, Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Partner Cities: City of Edmonton, City of Guelph, Ville de Montréal & City of Ottawa
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: August 30, 2017
Local Open Data: A perspective from local government in England by Gesche SchmidOpening-up.eu
Local Open Data: A perspective from local government in England
to help government and companies to
develop innovative services through the
use of open data and to encourage smart
use of Social Media
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
Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 1 - EnglishOpen North
Slides presented for Open Smart Cities in Canada's first webinar.
Listen to the webinar at: https://bit.ly/2HH7x29
Learn more about the project at:
http://www.opennorth.ca/projects#1
Smart Cities and Big Data - Research Presentationannegalang
Research presentation on smart cities (sensor technology) and big data, presented in a graduate course I took on Transmedia Design and Digital Culture.
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Week 13 (Apr. 8) – Assemblages, Genealogies and Dynamic Nominalism
Course description:
The emphasis is to learn to envision data genealogically, as a social and technical assemblages, as infrastructure and reframe them beyond technological conceptions. During the term we will explore data, facts and truth; the power of data both big and small; governmentality and biopolitics; risk, probability and the taming of chance; algorithmic culture, dynamic nominalism, categorization and ontologies; the translation of people, space and social phenomena into and by data and software and the role of data in the production of knowledge.
This class format is a graduate MA seminar and a collaborative workshop. We will work with Ottawa Police Services and critically examine the socio-technological data assemblage of that institution. This includes a fieldtrip to the Elgin street station; a tour of the 911 Communication Centre and we will meet with data experts.
March 25, 2019, 9:30 AM
International Meeting of NAICS code Experts
Statistics Canada
Simon Goldberg Room, RH Coats building
100 Tunney’s Pasture Driveway
With research contributions by Ben Wright, Carleton University and Dustin Moores, University of Ottawa
Presented at the:
Canadian Aviation Safety Collaboration Forum
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Montreal, QC
January 23, 2019
This presentation was made in real-time while attending the Forum. The objective was to observe and listen, and share some examples outside of this community that may provide insight about data sharing models with a focus on governance.
This week we will learn about user generated content (UGC), citizen science, crowdsourcing & volunteered geographic information (VGI). We will also discuss divergent views on data humanitarianism.
Conference of Irish Geographies 2018
The Earth as Our Home
Automating Homelessness May 12, 2018
The research for these studies is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
Financé par : GéoConnexions
Dirigé par : Nord Ouvert
Le noyau de l’équipe :
Rachel Bloom et Jean-Noé Landry, Nord Ouvert
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, Clinique d’intérêt public et de politique d’Internet du Canada (CIPPIC)
Dr Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Assistant et assistante de recherche, Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
AoIR 2017
Panel 17 Dorpat-Ewers, Tartu 9-10:30AM
Data Driven Ontology Practices
The Real world objects of Ordnance Survey Ireland
Abstract is available here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir2017/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=258&presentations=show
Government Information Day
Oct. 26, Library and Archives Canada
10:45 – 12:30 Government information & data ecosystem
Data Diversity & Data Cultures = Flexible Open by Default Policy
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2017/government-information-day.aspx
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Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
This presentation, created by Syed Faiz ul Hassan, explores the profound influence of media on public perception and behavior. It delves into the evolution of media from oral traditions to modern digital and social media platforms. Key topics include the role of media in information propagation, socialization, crisis awareness, globalization, and education. The presentation also examines media influence through agenda setting, propaganda, and manipulative techniques used by advertisers and marketers. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of surveillance enabled by media technologies on personal behavior and preferences. Through this comprehensive overview, the presentation aims to shed light on how media shapes collective consciousness and public opinion.
Collapsing Narratives: Exploring Non-Linearity • a micro report by Rosie WellsRosie Wells
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International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing
From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
1. Centre for Ethics
Ethics in the City Lecture Series
From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
January 16, 2018
16:00 PM - 18:00 PM
University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault
Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Big Data
Communication and Media Studies,
School of Journalism and Communication
Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Tracey.Lauriault@Carleton.ca
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-2738
2. Seminar
1. Technological Citizenship
2. Openness
3. Critical Data Studies
4. Theoretical framework
• Assemblage
• Social-Shaping
5. Open Smart Cities
• Open Smart Cities Project
• Smart City Context in Canada
• Research & Methodology
• Case Studies
• Observations
• Open Smart City Guide
6. Open Smart City Readiness
7. Q&A
4. 1.1 Technological Citizenship
• We live in a technological society
• Decisions about technology are political
• We should not leave all technological decisions to the
technocrats
• 3 preconditions for technological citizenship
• Agency
• Capacity to act – power
• Knowledge
• Those who possess those preconditions have the
responsibility to act and intervene in the technological
society Andrew Feenberg, 2011
https://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/copen5-1.pdf
5. 1.2 Data Colonialism,
• Data colonialism
• Dispossession of personal & individual data (EULA)
• Privatization of those data (by those who create the platform/app)
• Commodification of those data (resale of those data)
• Data are also colonizing lifeworlds
• Frontier mentality
• Utopic digital/data frontier
• Manifest destiny of big data systems
Thatcher, O’Sullivan & Mahmoudi, 2016
https://doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca/10.1177/0263775816633195
6. 1.3 Doing Citizenship in a Technological Society
• Technology
• assemble to form the setting where citizenship unfolds
• is part of what constitutes a good life which makes it part of politics
• and technological decisions bring forward moral and ethical issues
• Technology and citizenship are related in 3 ways:
1. Technology as a means for citizenship
2. Technology as an object
3. Technology as a setting for political judgement
• Technology ought to be politicized and technological
fundamentalism ought to be scrutinized while questions of what
is just and good should be asked.
Darin Barney, 2007
http://darinbarneyresearch.mcgill.ca/Work/One_Nation_Under_Google.pdf
8. 2.1 Openness
Open Access
Open Source
Open Data
Open Science
Open Firmware
Open Platforms
Open AI
Open Specifications
Open Standards
Open Government
Open Smart Cities
9. 2.2 Data Communities of Practice
Research/scientific
Data
GovData
GeoData
Physical
Sciences
AdminData
Public Sector Data
NGOs
Access to Data Open Data
Social
Sciences
2005
Operations Data
Infrastructural Data
Sensor Data
Social Media Data
AI/Machine Learning Data
Smart Open Data?
2015
Private Sector
IOT
- Smart Cities
- Precision Agriculture
- Autonomous Cars
SM Platforms
Algorithms
P2P – Sharing Economy
Predictive Policing
Surveillance
Digital Labour
Drones
5GPublic/Private Sector Data?
Crowdsourcing
Citizen Science
Civic Teck
OCAP
Local and
Traditional
Knowledge
12. Research and thinking that applies critical social theory to data & technology to
explore the ways in which:
Data are more than the unique arrangement of objective and
politically neutral facts
&
Understands that data do not exist independently of ideas,
techniques, technologies, systems, people and contexts
regardless of them being presented in that way
3.2 Data – big or small
Tracey P. Lauriault, 2012, Data, Infrastructures and Geographical Imaginations. Ph.D. Thesis,
Carleton University, Ottawa, http://curve.carleton.ca/theses/27431
13. 3.3 Framing Data
1. Technically
2. Ethically
3. Politically & economically
4. Spatial/Temporal
5. Philosophically
6. Technological Citizenship
7. Data Activism
Rob Kitchin, 2014, The Data Revolution, Sage.
Tracey P. Lauriault, engaged research
14. 3.4 Critical Data Studies Vision
• Unpack the complex assemblages that produce, circulate,
share/sell and utilise data in diverse ways;
• Chart the diverse work they do and their consequences for
how the world is known, governed and lived-in;
• Survey the wider landscape of data assemblages and how they
interact to form intersecting data products, services and
markets and shape policy and regulation.
Toward Critical Data Studies: Charting and Unpacking Data Assemblages and Their Work
By Rob Kitchin and Tracey P. Lauriault in Thinking Big Data in Geography New Regimes,
(Eds) Jim Thatcher, Josef Eckert, and Andrew Shears (2018)
16. 4.1 Socio-Technological Assemblage
Material Platform
(infrastructure – hardware)
Code Platform
(operating system)
Code/algorithms
(software)
Data(base)
Interface
Reception/Operation
(user/usage)
Systems of thought
Forms of knowledge
Finance
Political economies
Governmentalities - legalities
Organisations and institutions
Subjectivities and communities
Marketplace
System/process
performs a task
Context
frames the system/task
Digital socio-technical assemblage
HCI, Remediation studies
Critical code studies
Software studies
New media studies
Game studies
Critical Social Science
Science Technology Studies
Platform studies
Places
Practices
Flowline/Lifecycle
Surveillance Studies
Critical data studies
Algorithm Studies
Modified by Lauriault from Kitchin, 2014, The Data Revolution, Sage.
17. 4.2 Social-shaping qualities of data
Kitchin, 2012, Programmable City, http://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/about/
19. 5.1.1 Open Smart Cities 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
Project collaborators:
• Expert Smart City representatives
from the cities of:
1. Edmonton
2. Guelph
3. Montréal
4. Ottawa
• Collaborators include experts from
the provinces of:
1. Ontario
2. British Columbia
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
20. 5.1.2 Project Outputs
1. Executive summary of a smart city environmental scan
(E-Scan) and 5 Canadian case studies.
• This report identifies international shapers of smart cities and
their components and describes current smart city practices
across Canada.
2. Assessment of Canadian smart city practices
• In depth city profiles were developed as a result of interviews
with smart city representatives from the cities of Edmonton,
Guelph, Montreal, and Ottawa..
3. Review of selected open smart city best practices in 4
international cities (Chicago, Dublin, Helsinki, and New
York)
• The literature review focuses on approaches to open and
geospatial data standardization in a smart city context. These
cities were chosen for their innovative geospatial and open data
policies and practices.
4. Inter-jurisdictional case study
• To situate open smart city policies and data management
practices in Canada’s inter-jurisdictional context, interviews
with officials from the Province of Ontario and consulted with
officials at the Province of British Columbia.
5. Open Smart Cities FAQ
• In collaboration with the Open Smart Cities in Canada core
team, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
(CIPPIC) has created a FAQ to answer common legal and
regulatory questions about smart city technologies.
6. Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0
• This final phase of the project provides a definition for an Open
Smart City. This output intends to guide Canadian municipalities
toward co-creating Open Smart Cities with their stakeholders and
residents. Results will be disseminated broadly and were presented
during the project’s third webinar on April 17. Watch the
presentation here.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
26. 5.3.1 Data collection & Methodology
• E-Scan of 4 cities + 1 Province
1. Edmonton
2. Guelph
3. Ottawa
4. Montreal
5. Ontario Smart Grid
• Development of semi-structured
interview instrument
• City officials generously
participated in 90 min phone
interviews
• Interviews were recorded &
transcribed
• City officials responded to
follow-up questions & validated
reports
The following was collected:
• visions and strategies
• reasons for deploying smart city
initiatives
• beneficiaries
• governance models
• deployment strategies
• citizen engagement
• “openness” and open data
• access to smart city data
• smart city business models
• procurement
• challenges & benefits.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
27. 5.3.2 Smart City Actors
• Vendors
• Think tanks
• Consulting firms
• Alliances and associations
• Standards organizations
• Civil society
• Academic
• Procurement
• Guides, Playbooks, Practices
• Indicators
• Cities
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
28. 5.4 4 Canadian Cities, 1 Province,
International Best Practices
29. 5.4.1 Edmonton - Smart City Initiative
The smart city is “about
creating and nurturing a
resilient, livable, and
workable city through
the use of technology,
data and social
innovation”
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
30. 5.4.2 Guelph - Initiative
“The vision of a modern City is one that
offers services to customers when and where
they want them. A Smart City is one that
uses technology to achieve this goal, using
technology at every appropriate opportunity
to streamline processes and simplify access
to city services. This is a city that has all the
information it needs, available and
accessible, to support effective decision-
making”
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
31. 5.4.3 Ottawa - Initiative
Connected City
• Create a city where all residents and busi-nesses
are connected in an efficient, affordable, and
ubiquitous way.
Smart Economy
• Stimulate economic growth by supporting
knowledge-based business expansion and
attraction, local entre-preneurs, and smart talent
development.
Innovative Government
• Develop new and innovative ways to impact the
lives of residents and businesses through the
creative use of new service delivery models,
technology solutions, and partnerships.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
32. 5.4.4 Montréal – Ville Intelligente, Strategy
& Action Plan
“A smart and digital city means
better services for citizens, a
universally higher standard of
living and harnessing of our
metropolis’s resources to ensure
its development is in line with
the population’s needs”
Vice Chair of the Executive Committee,
responsible for the smart city, Harout
Chitilian
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
33. 5.4.5 Ontario Smart Grid
The Electricity Act, 1998242 defines a Smart Grid as follows:
• (1.3) For the purposes of this Act, the smart grid means the
advanced information exchange systems and equipment that
when utilized together improve the flexibility, security,
reliability, efficiency and safety of the integrated power
system and distribution systems, particularly for the
purposes of
• (a) enabling the increased use of renewable energy sources and technology,
including generation facilities connected to the distribution system;
• (b) expanding opportunities to provide demand response, price information
and load control to electricity customers;
• (c) accommodating the use of emerging, innovative and energy saving
technologies and system control applications; or
• (d) supporting other objectives that may be prescribed by regulation. 2009, c.
12, Sched. B, s. 1 (5).
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
34. 5.4.6 International Best Practices
• Chicago
• Helsinki
• New York
• Barcelona
• Dublin
Open smart cities include:
• Rights (GDPR & right to repair)
• Are in the public interest
• Ethics (Quebec, NyC, Helsinki,
Chicago)
• Environmental considerations
• Critical and meaningful public
engagement & dialogue not just
consultation
• Ecosystems approach (ASDI and
Dublin Report)
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
37. Mapping
openness onto
the smart city
requires the
Integration of
digital
practices Alllevelsofgovernment
5.5.2 Smart Cities – Openness
38. 5.5.3 What did we learn
• Smart cities are new & emerging & citizens do not generally know what
is coming, may not be the drivers
• Need to identify issues to be resolved with technology instead of
technology looking for issues
• More data does not mean better governance
• Very few overarching socio-technical and ethical considerations
• Requirement for technological citizenship
• Is this an innovation bias or is it a smart city that is best for the City, the
environment and its residents?
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
39. 5.5.4 Smart City Challenges
• Data governance – residency, privacy, etc.
• Security & privacy vulnerabilities (hacking)
• E-waste – cost, short shelf life
• Mission creep - potential
• Surveillance / dataveillance potential
• Ownership / procurement
• Repair – DRM
• Device lock in
• Archiving - the lack thereof
• Reuse – unintended purposes
• Sustainability, maintenance & management
• Interoperability
• Standards – emerging
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
42. A city is
• a complex and dynamic socio-biological system
• territorially bound
• a human settlement
• governed by public city officials who manage
• the grey, blue and green environment
• within their jurisdictional responsibility
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
44. A smart city is
• technologically instrumented & networked w/ systems that are
interlinked & integrated, where vast troves of big urban data are
being generated by sensors & administrative processes used to
manage & control urban life in real-time (Kitchin, 2018).
• where administrators and elected officials invest in smart city
technologies & data analytical systems to inform how to
innovatively, economically, efficiently & objectively run &
manage the city.
• The focus is most often to quantify & manage infrastructure,
mobility, business & online government services.
• a form of technological solutionism.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
46. Definition of the Open Smart City V 1.0
An Open Smart City is where residents, civil society, academics,
and the private sector collaborate with public officials to
mobilize data and technologies when warranted in an ethical,
accountable and transparent way to govern the city as a fair,
viable and liveable commons and balance economic
development, social progress and environmental responsibility.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
47. 5 Open Smart City Themes
1. Governance
2. Engagement
3. Data & Technology
4. Data Governance
5. Effective and values based smart cities
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
48. Theme 1. Governance in an Open Smart City is
ethical, accountable, and transparent. These
principles apply to the governance of social and
technical platforms which include data,
algorithms, skills, infrastructure, and knowledge.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
49. Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
50. Theme 1. Resources arranged as follows:
• Ethical Governance
• Governance Structures and Participation
• Cooperative and Multi-jurisdictional Governance
• Accountable Governance
• Transparent Governance
• Cooperative Governance
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
51. Theme 2. An Open Smart City is participatory,
collaborative, and responsive. It is a city where
government, civil society, the private sector, the
media, academia and residents meaningfully
participate in the governance of the city and have
shared rights and responsibilities. This entails a
culture of trust and critical thinking and fair, just,
inclusive, and informed approaches.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
52. Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
53. Theme 2. Resources arranged as follows:
•Participatory
•Collaborative
•Responsive
•Trust
•Critical Thinking
•Fair & Just
•Inclusive & Informed
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
54. Theme 3. An Open Smart City uses data and
technologies that are fit for purpose, can be repaired
and queried, their source code are open, adhere to open
standards, are interoperable, durable, secure, and
where possible locally procured and scalable. Data and
technology are used and acquired in such a way as to
reduce harm and bias, increase sustainability and
enhance flexibility. An Open Smart City may defer when
warranted to automated decision making and therefore
designs these systems to be legible, responsive,
adaptive and accountable.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
55.
56. Theme 3. Resources arranged as follows:
• Fit for Purpose
• Repaired and Queried
• Open Source
• Open Standards
• Cybersecurity and Data Security
• Reduction of Harm and Bias
• Local Procurement
• Balancing Sustainability
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
57. Theme 4. In an Open Smart City, data
management is the norm and custody and control
over data generated by smart technologies is held
and exercised in the public interest. Data
governance includes sovereignty, residency, open
by default, security, individual and social privacy,
and grants people authority over their personal
data.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
58. Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
59. Theme 4. Resources arranged as follows:
• Data Management
• Custody of Data
• Residency
• Open by Default
• Security
• Privacy
• Personal Data Management
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
60. Theme 5. In an Open Smart City, it is recognized
that data and technology are not always the
solution to many of the systemic issues cities
face, nor are there always quick fixes. These
problems require innovative, sometimes long
term, social, organizational, economic, and
political processes and solutions.
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
61. Theme 5. Complex urban social issues need
more than technology for resolution:
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
62. 6. Aspirations become reality!
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
63. 6.1 Open Smart City Assessment
Open Smart
City
Principles
Open
Smart City
Definition
High Level
Strategy
Vision
Mission
RoadMap
Goals,
Objectives,
Initiatives
Tactical
Strategy
Implementation
Plan
Operational
Plan
Engagement
Environment
Transit /
transport
Energy
Economy
Innovation
Etc.
Liveable
Communities
Lauriault, T. P. , Bloom, R. Landry, J.-N. 2018, Open Smart Cities Project https://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
64. 6.2 Open Smart City work at Open North
• Part of a consortium, led by Evergreen’s Future Cities Canada
Program,
• to create the winning proposal to Infrastructure Canada’s Smart Cities Community
Support Program.
• OpenNorth is the lead technical partner in this partnership with Evergreen.
• 2019 kick off brings a new kind of organisational work on open smart cities.
• OpenNorth’s new One-to-One (1:1) Advisory Service
• will utilize applied research to provide standardized metrics and assessments to help
communities assess where they are in the process of becoming open and smart.
• Once completed, OpenNorth will offer tailored guidance on a community-by-
community basis focused on capacity building domains that cover:
• hardware,
• software,
• governance, and more,
• to assess impact
65. Project Outputs
• Open Smart Cities in Canada: Environmental-Scan and Case
Studies – Executive Summary
• (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/e4fs8/ )
• Open Smart Cities in Canada: Assessment Report
• (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qbyzj/ )
• Open Smart Cities Legal FAQ
• (https://cippic.ca/en/Open_Smart_Cities )
• Webinars 1 & 2 & 3
• (http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k and https://vimeo.com/247378746 )
• Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0
• (http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide )
66. Final Remarks
• The Open Smart City Guide V1.0 is a Living Document to be
updated on a regular basis and we are counting on you for your
help.
• http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
• Please send feedback, ideas, critiques etc. to
• info@opennorth.ca
69. Abstract
• From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
• Open smart cities might become a reality for Canada. Globally there are a number of initiatives, programs, and practices that are open
smart city like which means that it is possible to have an open, responsive and engaged city that is both socio-technologically enabled,
but also one where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg).
For an open smart city to exist, public officials, the private sector, scholars, civil society and residents and citizens require a definition
and a guide to start the exercise of imagining what an open smart city might look like. There is much critical scholarship about the
smart city and there are many counter smart city narratives, but there are few depictions of what engagement, participatory design and
technological leadership might be. The few examples that do exist are project based and few are systemic. An open smart city
definition and guide was therefore created by a group of stakeholders in such a way that it can be used as the basis for the design of an
open smart city from the ground up, or to help actors shape or steer the course of emerging or ongoing data and networked urbanist
forms (Kitchin) of smart cities to lead them towards being open, engaged and receptive to technological citizenship.
• This talk will discuss some of the successes resulting from this Open Smart Cities work, which might also be called a form or engaged
scholarship. For example the language for the call for tender of the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge was modified to include
as a requisite that engagement and openness be part of the submissions from communities. Also, those involved with the guide have
been writing policy articles that critique either AI or the smart city while also offering examples of what is possible. These articles are
being read by proponents of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Also, the global Open Data Conference held in Argentina in September of 2018
hosted a full workshop on Open Smart Cities and finally Open North is working toward developing key performance indicators to assess
those shortlisted by Infrastructure Canada and to help those communities develop an Open Smart Cities submission. The objective of the
talk is to demonstrate that it is actually possible to shift public policy on large infrastructure projects, at least, in the short term.
70. Acknowledgements
Open Smart City
Research was onducted in collaboration with Open North, and
funded by the GeoConnections Program, Natural Resources Canada
I would like to thank all those who participated in interviews.