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
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
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
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
Semantic Technology Solutions For Recovery Gov And Data Gov With Transparenc...Mills Davis
The Obama administration has set the goal of achieving and unprecedented level of openness, participation, transparency, and collaboration in government. This applies especially to the accessibility of government information and the tracking of stimulus expenditures. This presentation discusses ways that cloud computing, web 2.0, and web 3.0 semantic technologies can be used to deliver citizen-friendly solutions for recovery.gov and data.gov that fulfill the goals of the new administration.
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
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
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
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
Semantic Technology Solutions For Recovery Gov And Data Gov With Transparenc...Mills Davis
The Obama administration has set the goal of achieving and unprecedented level of openness, participation, transparency, and collaboration in government. This applies especially to the accessibility of government information and the tracking of stimulus expenditures. This presentation discusses ways that cloud computing, web 2.0, and web 3.0 semantic technologies can be used to deliver citizen-friendly solutions for recovery.gov and data.gov that fulfill the goals of the new administration.
As smart cities embrace and deploy innovative technology embedded in public spaces, residents voices need to be represented. To prevent disconnect between residents and their city’s technology, broad engagement is key — not only to inform residents of innovations, but to take inventory of public concerns and questions associated with them.
The purpose of this report is to describe the civic engagement and resident feedback collection process associated with a new Internet of Things (IoT) initiative in Chicago: The Array of Things. This report outlines the methods, decisions, and philosophies that went into this effort to increase Chicagoans’ engagement and involvement with smart city technology. Since the deployment of Internet of Things is so timely for cities around the world, we’ve shared the lessons we gleaned from our work. We hope this information can be of service to similar projects in other cities.
A Data-Driven Digital Inclusion Strategy for Gigabit CitiesDenise Linn Riedl
This study offers up recommendations for gigabit cities and aspiring/future gigabit cities on how to decrease the digital divide. The recommendations stem from (1) a city and census tract-level analysis of broadband adoption barriers in gigabit cities and non-gigabit cities and (2) digital inclusion programming best practices from experts around the country.
If you have questions or requests for the author, email Denise_Linn@hks15.harvard.edu
Internet of People is a new computing paradigm designed to enable Smart Sustainable Places which follow Social Good principles
Smart Sustainable Places =
IoT +
Big Data +
Blockchain +
People Participation through CO-PRODUCTION
February 2014 update: Since publishing our original report in December, 2013, we've received dozens of emails from peers in the budding civic tech community proposing additions. On Feb. 26, we released an updated version of the civic tech investment analysis, which includes an additional 34 companies and $265 million of investment. Find out more at http://kng.ht/1cPi3Ar.
Investments by private capital funders and foundations in technology that spurs citizen engagement, improves cities and makes governments more effective is growing significantly, with more than $430 million going to the field between January 2011 and May 2013, according to a major report released today by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The first report of its kind, “The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field,” provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of private capital and foundation investments in civic technology. It aims to help organizations and investors better understand civic tech funding, so that they can strengthen their work and help shape the field. The analysis applies a new approach to research and advances the use of data in the social sector; it showcases an interactive data visualization map that allows users to explore investments across multiple areas of civic tech. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/civictech
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
Smart Cities are all about collaboration, sharing and transparency. They need true openness of data. It is not just governments opening up their data for everyone in public platforms. It is individual citizens and privately-owned companies offering their data to the government or government departments sharing their data with one another. That is the true meaning of ‘Open Data’, which goes beyond the traditional definitions. Because Smart Cities eat the ‘status quo’ for breakfast. They change at the speed of light, together with their environment. They are the cities of the future.
To meet the mobility needs of tomorrow, transport policy needs to up its game. Where Mobility Lab comes in is mixing vision for the future with the needs of users, as users are at the centre of our mobility systems. Uploaded on 20th November 2018. If you want to talk to us about working together, then email us on james@mobilitylab.org.uk.
If the world of transport is to change, then policy making must change with it. This slide deck sets out a new vision for how mobility policy should be created in the UK. And we want you to be part of it.
Open Government continues to expand its adoption and Open Access to Government and Open Data is a foundational element. Review of current state globally with a further focus on Canada is provided. Thoughts on the value proposition to Open Data are provided as a starting point for further discussion. NextGen Open Data is an area of increasing discussions in the community these days. In addition to Open Government Data, progress in Open Corporate and Open Scientific data is being made. Bottom line - all of this work should focus on the eventual benefit to citizens - you and I.
The Civic Tech timeline: a recent history (Matt Stempeck and Micah L. Sifry, ...mysociety
This was presented by Matt Stempeck and Micah L. Sifry (Civic Hall) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2019) in Paris on 19th March 2019. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2019
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
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.
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
As smart cities embrace and deploy innovative technology embedded in public spaces, residents voices need to be represented. To prevent disconnect between residents and their city’s technology, broad engagement is key — not only to inform residents of innovations, but to take inventory of public concerns and questions associated with them.
The purpose of this report is to describe the civic engagement and resident feedback collection process associated with a new Internet of Things (IoT) initiative in Chicago: The Array of Things. This report outlines the methods, decisions, and philosophies that went into this effort to increase Chicagoans’ engagement and involvement with smart city technology. Since the deployment of Internet of Things is so timely for cities around the world, we’ve shared the lessons we gleaned from our work. We hope this information can be of service to similar projects in other cities.
A Data-Driven Digital Inclusion Strategy for Gigabit CitiesDenise Linn Riedl
This study offers up recommendations for gigabit cities and aspiring/future gigabit cities on how to decrease the digital divide. The recommendations stem from (1) a city and census tract-level analysis of broadband adoption barriers in gigabit cities and non-gigabit cities and (2) digital inclusion programming best practices from experts around the country.
If you have questions or requests for the author, email Denise_Linn@hks15.harvard.edu
Internet of People is a new computing paradigm designed to enable Smart Sustainable Places which follow Social Good principles
Smart Sustainable Places =
IoT +
Big Data +
Blockchain +
People Participation through CO-PRODUCTION
February 2014 update: Since publishing our original report in December, 2013, we've received dozens of emails from peers in the budding civic tech community proposing additions. On Feb. 26, we released an updated version of the civic tech investment analysis, which includes an additional 34 companies and $265 million of investment. Find out more at http://kng.ht/1cPi3Ar.
Investments by private capital funders and foundations in technology that spurs citizen engagement, improves cities and makes governments more effective is growing significantly, with more than $430 million going to the field between January 2011 and May 2013, according to a major report released today by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The first report of its kind, “The Emergence of Civic Tech: Investments in a Growing Field,” provides an in-depth analysis of the current state of private capital and foundation investments in civic technology. It aims to help organizations and investors better understand civic tech funding, so that they can strengthen their work and help shape the field. The analysis applies a new approach to research and advances the use of data in the social sector; it showcases an interactive data visualization map that allows users to explore investments across multiple areas of civic tech. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/civictech
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
Smart Cities are all about collaboration, sharing and transparency. They need true openness of data. It is not just governments opening up their data for everyone in public platforms. It is individual citizens and privately-owned companies offering their data to the government or government departments sharing their data with one another. That is the true meaning of ‘Open Data’, which goes beyond the traditional definitions. Because Smart Cities eat the ‘status quo’ for breakfast. They change at the speed of light, together with their environment. They are the cities of the future.
To meet the mobility needs of tomorrow, transport policy needs to up its game. Where Mobility Lab comes in is mixing vision for the future with the needs of users, as users are at the centre of our mobility systems. Uploaded on 20th November 2018. If you want to talk to us about working together, then email us on james@mobilitylab.org.uk.
If the world of transport is to change, then policy making must change with it. This slide deck sets out a new vision for how mobility policy should be created in the UK. And we want you to be part of it.
Open Government continues to expand its adoption and Open Access to Government and Open Data is a foundational element. Review of current state globally with a further focus on Canada is provided. Thoughts on the value proposition to Open Data are provided as a starting point for further discussion. NextGen Open Data is an area of increasing discussions in the community these days. In addition to Open Government Data, progress in Open Corporate and Open Scientific data is being made. Bottom line - all of this work should focus on the eventual benefit to citizens - you and I.
The Civic Tech timeline: a recent history (Matt Stempeck and Micah L. Sifry, ...mysociety
This was presented by Matt Stempeck and Micah L. Sifry (Civic Hall) at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC 2019) in Paris on 19th March 2019. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://tictec.mysociety.org/2019
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
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.
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
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
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.
A Quintessential smart city infrastructure framework for all stakeholdersJonathan L. Tan, M.B.A.
Smart City Infrastructure Framework provides guidance to open government data and infrastructure essentials for ICT \ Telecom, Energy \ Renewable Energy, Water \ Waste Water, Transportation, Education, Health and Government Services systems
I. Smart City Drivers
Smart City Definition
Smart City Elements
II. Smart City Infrastructure Frameworks
III. Technology Ecosystem
Stakeholders
ICT Essentials
OGD
ICT for Building Automation
Smart Water
Smart Energy
Smart Transportation
Smart Education
Smart Healthcare
Smart City Services
IV. Smart City Applications
V. Smart City Systems Infrastructure
Top SC Vendors
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
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 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.
Smart City - French- Dutch Young Talents 2014 - 2015 Ahmad AFANEH
FNI Conference
20-21 November 2014
CNIT, La Défense, Paris
Le Réseau franco-néerlandais
Coopération universitaire franco-néerlandaise au service de l’intégration européenne
Challenges, Opportunities and Risks for a Smart Future VISITOR First
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.
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/
1. Letter to all state governments to shortlist potential Smart Cities based on Stage-I criteria according to a number of Smart Cities distributed across states /UTs by the MoUD. This is the first stage of the Intra-State competition.
2. On the basis of response from States/UTs, the list of potential 100 Smart Cities is announced. The second stage of the All India competition begins.
3. Each potential Smart City prepares its proposal assisted by a consultant (from a panel prepared by MoUD) and a hand-holding External Agency (various offers received such as World Bank, ADB, GEF, USTDA, JICA, DFID, AFD, KfW, UN-Habitat)
4. By stipulated date, Stage 2 proposals submitted. Evaluation by a panel of experts.
5. Selected cities declared – Round 1 Smart Cities
6. Selected cities set up SPV and start the implementation of their SCP. Preparation of DPRs, tenders, etc. and Other cities prepare to improve their proposal for the next round of the Challenge
Similar to Open Smart Cities in Canada - Webinar 3 - English (20)
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
https://t.me/solidarity_zone
Memorial
https://memopzk.org/, https://t.me/pzk_memorial
OVD-Info
https://en.ovdinfo.org/antiwar-ovd-info-guide
RosUznik
https://rosuznik.org/
Uznik Online
http://uznikonline.tilda.ws/
Russian Reader
https://therussianreader.com/
ABC Irkutsk
https://abc38.noblogs.org/
Send mail to prisoners from abroad:
http://Prisonmail.online
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c5nSOdU48O8
Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/libertarianlifecoach/episodes/Russian-anarchist-and-anti-war-movement-in-the-third-year-of-full-scale-war-e2k8ai4
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
Jennifer Schaus and Associates hosts a complimentary webinar series on The FAR in 2024. Join the webinars on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, eastern.
Recordings are on YouTube and the company website.
https://www.youtube.com/@jenniferschaus/videos
This session provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (commonly known as the Uniform Guidance) outlined in the 2 CFR 200.
With a focus on the 2024 revisions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), participants will gain insight into the key changes affecting federal grant recipients. The session will delve into critical regulatory updates, providing attendees with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate and comply with the evolving landscape of federal grant management.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the rationale behind the 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance outlined in 2 CFR 200, and their implications for federal grant recipients.
- Identify the key changes and revisions introduced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the 2024 edition of 2 CFR 200.
- Gain proficiency in applying the updated regulations to ensure compliance with federal grant requirements and avoid potential audit findings.
- Develop strategies for effectively implementing the new guidelines within the grant management processes of their respective organizations, fostering efficiency and accountability in federal grant administration.
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
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1. Open Smart City Guide V1.0
Webinar 3
Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0
(http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide)
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 & Carly
Livingstone (RA Carleton U.)
Project Name: Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date: April 17, 2018 at 1230 PM
Project Funder: Natural Resources Canada GeoConnections
2. Webinar 3 – Open Smart Cities
Introductory remarks
Jean-Noe Landry, Executive Director, Open North
Webinar 3 includes:
1. Summary:
• Webinar 1: E-Scan and Assessment of Smart Cities in Canada (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k )
• Webinar 2: (listen at: https://vimeo.com/247378746)
2. Context in Canada
3. Open Smart City Guide V1.0
4. Q & A
Webinar Presenters:
Rachel Bloom, Open North
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
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3. Open North
Founded in 2011, OpenNorth is Canada’s leading not-for-profit organization specialized in open
data and civic technology.
Focus: inclusive, innovative, and dynamic open data ecosystems
Expertise:
open smart and resilient cities
data standards and life cycle management
open data policy, licenses, and governance
data user needs identification and stakeholder engagement
strategy and planning
Approach: global/local, multi-stakeholder, inter-jurisdictional, capacity building, maturity
modeling, applied research
Networks: Open Data Charter, Open Government Partnership, International Open Data
Conference, Global Initiative on Fiscal Transparency, Open Contracting Partnership, Canadian
Multi-stakeholder Forum
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4. 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
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5. 1. Summary of Webinars 1 & 2
Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0 (http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide)
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6. Webinar 1
E-Scan & Assessment of Smart Cities in Canada
E-scan identified
smart city makers
smart city components
Assessment of smart city strategies:
Cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal, and Ottawa
governance structures
practices relate to open data
geospatial data
Procurement
Conclusion
• Listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k and access the full report here:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/e4fs8/
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7. Webinar 2 –
Towards Open Smart City Guiding Principles
1. Situating smart cities amongst
current digital practices
2. Towards guiding principles for
Open Smart Cities
3. Examples of international best
practices
4. Observations & Next Steps
5. Listen at: :
https://vimeo.com/247378746
Open
Data
Digital
Strategy
Open
Science
IoT Smart
City /
Prec. Ag.
Open
Platforms
Open
Source
Open
Gov’t
Alllevelsofgovernment
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8. 2. Context in Canada
Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0 (http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide)
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9. Smart City Challenge
Launched November 2017, Submission
deadline April 24, 2018
Municipalities, regional governments, &
Indigenous communities
Community not-for-profit, private sector
company, or expert
$300 million Smart Cities Challenge in 2017
Budget
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11. 3. Open Smart City Guide V 1.0
Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0 (http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide)
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12. Evidence informed guidelines
1. Open Smart Cities in Canada: Environmental-Scan and Case Studies –
Executive Summary (find here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/e4fs8/)
2. Open Smart Cities in Canada: Assessment Report for the cities of Edmonton,
Guelph, Montreal, and Ottawa and also the province of Ontario’s Smart Grid
and smart meter data (find here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qbyzj/)
3. Open Smart Cities FAQ (find here: https://cippic.ca/en/Open_Smart_Cities)
4. Webinars 1 & 2 (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k and
https://vimeo.com/247378746)
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14. Internet of Things (IoT)
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 – the lack therefor
Standards – emerging
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15. Data & Technology
are considered as more than the unique arrangement of objective and
politically neutral facts & things
&
they do not exist independently of ideas, techniques, technologies,
systems, people and contexts regardless of them being presented in
that way.
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16. A city is
is a complex and dynamic socio-biological-physical system.
It is a territorially bound human settlement governed by public city
officials who manage the grey (i.e., built form), blue (i.e., water) and
green (i.e., land) environment and the people they serve as per their
legal and jurisdictional responsibilities.
Cities are much more complex than this, however, for the purpose
of this exercise, we have limited ourselves to a functionalist and an
administrative definition.
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17. Data and Networked Urbanism
Smart cities in the common sense of the term and as per their
current manifestations are:
“[technologically] instrumented and networked,
[with] systems [that are] interlinked and integrated,
and [where] vast troves of big urban data are being generated [by sensors]
and used to manage and control urban life in real-time”.
Public administrators and elected officials invest in smart city technologies
and data analytical systems to inform how to innovatively, economically,
efficiently and objectively run and manage the cities they govern.
Predominately, a smart city is about quantifying and managing
infrastructure, mobility, business and online government services and a
focus oriented toward technological solutionism.
(Kitchin 2015)
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18. Definition of the Open Smart City 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.
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20. 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.
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21. Ethical Governance
Governance Structures and Participation
Cooperative and Multi-jurisdictional Governance
Accountable Governance
Transparent Governance
Cooperative Governance
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22. 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.
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24. 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.
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25. Fit for Purpose
Repaired and Queried
Open Source
Open Standards
Cybersecurity and Data Security
Reduction of Harm and Bias
Local Procurement
Balancing Sustainability
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26. 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.
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28. 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.
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30. “not just [about] a ‘right to
use technology’, which is
precisely where many
smart city initiatives stop,
but rather the right to
shape the city using
human initiative and
technology for social
purposes to make cities
better.”
Open Smart City should benefit and
empower people and social movements.
These initiatives are propelled by human
values and principles of accountability,
transparency, ethics, equity, openness,
human rights, and inclusivity.
Thus, we emphasize that efficiency and
progress should not be the key drivers for
the deployment of smart city technology.
Our fifth characteristic of an Open Smart
City would also recognize:
the right to disconnect
the right to be anonymous in a connected city.Hollands (2014)
Critical interventions into the corporate smart city
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32. Limitations & Strengths
Limitations
We could have organized it by component, specific technologies or software stack
We could have consulted more broadly on each item, especially to experts in law,
cybersecurity, industry associations, etc.
We could also have met with residents, makers, civil liberties organizations, civic
technology groups and more…
We could also have taken a less government centric approach
Strengths
We looked at the literature and at examples and we defined an Open Smart City
The definition captures what is missing in data and networked urbanism
Although and Open Smart City does not yet exist, we were able to find many
examples and resources that lead us to believe that it is possible, and we hope you
find them to be useful.
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33. Final Remarks
The Open Smart City Guide V1.0 is a Living Document that will be updated on a
regular basis and we are counting on you for your help. You can access it here
http://www.opennorth.ca/open-smart-cities-guide
Please send feedback, ideas, critiques etc. to info@opennorth.ca
Next Events:
Webinaire 3, 25 avril 12h30:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hwnsww3bQtuz3fasyO-qJQ
Open Cities Summit Pre-Event to the International Open Data Conference in
Argentina, Sept. 2018 and the theme is Open Smart Cities
Canadian Open Data Summit, Nov. 2018
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34. Project Outputs
1. Open Smart Cities in Canada: Environmental-Scan and Case Studies –
Executive Summary (find here: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/e4fs8/)
2. Open Smart Cities in Canada: Assessment Report (find here:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qbyzj/)
3. Open Smart Cities FAQ (find here: https://cippic.ca/en/Open_Smart_Cities)
4. Webinars 1 & 2 (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k and
https://vimeo.com/247378746)
5. Open Smart Cities Guide V1.0 (find here: http://www.opennorth.ca/open-
smart-cities-guide)
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36. Discussion Questions
What do you think of this definition?
What concepts do you think are missing from this guide?
How do you envision this guide changing over the long term?
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Jean-Noe
Hello everyone, my name is Jean-Noé Landry, and I'm the Executive Director of OpenNorth. Welcome to 3rd webinar of OpenNorth's Open Smart Cities in Canada project. A few preliminary announcements before we get started:
1. this webinar will be delivered in English and French separately
2. the French webinar will take place on April 25, at 1230 PM to 130 PM.
3. to ask a question during the today's presentation, type them in the Q&A panel. Simply click the Q&A button located at the top left corner of the presentation screen.
4. questions will be answered at the end of the presentation.
5. finally, we would like to thank Geothink for providing the hosting services used for this webinar.
Jean-Noe
In this webinar we will provide you:
with a brief summary of what we discussed in Webinars 1 & 2,
a little context about smart cities in Canada, and then
introduce you to what we understand an Open Smart City as well as Version 1.0 of our Guide.
Your presenters today will be:
Rachel Bloom, OpenNorth
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Jean-Noe
To provide a bit of context, Open North is…
Jean-Noe
The Open Smart Cities in Canada project was funded by…
Jean-Noe Switches to Rachel
Rachel
In the first webinar we presented the results of the e-scan where we identified smart city makers such a vendors, think tanks, consulting firms, standards and many others. We also identified the main components of most smart cities and some of these are smart mobility, smart economy, smart infrastructure and so on. We also shared the findings from our smart city case studies for the cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Montreal and Ottawa, where we focused on governance, open data, geospatial data and procurement.
Rachel
In the second webinar we examined related openness and digital practices in government at all levels in Canada and recommended that concepts of openness and data management be mapped onto the smart city, and that there should be more collaboration between institutions to ensure that smart cities build upon and are integrated with pre-existing practices. We also began to showcase some of the best practices we observed in our 4 cities and two provincial collaborators and from our examination of a selection of international best practices.
Rachel switches over to Jean-Noe
Jean-Noe
The Open Smart Cities and the V 1.0 of the guide which we are releasing today, closely coincides with the submissions of the proposals to the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge. We were very happy to see in the Challenge the call for engagement and for openness and we hope that this guide will help shape the adoption of openness principles and practices for those who win the challenge. Best of luck!
Jean-Noe
As you will see, the V 1.0 of the Open Smart Cities Guide is very different than the PPP Sidewalk Toronto project being developed by Sidewalk Labs a US company owned by Google’s holding company Alphabet Inc. and Waterfront Toronto a corporation created by the Federal Government, The Province of Ontario and The City of Toronto.
The Sidewalk Toronto project is significant because of its closed nature, a lack of transparency, the outsourcing to US corporations of the roll out of large government technology. Shortcomings with this approach have been demonstrated with the IBM’s and PwCs (Price Water Cooper) Phoenix experience.
Sidewalk raises problematic issues related to data sovereignty and residency issues in the call for tender, the lack of public consultation on the design of the digital architecture of the project and the lack of contractual transparency and accountability. Discussion about how to upgrade an entire city’s hardware and software when it becomes obsolete or is breached by hackers also isn’t getting the attention it deserves.
We need address Canadian territorial autonomy when an entire section of a city becomes governed by a corporation whose head office and servers are outside of Canada. Who are the governors in that context?
Jean-Noe switches over to Tracey
Tracey
The Open Smart City Definition and the guidelines are informed by research and analysis and here you have links to the outputs related to this project.
Tracey
Before we dive into the guide, we want to remind you that most smart cities are framed by what we call “shapers” who are primarily from industry, vendors, consulting firms, private and government led alliances, but also standards organizations, and indicator systems developed by consulting firms and to a lesser extent civil society organizations and academia.
In addition, we often saw metaphors such as the City as A Platform, and the city in a box or running the city from the palm of your hands or from your iphone. Which seems to over simplify the complexity of cities.
Tracey
We also want to foreground that smart cities are a large socio-technological IoT application, and while they are not framed as such it is important to think of the many devices being installed in the environment and plugged into a large urban platform. With IoT and smart cities, we rarely see in the more technologically enthusiastic literature issues such as privacy, cybersecurity, and/or how technology intended for one purpose may suddenly be used for something else such as surveillance and dataveillance, this a process called mission creep. We therefore suggest that city official and governments consider these issues at the start.
Tracey –
For the purpose of our study, we assumed that data and technology are considered as more than the unique arrangement of objective and politically neutral facts & things & that these do not exist independently of ideas, techniques, technologies, systems, people and contexts regardless of them being presented in that way.
Tracey
To define an open smart city, we needed a baseline definition of what a city is. We applied the following definition of a city recognizing its limitations.
Tracey;
We then referred to the literature on smart cities, and we developed case studies, to better understand the discourse and the practice of current smart cities and based on those findings we observed that contemporary smart cities are more analogous to what is known as data and networked urbanism whereby cities are essentially:
“[technologically] instrumented and networked, [with] systems [that are] interlinked and integrated,
and [where] vast troves of big urban data are being generated [by sensors] and used to manage and control urban life in real-time”.
Public administrators and elected officials invest in smart city technologies and data analytical systems to inform how to innovatively, economically, efficiently and objectively run and manage the cities they govern.
Predominately, a smart city is about quantifying and managing infrastructure, mobility, business and online government services and a focus oriented toward technological solutionism.
Tracey
We also examined the literature and practices related to openness to come to what we understand what an open smart city might be. We refined this definition, we consulted experts, refined it again, and we took it out for a few test drives in public forums. We will now proceed to define what we think an Open Smart City is, and we will break it down into 5 themes and we hope to hear your thoughts about this during and after the webinar in the Q & A.
First:
In an Open Smart 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 to govern the city as a fair, viable and liveable commons and balance economic development, social progress and environmental responsibility.
Tracey
The definition is further expanded along the following 5 themes starting with governance.
Governance
Engagement
Data & Technology
Data Governance
Effective and value-based smart cities
Tracey
Tracey
The UN Habitat for a Better Urban Future, defines governance in laypersons terms “as the many ways that institutions and individuals organize the day-to-day management of a city, and the processes used for effectively realizing the short term and long-term agenda of a city’s development. Urban governance [in a way] is the software that enables the urban hardware to function”.
Some of the resources that we have compiled here emphasize different aspects of governance for example
The Open Government Partnership and the Open Data Charter are well established governance practices that can be mapped onto open smart cities and be part of strategies.
The Province of Quebec has created a useful Smart Cities for the Public Good guide with ethical questions and checklists to aid decision makers
And the City of Barcelona as member of the Electronics Watch project factors in the full production cycle of technology and data when they procure to mitigate human rights abuses in factories and environmental waste.
The Ontario Smart Grid has taken a team based approach to managing the third party resale of data while the Grid is a multi-jurisdictional process managed by a very complex governance structure which we hope you will read more about in the guide and in the Assessment Report.
The City of Chicago formed a mayor’s advisory council to bridge the digital divide with its smart city
While Barcelona has developed a whistle blowing platform called DECIDIM where citizens can report corruption and track projects and proposals
The City of New York has a Digital Playbook which aim to make government simple, welcoming all residents, and foster trust
And like Barcelona, je fais MTL is a way for residents to keep track of smart city projects also the City has adopted the Open Contracting Data Standard to openly report what it procures and includes a way to visualize procurement data.
In this guide we structured all of these resources and more into the following categories Ethical Governance, Governance Structures and Participation, Cooperative and Multi-jurisdictional Governance, Accountable Governance, Transparent Governance and Cooperative Governance.
We look forward to your suggestions in the Q & A.
Rachel
Secondly, ….
Rachel
In terms of meaningful participation, the IAP2 public participation spectrum and values are tools to assess the quality of public engagement and to self assess approaches. The cities of Guelph and Edmonton plan to include citizen representation on their smart city governance committees.
We have observed meaningful collaboration in Montreal via the co-creation of projects and these can be seen in Montreal’s smart city action plan. In addition, the city of Guelph has collected via their customer relationship management software requests for technologies from the public that were then incorporated into their RFPs.
Responsiveness has been observed through digital services initiatives and innovations. The civic user test (CUT) group in Chicago consulted resident volunteers on the design of digital services and their methodology. Also, standards such as the Open311 API are being deployed by cities in Canada to enable more responsive governance and the Open Data standards directory provides a centralized inventory of open data standards.
TRUST Transparency and broader debate are a prerequisite for building public trust. The co-creating of governance and privacy guidelines in the Chicago urban sensing project the Array of Things has provided more transparency and public participation in decision making. While in Canada Tech Reset is promoting critical debate and calling for more transparency to build trust so that public interests will be protected and to mitigate mission creep in Sidewalk Toronto.
CRITICAL THINKING has been seen in the case of the Programmable City project, which actively works with decision makers of Smart Dublin to translate research into policy interventions and affect the thinking and work of public sector officials and bodies.
Fair and JUST: Indicator systems for cities, whether they are smart, resilient, or sustainable, should recognized that conflict and inequality are inherent characteristics of any city. Therefore, to inform progress and missions of open smart cities, indicators that value subjective well being such as the OECD measures and that are reflective of social advocacy emergent from conflict should be used to supplement for quantitative/fact based methods.
Inclusive an Informed: There are initiatives to increase and improve access to digital literacy, skills, and knowledge among women, people with physical disabilities, and low income residents. Barcelona’s Digital City operationalizes gender equity and emphasizes increasing the number of women in science and technology. The G3ICT and the Smart Cities for All initiative ensure that smart cities include people with physical disabilities. Also, Connect Chicago runs smart health centers in low income areas that have Health IT Navigators to help local residents connect to their personal information and to find reliable resources.
Now I will pass it over to Tracey
Tracey
Tracey
Open smart cities enable ethical, transparent, accountable, and cooperative models of governance and meaningful civic engagement and some of these properties can be embodied in the design of technologies, processes and data practices. The following are examples of how these are applied in real terms.
1. For example The NYC guidelines on IoT deployment include privacy & transparency, infrastructure, security, and operations & sustainability.
2. Again the 3Gict is mentioned as it includes tools and techniques for smart City and Digital Inclusion programs.
3. the Right to Repair Association lobbies for the right to fix and for the ability to query AI, software and hardware.
4. The City of Helsinki’s open APIs ecosystem, CitySDK, ensures that data about public information are open and this is accompanied by a Harmonized Smart City APIs “Cookbook”
5. The UK Government’s Digital Service Standard also specifies that new source code be open and publishes an Open Source Procurement Toolkit. The City of Guelph for example cites the Toolkit in their Open Government Action Plan. In addition it also specifies the use of open standards and common platforms for public services and has published an open standards principles guide.
6. In addition, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) published a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on open source and licenses. Tool.
7. While Mayor's Office of Data Analytics in NY has an Open Analytics Library, to showcase and educate the public about how agencies use data and open source software and this is accompanied by project management guidelines all posted on GitHub.
8. The ThingsNetwork on the other hand is a global open source and decentralized approach to building an IoT network where members contribute source code, place a gateway on the console, and plug and play with their applications.
9. The Smart and Digital City Strategy for the city of Montreal includes open, interoperable, and technological architecture as goals and this is part of smart city procurement.
11. The Getting Smarter about Smart Cities report published by the Government of Ireland includes privacy and security recommendations.
13. In Canada right now a Multistakeholder Process: for Enhancing IoT Security is ongoing and has published useful resources related to vulnerabilities, standards, policies, and etc.
14. the Reduction of Harm and Bias in automated processes is key, and The New York City’s Council has passed a bill to establish a task force to make recommendations to make software uses more transparent especially when it comes to automated decision-making.
15. In Europe, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will legislate a right to explanation to improve transparency about decision-making, access, and algorithms.
16. While organizations like the Community Control Over Police Surveillance (COPS) a civil liberties partnership aims to ensure that a regulated process is in place to examine automated programs that target and police people in 20 US cities.
17 -18. The Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning (FAT/ML) coordinates the work of critical scholars and publishes principles for accountable algorithms and a social impact statement for algorithms.
19. Local and Sustainable Procurement is a way to support local companies in lieu of only relying on large multinationals located outside of Canada. The Forum for the Future’s Sustainable Procurement Tool, includes strategies to support local procurement and the production cycle.
21. The Guelph’s Civic Accelerator Program also supports local suppliers for innovative solutions to address city’s business needs.
22. Finally, while Sustainability is often a goal the procurement of millions of IOT does not align with those smart city goals and the full production cycle of technology is rarely taken into. As discussed earlier e-Watch is an example while the City of Seoul Sharing City initiative is a consumption reduction process.
The guide these examples and more and are organized under the headings of:
Fit for Purpose
Repaired and Queried
Open Source
Open Standards
Cybersecurity and Data Security
Reduction of Harm and Bias
Local Procurement
Rachel
The fourth characteristic concerns data governance, It states that,
Rachel
Data management considers the full data lifecycle, from collection to preservation, and this includes technologies, source code, sensors and etc. The geomatics community and scientists have been using remote and sensor-based technologies, situationally aware analytics, augmented reality and 3D visualization and algorithms to model urban and environmental systems. Some geomatics and science based actors include Centre for Open Science, Canada’s Spatial Data Infrastructure, Arctic SDI, Ocean Networks Canada, and OGC.
In terms of residency, we have seen concerns raised about outsourcing e-communications outside national boundaries ( see the ‘Seeing Through the Cloud report’) and also have observed the way that Estonia’s government is innovatively retaining control of their crucial data stored abroad via the establishment of a data embassy.
Open by default is a principle specified in the International Open Data Charter and Open Knowledge International provides a go to definition for open data. Other related organizations in Canada are the Open Data Institute and powered by data.
Data security is an important consideration for open smart cities which Tracey has discussed.
In addition, data privacy is another commonly raised concern and is linked to security. There are numerous resources and actors working on promoting privacy by design and researching privacy implications raised by smart cities. This include the future of privacy forum, which has a repository of smart city resources on privacy, the surveillance studies centre at Queens University, and Privacy Analytics Inc. who have advised on de-indentifying smart meter data in Ontario.
Finally, models and technologies are emerging that aim to grant people access and authority over their personal data and with whom they are shared. This includes Finland’s MyData model, Estonia’s X-road interoperability layer, and the green button initiative adopted by Ontario’s Ministry of Energy.
Tracey
Tracey
Cities are faced with a number of complex socio economic issues that require more than technological solutionist approaches to their resolution and there is a concern that the data and networked urbanism type of smart city will not focus on these. In an open smart city, issues such as homelessness, aboriginal people living in urban areas, accessibility, refugee settlement and food security are but some of the systemic issues that should not be ignored because there is not IoT application that will fix these and smart and innovation social processes are required and should be valued in order to resolve issues.
Tracey
An open smart city then…
tracey
Tracey
This Open Smart City Guide V 1.0 is not perfect, and we fully acknowledge many of its limitations, and this is why we need your help. For example:
It could have been organized by smart city component, specific technologies or software stacks
And we most certainly would have benefited from a more consultative process and this is especially the case when it comes to legal, cybersecurity, standards and industry expertise.
Consulting residents, makers, civil liberties organizations, civic technology groups and more would also have improved this guide.
And we could have taken a less institutional approach. But in this one year project, we first had to
Understand what smart cities are, and then define what an Open Smart City might be, we were most certainly able to identify gaps in current data and networked urbanism approaches, and we were able to identify many useful resources , which we think is a good start and we hope you find the Guide useful and that you will help us improve and grow it.
Tracey
Tracey
Please see the following resources created during the course of this 1 year project. These include:
Executive Summary of a smart city E-Scan and 5 Canadian case studies
A Cities Assessment Report
Our V1.0 Guide
The CIPPIC FAQ
Webinars 1 and 2