Why the Smart Cities build by megacorporations cannot but fail. And what we need to learn from that in order to make online public spaces successful.

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Foundation For Public Code
Smart Cities and
Livable Networks
Boris van Hoytema — @bvhme
Future Sessions: Manchester, March 22nd 2018
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Boris van Hoytema
“My mission is to build an Open Source ecosystem for cities”
Hats
Director
Director
Open Source Advisor
Consortium Transnational Open Source Development Manager
The Foundation
For Public Code
Vurb.Agency
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Smart Cities
are the future
and have been now
for a decade
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What is a
Smart
City?
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City
+
Technology =
———————
Smart City
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Smart Cities
==
Digitisation and
modernisation of
government
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Vendor lock-in causes
Smart City burn-out
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Freedom
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Smart City Solutions try to be
end-to-end solutions integrating
everything in one monolithic software
application
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End-to-end solutions are like buying a
completely laid out street including
pavements, street furniture, lights
traffic plan etc.
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Which works for Disneyland
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But not for public space
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Since a city needs control
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The stack of the city as a platform is
one that is made up out of
interdependent functional components
and services.
Spatial planning departments weave
these components together.
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Sovereignty
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Code == Code
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You wouldn’t create a
desk
You wouldn’t buy a law
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You wouldn’t create a
desk
You wouldn’t buy a law
Word processor Parking permitting applicationBus ride payment system
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Policy == Software
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Code = Power
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Smart Cities?
Public Code
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Public Code is:
Public Policy
&
Public Software
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Public Software
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Components
● Functional business rules
● ‘Stateless’
● Easy to understand
● Microservices
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View Source
Every interaction should show you:
★ What data of yours is used
★ What happens to that data
★ To what other data it is
connected
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Accountable ★ First class Privacy and Security
★ Continuous Integration testing
★ Training sets have to be public
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Replayable
★ Any interaction can always be
reproduced or replayed later
★ Archive of every used version
★ Archive of every dependency
used
★ Every change documented
★ Relevant legislation and policy
linked to every change
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Open
● Open Source
● Forkable
● Suggestable
● Participatory
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Livable networks
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The internet grew as a decentralised
generative technology.
It relied on hobbyism, technical literacy
and good faith to function.
Near anarchy where government
presence is minimal.
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As less technically literate people
became dependent on the web it
changed.
Hobbyism and good faith is no longer
a driver, value extraction is.
Several megacorporations are
monopolising crucial services.
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Google
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Facebook
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“It’s time for a digital
protection agency”
– Paul Ford
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That is not the only
thing we can do!
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Some things are so
ubiquitously
necessary we provide
them collectively
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Software As A
Public Service
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We need
Public Cyberspace
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Usable
Digital Public Spaces
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Inclusive
Digital Public Spaces
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Adaptable
Digital Public Spaces
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Sustainable
Digital Public Spaces
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Safe
Digital Public Spaces
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Secure
Digital Public Spaces
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Digital Public
Postal Services
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Digital Public
Infrastructure
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Digital Public
Community Centers
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Digital Public
Parks
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Digital Public
Museums
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Digital Public
Arts Funding
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Digital Public
Education
Institutions
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Digital Public
Healthcare Services
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Digital Public
IoT Infrastructure
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Public Sensor
Registry
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★ Mandated registration of sensors
in the public space
★ Enable data sharing wherever
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Those services essential to everyone
can be offered as Digital Public
services on the internet.
As with cities the components of the
internet need to be woven together.
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Please join your local
Cyberspatial
Planning
Departments
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Digital Public
Commons,
Grand Travaux,
Inclusion,

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Thanks!
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