1. Dr. Peter Passaro - peter@datai.st - @theDataist
Research Fellow for Social and Civic Data Science
WHAT IS BRIGHTON?

3. BRIGHTON?

4. Building Better Futures
What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts?
Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the
stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think,
never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts,
and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown
future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! Robert A. Heinlein
©Rob
Webb
Photography

5. What if We Had the God’s Eye (Data) View of Brighton?

7. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

8. BRIGHTON DATA
We should own it
It should be accessible to
everybody here
Should it be accessible to
everybody else?
©Rob
Webb
Photography

9. A platform for creating the
world I want to live in
A place where anything is
possible
The potential to be the best
example of an innovation
environment anywhere in the
world
THIS CITY IS:

10. LOCAL KNOWLEDGE, GLOBAL IMPACT
OUR FUTURE IS URBAN

11. WHAT ARE WE UP TO?
• Building an Academic Programme in Social
and Civic Data Science
• Encouraging Cities and Towns to be
Participatory Experiments In Better Living
• Building Platforms that Enable Citizens to
Create Better Urban Information
Architectures and Systems
• Save the Date: 18-20 Sept 2015
CITY DATA HACKATHON