Category: Smart Cities
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Workshop: Too Much Data?
Today I participated in a workshop with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs for the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities called, “Too Much Data?”
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Workshop: Evaluating Emerging Technologies
Today I helped Sharon Kennedy Vickers, Chief Information Officer for the City of Saint Paul to conduct a 4-hour workshop at the Code for America Summit: Evaluating Emerging Technologies. Here’s documentation, including notes on all table discussions.
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Paper: “Making a Smart City a Fairer City”
Today some of my thoughts on Chicago’s smart cities efforts were published in a paper from Princeton University’s Innovations for Successful Societies: “Making a Smart City a Fairer City: Chicago’s Technologists Address Issues of Privacy, Ethics, and Equity, 2011-2018” Here’s a complete PDF and here’s a snip: Daniel O’Neil, who led the Smart Chicago Collaborative, advised…
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Paper: “Big Data and Smart (Equitable) Cities”
Some of the work I helped fund and guide was covered in a paper published this month by Mai Thi Nguyen and Emma Boundy: “Big Data and Smart (Equitable) Cities“ Here’s a snip: “The main commonality between most cities was the development of public computing centers to improve access. Dan O’Neil, Executive Director of the…
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New story: Chicago seeking ‘smart-city’ tech solutions to improve city life
Today I was quoted in an article on smart cities: “Chicago seeking ‘smart-city’ tech solutions to improve city life“. (Here’s the complete text). I am currently a skeptic when it comes to believing that smart cities is a path to freedom: “How do we connect these abstract, big-picture, big-data initiatives to the needs of the…
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News Article: Chicago seeking ‘smart-city’ tech solutions to improve city life
Today I was quoted in an article in the Chicago Tribune about Chicago’s “smart city” efforts. Here are two relevant snips: “How do we connect these abstract, big-picture, big-data initiatives to the needs of the residents of Chicago who are struggling under a failure to fund education and under a police force that thwarts the…
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PANEL: Looking at Infrastructure: Smart Cities & Smart Government
Today I participated in a panel discussion about Smart Cities. We covered a lot of ground, including equity. Looking at Infrastructure: Smart Cities & Smart Government – Embark on a panel discussion regarding the issues associated with smart city projects ranging from infrastructure considerations to imperatives regarding privacy, ownership, and stewardship of data, to funding…