Smart Citizenship: Recovering the productive role of society through new technologies
Five years ago we launched the concept of Smart Citizen, it was the result of many tech and thought experiments developed over the years at the Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, and inspired by the work of friends such as Arduino and Pachube. In 2011, it was quite adventurous to imagine an Smart City model different than the landscape painted by big technology corporations were selling everywhere as an IT based urban playground, where citizens were seen as mere consumers. Since then we have already deployed more than 1.200 sensors all over the world, which can be seen in our website: smartcitizen.me, we have worked with more than 20 universities and have been used as a study case in many academic papers. Now cities are using the term smart citizen as a standard to define citizen participation in the smart city agenda. We are advocating for making technology valuable for people’s life, not as a consumer good, but as a real tool that empowers citizen and take their role in their cities into a next level and we feel this just have started.
Date: 14 February 2017, 15:00
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Speaker: Guillem Camprodon (Fab City Global Initiative, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia)
Organising department: Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
Organiser: Dr Lisa Dilling
Organiser contact email address: enquiries@insis.ox.ac.uk
Part of: InSIS seminar series: Science in your own hands?
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Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Sophie Haines, Stacey Richardson