Smart Cities?Smart Citizens!

Frank KresinResearch Director

@kresin / frank@waag.org

Waag Society

Co-creation

Fablab – Makers Guild

Wetlab

Events

Designers & Artists 4 Genomics

Development Community

Principles:

Best producer is the user

(S)he can learn to make anything

Sharing is key to innovation

Making is crucial to understand & act in the world

Creative Research

Bodyguard

Fairphone

Knowledge institutes

Developer hubs

Accelerators

Innovation labs

Open Data

City Service Development Kit

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Open, interoperable service interfaces. Processes, guidelines and usability standards. Sharing, re-using and transferring city solutions across cities. Not inventing from the scratch, but mapping, using & developing global best practices

ExampleSchools:

1. Is there a safe bicycle lane towards them?

2. How about the air quality?3. Any sports field around them?4. How many schools does this

neigborhood need?5. How about scores?

• Interview with alderman

• Contact details on web

• Three files from the Department of

Education

• One open data website

• Two spreadsheets

• Several PDF’s

Data Sources

Widely varying identicications

Statistics Office

Education Department

Public Transport Service

Budget Office

Emergency Services

Administration nr.

Coordinates

Various ID’s

Address & timetables

Budget ID

For each school:

• 6+ queries

• 6+ results

- Files

- Databases

- Values

- Standards

• Labor intensive

• Wide margins

• Unreliable

• Not interoperable

Results

THERE ARE BETTER WAYS

CitySDK Linked Data

• Collects

• Annotates

• Links

• Distributes

CitySDK Architecture

App

Intelligence

CitySDK mob.

Data in silos

Data in cities

http://citysdk.waag.org/map

• RT mobility data

• BAG viewer

• Parking API

• Orphaned Bikes

• Tourism in Amsterdam

• Emergency services

• City Dashboard

Cases

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/visualisation/

Smart Parking Reducing Mobility

http://www.parkshark.nl/

http://bomenapp.nl/

Smart Citizen Kit

Design Rules for Smarter Cities• Your citizens know more than you. • Prototype early and fast, engage the stakeholders, iterate quickly and be prepared

to start all over.• Embrace self-organisation and civic initiative, but help to make the results

sustainable and scalable.• Know what you are talking about in the face of technology. Never rely on

consultants that will sell you more consultancy, not solutions.• Have binding decisions made at the lowest level possible and actively preach self-

governance.• Favour loosely coupled, smaller systems over monoliths and mastodons, and use

peer-defined standards to glue together the parts. Small systems tend to fail sometimes; large systems fail for sure.

• To raise and deserve trust, build systems based on data reciprocity and transparency.

• Reuse existing parts and design your additions for reuse, adding to the public domain and thereby strengthening its capacity to act and learn.

http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

Pointers• Design Rules for Smarter Cities

http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

• Smart Citizens Publicationhttp://futureeverything.org/publications/smart-citizens/

• CitySDK Mobility APIhttp://citysdk.waag.org/api

• Open Design Nowhttp://opendesignnow.org/

• Smart Citizen Kithttp://www.smartcitizen.me/

• Apps for Europe - Turning Data into Businesshttp://www.appsforeurope.eu/

Piet Heinkade 181 a1019 HC Amsterdam

waag.org

Thanks!Frank Kresin - @kresin