Leer van smartcityprojecten wereldwijd

Op 7 juni organiseerden we een feedbacksessie met het Internationale Kwaliteitsteam in samenwerking met onze City Deal partner Amsterdam Smart City. Acht internationale deskundigen uit de smartcitywereld deelden hun visie over waar we mee bezig zijn in de City Deal en gaven interessante tips van projecten waar wij weer van kunnen leren.

Deze smartcityexperts namen deel aan de sessie:

• Aarhus: Bo Fristed, CIO, City of Aahus
• Berlijn:  Frans Vogelaar, Co-founder Hybrid Space Lab
• Vlaanderen:  Ronald Hermans (Smart Region Officer) en Nils Walravens (Advisor Smart Region and Digitization) VLAIO
• New York City: Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director of BetaNYC
• The Philippines: Kris Villanueva-Libunao, Executive Director of SmartCT
• San Francisco: Jonathan Reichental, Former CIO of Palo Alto & author of Smart Cities for Dummies
• Toronto: Alice Xu, Hamish Goodwin (Management Consultant Smart City), City of Toronto

Bekijk hieronder de goede voorbeelden die zij deelden.

Digital literacy

• Kiez Lab – In Berlin we are setting up Kiez Lab a local mobile lab for introducing the digital to all. This are neighborhood laboratories to promote public discourse on the digital future of Berlin and to jointly develop the Berlin digitization strategy https://hybridspacelab.net/project/kiez-lab/
• Getting kids engaged in this topic: https://www.smartcitybook.com/kids/
• For an overview (in Dutch) of the initiatives of the Government of Flanders related to e-inclusion have a (Google Translated) look here: https://www.mediawijs.be/nl/dossiers/digitale-inclusie
• RADAR A community service provided by BetaNYC’s Civic Innovation Lab https://beta.nyc/products/research-and-data-assistance-requests/
• Open Knowledge Belgium organises Open Summer of Code where students work on open data challenges in companies and gov org https://osoc.be/
• BetaNYC run’s an open data training program with every day New Yorkers. We teach them how to represent data and technology in various communities. https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/open-data-ambassadors/
  >> This is a background on how we train college students to work on various smart cities projects. Mostly data and research projects. https://beta.nyc/programs/civic-innovation-lab/

Open data & public sector

• Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) is building the foundation for a global market where digital services can scale sustainably. https://oascities.org/
• Aarhus City Lab – Aarhus Municipality’s lab for development and testing of new technology https://aarhuscitylab.dk/
• GovTech Midtjylland is a working community that supports the work with new technology across 16 Central Jutland municipalities and the Central Jutland Region. https://govtechmidtjylland.dk/
• Danish OS2 – Public Digitalization Network – The OS2 network is about specifying, procuring, and governing of digital solutions made by public bodies and for public bodies – in collaboration with private vendors, without vendor-lock in. https://os2.eu/ and https://os2.eu/node/5282
• The national Danish Open Data initiative: https://www.opendata.dk/
• Toronto’s Digital Infrastructure Strategic Framework is available at https://www.toronto.ca/digitalto

Sensors

• City of Amsterdam’s sensor register (primarily in Dutch): https://www.amsterdam.nl/privacy/camera-sensoren-privacy/ https://openresearch.amsterdam/en/page/80868/sensorenregister-amsterdam

Citizens science

• The Flemish government took a (far) more limited initiative and developed a “best purchase” model that local governments can use to make a more informed decision when buying IoT solutions https://smart.flanders.be/smart-flanders-2.0/citizen-science
• A guidebook on citizen science for local governments was also developed and is available in EN: https://www.scivil.be/en/book/citizen-science-local-government
• BetaNYC navigated this issue with NYC open data. That’s what led us to create “data journeys” — how do use various data products to make decisions. https://beta.nyc/products/nyc-opendata-classes/#102
  >> Here is an updated version of our data joruney worksheet https://bit.ly/journey_worksheet_v2
  >> Here are some of the virtual videos we created. https://beta.nyc/nyc-opendata-journeys/

• Creating public value by exchanging data – How to design a data collaborative project of govlab-ny https://datacollaboratives.org/

Predictive data models

• imec in Belgium is working a model to fuse data from different sources https://smart.flanders.be/smart-flanders-2.0/cityflows
• The VLOED project in Flanders is also working on predictive models for crowds: https://stad.gent/nl/over-gent-stadsbestuur/stadsbestuur/wat-doet-het-bestuur/gent-internationaal/samen-internationaal-werken/europese-subsidies-en-projecten/kunnen-we-drukte-de-stad-voorspellen
• This is the Busyness radar of city of Amsterdam which is publicly accessible: https://druktebeeld.amsterdam.nl/
• Same for the Belgian coast: https://www.dekust.be/nl/strand-dijk-en-drukte

Ethics

• In Flanders we have a Knowledge Centre that supports govs and companies with ethical questions and have a bunch of tools available: https://data-en-maatschappij.ai/tools
• The Getting Started with Being Smart and Data-Driven for LGUs Card Kit provides a visual and non-technical overview of the most important elements, actions, and aspects that make up a data-driven local government. https://smartctph.github.io./getting-started-with-smart-and-data-driven-lgus/index.html
• City of Amsterdam’s Responsible Sensing Toolkit – This Toolkit empowers municipalities and organizations that want to implement sensing technologies for public space in a responsible manner: https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/updates/news/responsible-sensing-toolkit-is-live
• Sparking a Conversation Around Policing in NYC https://www.ideo.com/case-study/sparking-a-conversation-around-policing-in-nyc
• Creative Tensions is not a panel; it’s a conversation that moves. Reflecting on a tension between two poles, participants reveal where they stand on an issue by where they stand—and move—in the room. https://creativetensions.com/

Wil je in contact komen met een van de projecten of de smartcityexperts? Voel je vrij direct contact op te nemen of mail naar wendolijn@future-city.nl.