<Fair City Amsterdam> Nog meer Wissenschaft!

[Patrice Riemens]

Aloha,
Omdat ik niet met jullie kan gaan tuinieren (of zonnen) in de 
Dieselstraat (*), dan maar wat leuk lektuur (voor als het regent?)

http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/rethinking-the-smart-city/

RETHINKING THE SMART CITY
Democratizing Urban Technology
Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria - January 2018

ExecSum:

Following the celebration of the “creative city” (as described by 
Richard Florida), the “smart city” has become the new flavor of the 
month—and a brand. It makes clever use of resources, and it attracts 
money, corporate power, and private industries. Offering us cheap, 
effective solutions to social and political problems, the smart city is 
functional, optimized, and safe rather than participatory, sustainable, 
and fair.

As Evgeny Morozov and Francesca Bria point out, however, the problem is 
not merely the regulatory impulse of smart technologies. Coming from a 
political-economic rather than a purely technical perspective, the 
authors argue that the smart city can only be understood within the 
context of neoliberalism. In order to remain competitive in the era of 
austerity politics, cities hand over the management of public 
infrastructure and services to private companies, both de-centralizing 
and de-personalizing the political sphere.

How can cities regain control not only over technology, data, and 
infrastructure, but also over the services that are mediated by smart 
technologies—such as utilities, transportation, education, and health? 
Offering a wealth of examples and case studies from across the globe, 
the authors discuss alternative smart city models, which rely on 
democratic data ownership regimes, grassroots innovation, and 
cooperative service provision models.

Evgeny Morozov is a prominent critic of digital capitalism, dealing with 
questions of how major technology companies are transforming society and 
democracy. The author of several books, he also writes for various 
newspapers, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, 
and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. With a background in social science 
and innovation economics, Francesca Bria is an expert in digital 
strategy, technology, and information policy, who is active in various 
innovation movements advocating for open access, open technologies, and 
digital rights. She is currently Chief Technology and Digital Innovation 
Officer at the Barcelona City Council.

Laying out what works and what doesn’t in the smart city of today, the 
authors do not simply advocate for a high-tech version of socialism in 
the fifth publication of our “City Series.” By carefully assessing what 
is at stake and for whom, this timely study offers practical solutions 
for how cities can be smart while retaining their technological 
sovereignty.

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veel plezier en sterkte met het nieuwe dorp!
p+7D!


(*) Ik neem aan dat de straat naar die arme Rudolf genoemd is. Wisten 
jullie dat hij door kolenmijnen-baronnen van een Kanaal ferry overboord 
gekieperd is? (nou ja, ze deden het niet zelf natuurlijk, daar hebben 
groot-kapitalisten altijd wel 'mannetjes' voor ...)