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Cities in the Age of the PlatformGetting the Deal Right on City Data
Smart Cities and Urban Innovation Forum
UNSW 1 June 2016
Dr. Sarah Barns,Urban Studies FoundationPostdoctoral Fellow Western Sydney University
Director, Esem Projects Future Cities Advisor, Data61/CSIRO
Imagining the Computer of the 21st centuryMark Weiser and colleaguesXerox PARC 1980s.
‘Life on Demand’ Media habits in daily
life
Metcalfe’s Law: value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network
‘A new science of cities’ “New sources of data coordinated with urban policy can be applied following fundamental principles of engineering to achieve new solutions to important age-old urban problems” – Luis Bettencourt, Santa Fe Institute
THE STUDY OF THE CITY AS A SYSTEM…to help it become more productive, livable, equitable and resilient
“Not since the planting of cobblestones, the laying of
water mains, or the roll out of sewage pipes have we installed such a vast and versatile new infrastructure for controlling
and organising our physical world”
Anthony Townsend, Smart Cities, 2013
In 2012, for the first time ever, the TED Prize went not to an individual, but to an idea on
which our planet's future depends: the City 2.0
“[From] 2012 it made less and less sense to talk about 'the Internet’, 'the PC business,' 'telephones,' 'Silicon Valley,' or 'the media,' and much more sense to just study Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
These big five American vertically organized silos are re-making the world in their image. ”-Bruce Stirling speaking to Kevin Kelly (Wired)
Combine technology layer, data layer and community layer.
APIs build ecosystems of producers and consumers that deliver services to each other on a common platform.
Platforms are software-driven innovation ecosystems
‘The Age of the Platform-Play’
What does the Age of the
Platform mean for smart cities?
Smart Cities in The Age of the Platform
“Nurturing platforms requires thinking at the nexus of software design and business strategy”
“The architecture of a platform is inseparable from how it ought to be governed” —Amrit Tiwana
“Platforms are only as useful as the communities that use them” —Tom Baker
‘The second wave of digital transformation in government – Gov.Uk’
‘Government as a Platform’
Data Services
Constantine Kontokosta & team
“Underlying every other crisis in the city was an information crisis.” – Detroit (Jerry Paffendorf)
CITY DASHBOARDS: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES WORLD COUNCIL ON CITY OPEN DATA PORTAL(ISO 37210)
Integrating open data with performance monitoring and governance?
Governments lack access to essential data to improve data-driven decision making
Dealing with data shadows…
Document & measure impact
Match public challenge areas
& data custodians in
trusted environments
Convene data providers and
usersExperiment and scale
Data Collaboratives
Source: Gov Lab, Verherst
Technology & data
services
Digital Entreprene
urs
City Government
s
Citizens & Researchers
Thank [email protected]
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