A lecture given originally at EComm in Amsterdam 2009, Peers in the City explores aspects of the intelligent city, cultural innovations around freelancers and crowd curated events like Barcamp, as well as outlining some of the ubiquitous computing technologies being developed by this leading edge of practisioners against the context of gradual climate degredation and economic uncertainty.
12. 1 st dimension of an intelligent city: The intelligence , inventiveness and creativity of the individuals who live and work in the city. Nicos Komninos
13. 2nd dimension of an intelligent city: relates to the collective intelligence of a city’s population : ‘the capacity of human communities to co-operate intellectually in creation, innovation and invention’.
14. 3rd dimension of an intelligent city: relates to artificial intelligence embedded into the physical environment of the city and available to the city’s population: communication infrastructure, digital spaces and public problem-solving tools available to the city’s population.
23. “ A barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment . It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.”
29. Selection of camps from 2009: Homeless Connect Camp, Health Camp, LayedOff Camp , Mobile Camp, Cloud Camp, Write Camp, Campaign Camp, Single Life Camp, Cantine Crisis Camp Global Phenomenon: From Buenos Aires to Hyderbad to Lagos to St. Petersburg to Hanoi to New Orleans. In 2009, 3008 camps held .
33. MIT SenseLab – Trash|Talk Can these pervasive technologies make 100% recycling a reality?
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35. 1. GIVE US THE DATA Make data available in easy to use formats that developers can quickly reuse ( raw data available for download , APIs) 2. CREATE INCENTIVES Fund competitions or encourage your local community to get involved with prototyping new types of services