What are the possibilities of open data in the city? This presentation takes a look at different ways of imagining cities in the age of big data - and introduces some critical questions about rights to knowledge and infrastructure not only for urban planners but everyday citizens as well.

4. “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

5. Re-imagining the city:
The City as software development kit

7. Re-imagining the city: The Urban Operating System

8. 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

9. Re-imaging the city:
open data interventions

10. A new civics?
You are part of the mind of the smart city
itself. And that gives you power to shape
the future.
Look in your pocket. You already own a
smart-city construction kit.
The democratization of computing power
that started with the PC in the 1970s and
leaped onto the Internet in the 1990s is
now spilling out into the streets.
Anthony Townsend 2013

11. Re-imaging the City: Platform Urbanism

12. "In 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 remaking the world in their image. ”
-Bruce Stirling

13. When I wrote The
World Is Flat [in
2005] Facebook
did not exist,
Twitter was a
sound, the Cloud
was a sky, 4G
was a parking
space,
applications were
what you sent to
college, LinkedIn
was a prison,
and, for most
people, Skype
was a typo. All of
that changed in
Thomas Friedman, 2011

14. ‘Government as Platform’
There’s been a convulsive shock to
the system that’s creating this burning
platform in all of our institutions,” he
says. “This is it. This is happening
now.” – Don Tapscott
“If you’re really building a platform,
your customers and partners build
new features before you do”
– Tim O Reilly

15. Consumerisation of open data

16. Rights to infrastructure?