Cristina Zurbriggen Mariana González Universidad de la República

1. thefutureofurban-sustainable
development
Transformingknowledgeforchange
City as a Commons
1st Thematic IASC Conference on the Urban Commons
Cristina Zurbriggen
Mariana González
Universidad de la República

2. CityandGlobalDebates
• The great transformation of post-neoliberal societies
relocate a strong debate based on:
– The impact on social inequality
– Environmental issues
– Social Innovation (Oosterlynck et al.,2013; Moulaert,
2013).
• The Commons (Hardt & Negri, 2009; D. Harvey, 2012; P.
Linebaugh, 2008; Mattei, 2011; Bollier, 2002…)
• ¿Smart Cities or Open Cities or Cities as commons?

3. InnovativeInitiativesinUrbanPolicies
Innovation in urban policy is moving to the top of the
agenda at all local governments in most parts of the
world.
Cities and citizens are actively seeking new ways to
engage in new platforms and methods for solving problems
together.
• From government initiative: Platforms, Labs
• Experiences of self-organization of civil society to
seek concrete solutions to their problems
• From Market

4. keyquestions
¿What are the drivers of innovation
in Urban policies?
¿commercial purposes?
¿solving public services issues?
¿ commons values?

5. thefutureofurbanPolicies
The future of urban Policies: City as a
Commons
Topic: Co-production of Open Data Urban
Policies as a driver for City as a
Commons

6. Cityasacommons
• Development of social capital with modern (ICT-
based) infrastructure for sustainable growth and
the improvement of life quality with a wise
management of natural resources, through citizen
participation
• Co-creation of commons values: In terms of
creating public value, the public sector and the
civil society can provide significant inputs into
the process of using open data to help to solve
cities problems

7. OpendatAurbanPolicies
EMERGINGOPENDATACOMMUNITYINLATINAMERICA
• Cities (where 84% of people live) are engaging with
their communities, business and social organizations to
deliver new outcomes in terms of urban governance in key
areas: transport, social services and others provided by
cities´ governments.
•Open data policies and open government data are vital to
achieve social outcomes.

8. OpendatAurbanPolicies
EMERGINGOPENDATACOMMUNITYINLATINAMERICA
• Mexico City set up an innovation city lab - improvement of
citizens lives by partnering with civil society and civic
developers.
• Buenos Aires set-up a collaborative space for innovation
inside the public sector to deal with policy problems engaging
the community of users.
• Montevideo´s civil society organizations have developed
collaborative practices to create software solutions to
improve public services, leading to co-creation and
integration of services (Sasaki, 2012)

9. OpendatAurbanPolicies
TheCaseofMontevideo
• First city in Latin America with an open data policy
(2010)
• Pioneer in using open source and free software (National
law promoting the use of Free Software and Open
Standards).
• First steps towards open data policy - publication of
geographical information:
http://sig.montevideo.gub.uy/content/informacion-general
• Approved access to information law (18831)

10. OpendatAurbanPolicies
ThecaseofMontevideo
Alliance for Open Government
• Agency for Electronic Government and
Information Society (AGESIC) (2006)
• Active Role of the Civil Society
• Open Government Network http://rga.uy/

11. OpenGovernmentNetwork
http://rga.uy/

12. OpendatAurbanPolicies
ThecaseofMontevideo
• Open Roundtable - issues of Transparency,
Accountability and Anti-Corruption (2013)
• Open Roundtable 2014
• Open Roundtable 2015
• Objective - Create an environment of collective
construction between government, academia and civil
society to contribute to the Plan of Action and Open
Government (2014-2016).

13. Studycase.Data

14. TheCaseofData
Since 2011 combining Local & Global
Active local and regional participation in the creation
of Open data dialogues
In the Region- The Latin American Open Data Institute
(ILDA) 2012
First conference ILDA in Montevideo 2013
Participation since 2011 in Open Government
Partnershiphttp://ogp summit.org/agenda_es.html

15. TheCaseofData

16. TheCaseofData
http://www.pormibarrio.uy/

17. TheCaseofData

18. TheCaseofData

19. ModelsofOpenDataEnvironment
Fuente:Scrollini,2014

20. ResearchQuestions
•How can we foster and promote an
ecosystem of co-production of open data
in urban policies to improve the city as
a commons?
•What ecosystem (values, policies and
measure mechanisms) are needed to support
these initiatives beyond their initial
phase, allowing them to persist and
spread desired impacts?

21. Aframeworktounderstandanecosystem
ofco-production ofopendataurbanpolicies
• Co-production solutions require new ways of working
collaboratively
• A common future vision
• Proactive action in cities, through learning-by-doing in the
creation of knowledge, action-research for understanding
local inter-sectorial, cross-sectional, and multi-stakeholder
dialogues.
• Adaptive behaviour, resilience, and mindfulness.
• Requires participants to build a learning community together,
exploring collaborative models based on trust and collective

22. Aframeworktounderstand Anecosystem
ofco-production ofopendataurbanpolicies
Connect: Theory & Practices
• Our analytical framework is based on different
approaches of the future collaborative process (focus on
co-production) on innovation in public policy.
• The learning-by-doing knowledge creation and action-
research to engage the collective intelligence of
participants to solve social problem and create commons
values

23. A nEWframeworktounderstandopendataurban
policiesFutureUrbanPolicies
The study of future innovation processes introduce socio-
cultural and political complexity (Meadows): i.e policy
transfers (global dimension),future complex systemic thinking;
adaptive (Folke, 2006) and experimentalist approaches (Sabel &
Zeitlin, 2012), as well as co-production approach of knowledge
(Ostrom, 2009; Bamer, 2013), power relations (Marsh & Smith,
2001), deliberative democracy (Sabel, 2012) and adaptive
evaluation of public policies(Regeer et al., 2009; Patton,
2011).

24. UrbanCommonsCollective
Platform OpenDataUrbanPoliciesEcosystem
Addressing complex urban problems requires adaptive
strategic process:
• Strategic Road Map (programmatic work, influencing
policy, community mobilizing)
• Exploring Assumptions & Context: Future Tools (Labs,
Scenario Planning, Pre-Mortem, etc.); Systems Mapping
Power/Influence Mapping
• Developing Strategies: The process.
• Adaptive Planning Measures to monitor progress
• Measures of Impact

25. Platform OpenDataUrbanPoliciesEcosystem
• Exploring emerging solutions and urban
policies innovation in comparative
perspective
• Exploring use and impact of Open Data
Urban Policies
• Develop qualitative and quantitative
indicators about the use of open data.
• Measurement of open data policy and
practices