Cybercity is a city in which data on all possible activities is gathered , structured, analyzed and decisions are made and executed automatically (when possible and desired) on the basis of data in real time, with residents and authorities participating. Cybercity is not however a city in cyberspace. Cybercity is the next development step after smartcities.

2. Cybercities as
organizations based on
data refining and
feedback
Dr. Pawel Kuczma,
University of Warsaw / Amnet Poland

3. Inspirations
Norbert Wiener’s and Marian Mazur’s approaches to
cybernetics (Wiener 1948, Mazur 1966) and Friedrich
von Hayek’s idea of the market which disseminates
dispersed information (Hayek 1945).

4. How cities utilize open data
Source: bing.com
New York City Warsaw Shanghai

5. Warsaw, Poland
• Open data platform: danepowarszawsku.pl
• Number of datasets published: 57
• Exemplary data usage

6. New York, United States
• Open data platform:
opendata.cityofnewyork.us
• Number of datasets published: 1786
• Exemplary data usage

7. Shanghai, China
• Open data platform: datashanghai.gov.cn
• Number of datasets published: 1 268
• Examplary data usage

8. How cities open their data
• The more open government,
the bigger data opened by
cities
• Some cities publish data on
country Open data portals
• Competitions/hackatons to
drive interests in Open Data

9. What is Cybernetics
Cybernetics – the methods of receiving, storing, processing and using
information on machines, living organisms, and their associations (Kolmogorov)
Kolmogorov A. N., “Kibernetika” in Bol’shaia Sovetskaia entsiklopediia, wydanie drugie, Vol. 51 (1958), s. 149. Cyt. za: Mindell D., Segal J., Gerovitch S., From communications
engineering to communications science: cybernetics and information theory in the United states, France, and the Soviet Union, w: Walker M., „Science and Ideology: A
Comparative History”, London 2003, p. 88. “Giant Panda - Da Mao” by Blair Gannon is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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10. What is a Cybercity
Cybercity – a city in which data on all possible activities is gathered ,
structured, analyzed and decisions are made and executed automatically
(when possible and desired) on the basis of data in real time, with residents
and authorities participating
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Source: bing.com
CYBERCITY≠ CITY IN THE CYBERSPACE

11. Evolution of cities
City SmartCity CyberCity
Technology,
Participation, Automation
One-way
communication
Technology changing
authorities-residents
relationship

12. Cybercity – how it works
Inspired by: Easton D., An Approach to an Analyis of Political System, „World Politics”, Vol 9, Nr 3 Apr 1957, s. 384,
online.sfsu.edu/sguo/Renmin/June2_system/Political%20System_Easton.pdf.

13. Key benefits from cybercities
• Efficiency (faster, more accurate decisions and
actions)
• Focus on what’s most important
• Big Data (incl. Open Data) to be used to boost the
economy
• Citizens engagement and participation

14. A machine to run cities
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._A._Bonsack,_Cigarette_Rolling_Machine.jpg
State apparatus
(Dominique Dubarle, 1948)

15. Cyberstructures in the history
– Chile Cybersyn
Source: Beer S., Project Cyberfolk, Santiago 1972, p. 4, digitool.jmu.ac.uk:8881/R/42Q8KSFVI8KTHGNJHGD6NJV2VFQ1YUY79RM5J17R1TY88AD8YE-00400?func=dbin-jump-
full&object_id=16107&local_base=GEN01&pds_handle=GUEST [dostęp 26.10.2014]. Cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/index.html [dostęp 27.02.2014, 17:34].

16. Challenges of Cybercities
Data
• Inaccurate data
• Insufficient amount of data / Data overflow
• Privacy
• Inconsistent data
Technology
• Technical barriers
• Security and manipulation
• Cost
People
• Citizens’ ambiguity
• Lack of skills
• Politics

17. Source: originalprop.com, freemovieposters.net

18. Key questions for future
cybercities development
• Who sets the decision criteria?
• What is the role of the protein interface (humans)?
• Who runs the machines who(?) run the countries?
• What ’independence’ and ’democracy’ means? Would it be still
relevant?
• Would the machine need us to run the world?

19. 谢 谢
Thanks
2017年第二届智慧城市国际论坛暨首届市长圆桌会议
2017 IFSC & The First Mayors Roundtable
Dr. Pawel Kuczma
University of Warsaw / Amnet Poland (Dentsu Aegis Network)
p.kuczma@uw.edu.pl