Presentation for @Platform 31 on Waag Society, it's methods, open data & CitySDK.

1. Smart Cities?
Smart Citizens!
Frank Kresin
Research Director
@kresin / frank@waag.org

2. Waag Society

3. Co-creation

4. Fablab – Makers Guild

5. Wetlab

6. Events

7. Designers & Artists 4 Genomics

8. Development Community

9. Principles:
Best producer is the user
(S)he can learn to make
anything
Sharing is key to innovation
Making is crucial to
understand & act in the
world

10. Creative Research

11. Bodyguard

12. Fairphone

13. Knowledge institutes
Developer hubs
Accelerators
Innovation labs

14. Open Data

15. City Service Development Kit
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 Open, interoperable service
interfaces.
 Processes, guidelines and usability
standards.
 Sharing, re-using and transferring city
solutions across cities.
 Not inventing from the scratch, but
mapping, using & developing global best
practices

16. Example
Schools:
1. Is there a safe bicycle lane towards
them?
2. How about the air quality?
3. Any sports field around them?
4. How many schools does this
neigborhood need?
5. How about scores?

17. • Interview with alderman
• Contact details on web
• Three files from the Department of
Education
• One open data website
• Two spreadsheets
• Several PDF’s
Data Sources

18. Widely varying identicications
Statistics
Office
Education
Department
Public
Transport
Service
Budget Office
Emergency
Services
Administration nr.
Coordinates
Various ID’s
Address & timetables
Budget ID

19. For each school:
• 6+ queries
• 6+ results
- Files
- Databases
- Values
- Standards

20. • Labor intensive
• Wide margins
• Unreliable
• Not interoperable
Results

21. THERE ARE BETTER WAYS

22. CitySDK Linked Data
• Collects
• Annotates
• Links
• Distributes

27. CitySDK Architecture
App
Intelligence
CitySDK mob.
Data in silos
Data in cities

29. http://citysdk.waag.org/map

30. • RT mobility data
• BAG viewer
• Parking API
• Orphaned Bikes
• Tourism in Amsterdam
• Emergency services
• City Dashboard
Cases

31. http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/

32. http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/visualisation/

33. Smart Parking Reducing Mobility
http://www.parkshark.nl/

34. http://bomenapp.nl/

36. Smart Citizen Kit

37. Design Rules for Smarter Cities
• Your citizens know more than you.
• Prototype early and fast, engage the stakeholders, iterate quickly and be
prepared to start all over.
• Embrace self-organisation and civic initiative, but help to make the results
sustainable and scalable.
• Know what you are talking about in the face of technology. Never rely on
consultants that will sell you more consultancy, not solutions.
• Have binding decisions made at the lowest level possible and actively preach
self-governance.
• Favour loosely coupled, smaller systems over monoliths and mastodons, and
use peer-defined standards to glue together the parts. Small systems tend to fail
sometimes; large systems fail for sure.
• To raise and deserve trust, build systems based on data reciprocity and
transparency.
• Reuse existing parts and design your additions for reuse, adding to the public
domain and thereby strengthening its capacity to act and learn.
http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

38. Pointers
• Design Rules for Smarter Cities
http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities
• Smart Citizens Publication
http://futureeverything.org/publications/smart-citizens/
• CitySDK Mobility API
http://citysdk.waag.org/api
• Open Design Now
http://opendesignnow.org/
• Smart Citizen Kit
http://www.smartcitizen.me/
• Apps for Europe - Turning Data into Business
http://www.appsforeurope.eu/

39. Piet Heinkade 181 a
1019 HC Amsterdam
waag.org
Thanks!
Frank Kresin - @kresin