My talk at the Ninux Day 2016 in Florence.

1. #NinuxDay2016

2. http://wiki.ninux.org/NinuxDay2016/

3. Fog and the City
an urbanist's perspective

4. mesh networks

5. a network topology in which all nodes cooperate to distribute
data

6. fog computing

7. peripherical clients/devices carry out (a substantial amount of)
storage, communication, control, configuration, measurement,
and management

8. fog computing is a distributed paradigm that provides
cloud-like services to the network edge
Source: Amir Vahid Dastjerdi, Rajkumar Buyya, Fog Computing: Helping the
Internet of Things Realize its Potential

9. it leverages cloud and edge resources along with its own
infrastructure
Source: Amir Vahid Dastjerdi, Rajkumar Buyya, Fog Computing: Helping the
Internet of Things Realize its Potential

10. fog for smart cities

11. smart grid

12. smart traffic lights and connected vehicles

13. wireless sensor and actuator networks

14. decentralized smart building control

15. iot and cyber-physical systems

16. software defined networks

17. why does it matter?

18. end users are involved in the computation effort

19. security

20. privacy concerns

21. the main security issues are authentication at different
levels of gateways
Source: Ivan Stojmenovic, Sheng Wen, The Fog Computing Paradigm:
Scenarios and Security Issues

22. open source
architecture

23. "vernacular" awareness

24. glocalism

25. developing/sharing best practices

26. involvement of...

27. inhabitants, professionals, NGOs, public agencies,
researchers, activists, artists, sociologists, and urban
scientists
Source: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Urbanism

28. meant to study, construct, and repair the city in a way that
anyone may choose, participate, share, and modify
theories, methods, and implementation technologies at any
one time
Source: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Urbanism

29. civic engagement

30. in the disciplines of urban design and architecture, it is
imperative to consider the social, environmental, and
economic contexts in which they exist
Source: Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Mirko Guaralda, An urban
informatics approach to smart city learning in architecture and urban design
education

31. around the world, civic engagement is paramount to
promoting democracy and equity throughout urban
planning, policy reform, and design
Source: Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Mirko Guaralda, An urban
informatics approach to smart city learning in architecture and urban design
education

32. mesh networking only represents one small (albeit critical)
part of the overall smart city infrastructure
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

33. technology can (and should) also be deployed to elaborate
and deploy innovative systems of governance
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

34. a truly emancipatory technology should not only provide
the means for citizens to become more independent and
autonomous within their own city, but also to exercise
greater control and oversight over the municipality
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

35. privacy/comfort
trade-off?

36. quite the contrary
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

37. the need to align innovation policies for smart cities
deployment with better urban development and greater
citizen empowerment requires reconsidering the role of
citizens as the central focus of smart cities development
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

38. the general approach to smart cities deployment must
integrate the social component to the technical component
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

39. through the deployment of mesh networks, citizens can set
up their own smart-city environments, by connecting
several devices together in a decentralized fashion within a
peer-to-peer network
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

40. without the need for a centralized authority
Source: Primavera De Filippi, Community Mesh Networks: Citizens'
Participation in the Deployment of Smart Cities

41. break free from
closed-loop
systems!

42. is the urbanist
obsolete?

43. phigital approach

44. urban informatics

45. ensuring optimal resource distribution

46. interface local/global

47. easing the transition towards self-regulating communities

48. Colophon

49. vim, Hovercraft!, Ubuntu Xenial Xerus

50. Roberto Reale

51. https://robertoreale.me/ninux-day-2016