Post on 22-Jan-2018
Human Ecosystemsfrom conflict to co-existence in contemporary cities
Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico
human-ecosystems.com ubiquitouscommons.org
“DATA IS IN THE AIR”
Ubiquitous Data
[Human Ecosystems]
IMPLICIT / EXPLICIT
PUBLIC / PRIVATE / INTIMATE / ?
CONSCIOUS / UNCONSCIOUS
FORMAL / INFORMALgovernment
administrationbureaucracytransactions
…
micro-histories
CURRENT DATA SCENARIOnothing to say about:micro-histories, informality, implicit, unconscious(and a little bit of conscious, too)
why should we be interested in this kind of data?
why are Facebook, Google, NSA, Brand X, instead, interested in it?
and: do people even know/are interested about this data?
“SENSIBLE PEOPLE”
Citizens as sensors
what happens when
PEOPLE BECOME SENSORS
let’s make an example
POSTED ON FACEBOOK
PUBLISHES PICTUREOF VACATION AT THE BEACH
I am relaxingat the beach
for my friendsand connections
can afford togo on vacation
likes beach X
is in place Y
likes the beach
likes to sit on chairsin the waves
is overweight:risks for health
company X marketers employer, insurance
WHAT:
FOR WHO:
other scenarios
the bus is late
I’m worried about my job
I like my school
“DATA AS COMMONS”
Data, information and knowledge in the Human Ecosystem of the city
What can we learn from CYBERSYN?• The power of design and imaginary
• The power of visualizations
• The power of real-time information
• The power of transdiscipliaries approach
• The limits of top-down strategies and bureaucratized processes
• People, with their daily life and microhistories, are not part of the equation
• OpenData are prerequisite
• Not much has changed in how we imagine our smart cities!
from CONTROL ROOM to the REAL-TIME MUSEUM OF THE CITY
UBIQUITOUS COMMONS”
the commons for ubiquitous information
THE SCENARIO
• we generate massive amounts of information, through network connected devices
PROBLEM• we have no way to understand what
information we generate
• we have no way to understand how this information is used (directly and indirectly)
• we have no possibility to express how we want our information to be used
• we have no constructive way to build collaborative initiatives using all of this information
HYPOTHESIS
• create a peer-to-peer protocol
• (and, hence, ecosystem)
• which hosts our expression about intended usage of information, and
• which hosts the access mechanism to our data/information
CURRENT SCENARIO
note: scenario is shown for social networks, but also works for IoT, wearables and network connected devices
A LEGAL / TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLKIT
NEW SCENARIO
OUTCOMES
DATA-SUBJECTS CHOOSE FOR THE INFORMATION THEY
PUBLISH/GENERATE
“LICENSE” BECOMES POLYMORPHICBY CREATING NEW IDEA OF
IDENTITY
IDENTITY GENERATED USINGRELATIONAL AND TRUST
BASED MECHANISM
(HIGH QUALITY RELATIONAL ECOSYSTEM)
“LICENSE” CREATED BYATTRIBUTING DATA/INFOTO CERTAIN IDENTITIES
LICENSE DISTRIBUTED ONTO THE BLOCKCHAIN
THE ENTIRE BLOCKCHAIN VERIFIES ACCESS
TRANSACTIONS ARE LIKE MICRO-CONTRACTS: FULLY TRACEABLE
AND TRANSPARENT
COMMUNITIES/ORGS/PEOPLE CAN CREATE LICENSES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, BY
CREATINGTHEIR IDENTITIES
OPENS UP MULTIPLE TYPES OF ECONOMIES
NEXT STEPS
CREATE ADOPTION CASES
MOVE TO FIRMWARE OFIOT AND NETWORK CONNECTED
DEVICES