Involving citizens and communities in the development of smart cities - Kevin O'Malley
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Kevin O’Malley, Partnership Development Manager, City Innovation, Bristol City Council, speaking at Arup offices, on 20 April, 2015, as part of ODI Futures: How to scale open smart cities: data, networks, culture.Bringing together people from across the public, private and academic sectors, the event explored how we can design, share, collaborate and use information to create better cities that put people, rather than technology, first. Watch the event session videos -bit.ly/odifutures_sc_videoODI & Smart Cities: theodi.org/smart-citiesMore ODI contentVideos: bit.ly/odi_vimeoPhotos: bit.ly/odi_flickrAudio: bit.ly/odi_soundcloudPresentations: bit.ly/odi_scribdTweets: bit.ly/odi_tweetsOur website: theodi.org
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Involving citizens & communities in the development of Smart Cities
Kevin O’Malley City InnovationTeam Manager
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Know thyself
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Why involve citizens in the development of smart cities?
l Smart Cities programmes are not just technology programmes- people want more liveable Cities not Smarter Cities
l Citizens understand the problems intimately l One size won’t fit all l Buy in and support critical to success
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Successful Smart Cities should be...
l Useful: responding to real user needs l Usable: intuitive and straightforward to interact
with l Accessible: Inclusive and open for all to use l Acceptable: secure, safe, enabling, benign,
trustworthy l ….oh, and the tech should work
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Involving citizens
l The challenge - Size and diversity of Cities - Smart City concepts & technology - Access to ‘hard to reach’ citizens
l Citizens have existing relationships with Authorities- not always positive- interactions can feel ‘top down’
l Trusted third party intermediaries with access, local credibility & ability to communicate
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
How to involve citizens
l City as Testbed and Living Lab, co-producing solutions
l Local partners providing regular support, intervention and enabling active participation
l Bristol Living Lab used effectively in multiple projects over 7 years
l Plans to extend Living Lab network and form digital citizens panel
l Ethics, security and privacy board
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Conclusions l Cities are dynamic, characterful patchworks of
communities and neighbourhoods l Cities aren't neat and tidy l Top down, homogenous citywide solutions may be
resisted l Infrastructure and systems need to be flexible enough
to support distinctiveness, diversity and quirkiness of Cities and enable communities to build the services they want (Open Programmable City)
l If not we may end up knowing the location of everything but the value of nothing.
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Bristol Futures City Innovation Team
Thanks
www.connectingbristol.org
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