Human Ecosystemsfrom conflict to co-existence in contemporary cities

Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico

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“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

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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

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