Smart City Citizenship
- 1st Edition - October 23, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Igor Calzada
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 3 0 0 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 3 0 1 - 7
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Request a sales quoteSmart City Citizenship provides rigorous analysis for academics and policymakers on the experimental, data-driven, and participatory processes of smart cities to help integrate ICT-related social innovation into urban life. Unlike other smart city books that are often edited collections, this book focuses on the business domain, grassroots social innovation, and AI-driven algorithmic and techno-political disruptions, also examining the role of citizens and the democratic governance issues raised from an interdisciplinary perspective. As smart city research is a fast-growing topic of scientific inquiry and evolving rapidly, this book is an ideal reference for a much-needed discussion. The book drives the reader to a better conceptual and applied comprehension of smart city citizenship for democratised hyper-connected-virialised post-COVID-19 societies. In addition, it provides a whole practical roadmap to build smart city citizenship inclusive and multistakeholder interventions through intertwined chapters of the book.
Users will find a book that fills the knowledge gap between the purely critical studies on smart cities and those further constructive and highly promising socially innovative interventions using case study fieldwork action research empirical evidence drawn from several cities that are advancing and innovating smart city practices from the citizenship perspective.
- Utilises ongoing, action research fieldwork, comparative case studies for examining current governance issues, and the role of citizens in smart cities
- Provides definitions of new key citizenship concepts, along with a techno-political framework and toolkit drawn from a community-oriented perspective
- Shows how to design smart city governance initiatives, projects and policies based on applied research from the social innovation perspective
- Highlights citizen’s perspective and social empowerment in the AI-driven and algorithmic disruptive post-COVID-19 context in both transitional and experimental frameworks
Smart cities, data science, AI, digital transformation, and applied social science lecturers, researchers, scientists, and graduate students; academics and policy makers working in several data and digital domains such as data analytics, AI, data governance, data labs, and office of data analytics (ODA); engineers, practitioners, and government officials working on smart city projects related to sustainability, transport, energy, environmental science, engineering, economics, public policy, behavioural science, ICT, and urban planning departments; smart city planners and engineers involved in research, consultancy, project management, funding, and distribution of services, products, technologies; city policy makers in government, EU projects, and development agencies; social entrepreneurs, activists, and social innovators.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue. DECONSTRUCTING smart city citizenship: Data ecosystems and democracy
- Abstract
- 1: We are already becoming tiny chips…
- 2: AI and data ecosystems
- 3: Digital rights in smart cities
- 4: Post-GDPR AI
- 5: Deconstructing the smart city citizenship: Book’s structure
- Chapter 1: UNPLUGGING smart city citizenship: Beyond the hyperconnected societies
- Abstract
- 1.1: Unplugging is a privilege in digitally divided and hyperconnected societies…
- 1.2: Digital natives in the smart city
- 1.3: Unplugging: 10 dimensions from the Social Innovation perspective
- 1.4: Conclusion
- Chapter 2: DECIPHERING smart city citizenship: Techno-politics of data and urban co-operative platforms
- Abstract
- 2.1: Smart city citizenship at stake in the European city-regional realm
- 2.2: The European smart city policy framework: H2020 Smart Cities and Communities lighthouse projects
- 2.3: Transitions from smart cities to experimental cities
- 2.4: (Smart) citizens are active decision-makers rather than passive data providers
- 2.5: Techno-politics and psychopolitics of data in smart cities
- 2.6: Experimental and pandemic post-COVID-19 citizenship as a transitional citizenship phase?
- 2.7: Conclusion
- Chapter 3: DEMOCRATISING smart city citizenship: Penta helix multi-stakeholders policy framework from the Social Innovation perspective
- Abstract
- 3.1: Democratising the technocratic smart city
- 3.2: Social Innovation perspective
- 3.3: Mapping out the Penta helix multi-stakeholder policy framework
- 3.4: Results: Beyond the PPP
- 3.5: Conclusion
- Chapter 4: REPLICATING smart city citizenship: City-to-city learning programme
- Abstract
- 4.1: Replication may not be happening
- 4.2: Benchmarking EC-H2020-SCC lighthouse projects’ replication strategies
- 4.3: Why might replication (not) be (mechanistically) happening among smart cities?
- 4.4: City-to-city learning programme in the EC-H2020-SCC Replicate project
- 4.5: Shaping replication plans
- 4.6: Conclusions
- Chapter 5: DEVOLVING smart city citizenship: Smart city-regions, data devolution, and technological sovereignty
- Abstract
- 5.1: Techno-politics of data
- 5.2: Problematising and politicising transitional smart city-regional scales through data devolution
- 5.3: Comparing four smart city-regions: Glasgow, Bristol, Bilbao, and Barcelona
- 5.4: Towards techno-politics of data devolution?
- 5.5: Conclusion: Is data devolution smart? Technological sovereignty
- Chapter 6: COMMONING smart city citizenship: Data Commons through (smart) citizens
- Abstract
- 6.1: From smart cities to experimental cities?
- 6.2: (Smart) citizens
- 6.3: Decision-makers
- 6.4: Deconstructing Barcelona’s (smart) citizens’ digital policy framework case study
- 6.5: Grassroots-led urban experimentation: Deciphering the Data Commons policy scheme
- 6.6: Conclusions
- Chapter 7: PROTECTING smart city citizenship: Citizens’ digital rights and AI-driven algorithmic disruption
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction: AI-driven algorithmic disruption
- 7.2: Context: Data ecosystems through data infrastructures and institutions in Europe
- 7.3: Barcelona protecting its citizens’ digital rights
- 7.4: Conclusion: Towards pan-European agencies?
- Epilogue. RESETTING smart city citizenship: Amidst the post-COVID-19 hyperconnected-virialised societies
- Abstract
- 1: The new normal: Pandemic citizenship
- 2: Digital, algorithmic, and liquid citizenship
- 3: Algorithmic nations: Technological sovereignty through platform and data co-operatives
- 4: Reset
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 23, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 268
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128153000
- eBook ISBN: 9780128153017
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Igor Calzada
Igor Calzada is a senior scientist at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), at the Digital Economy Unit and the Centre for Advanced Studies working at AI Watch and DigiTranScope. In addition, since 2012, he is senior researcher at the University of Oxford, Future of Cities and Urban Transformations ESRC programmes at COMPAS. His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in European (smart) cities and regions by paying special attention to the interplay of multistakeholders and the creation of data co-operatives and platform co-operatives schemes from the social innovation perspective. He is the Principal Investigator of H2020-SCC-Replicate Replication WP (www.replicate-project.eu/city2citylearning), European strategy for Urban Transformations ESRC programme, Smart City-Regions project (Marie Curie), and City-Regions Research Programme (www.cityregions.org; funded by Ikerbasque and RSA). He is fellow at the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA).
Over the last 20 years, he served as a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde (UK), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Aston University (UK), University of Malmö (Sweden), University of Iceland, University of Nevada (USA), University of Helsinki (Finland), and University of Mondragon (Spain). He regularly gives keynotes at conferences in China, Brazil, United States, Latin America, and Europe on smart cities research and policy. He serves as editor of several journals and is the author of almost 100 academic publications. He has an MBA and PhD in Business Administration. More info: www.igorcalzada.com/publications
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Senior Scientist at the European Commission DG JRC and at the University of Oxford.Read Smart City Citizenship on ScienceDirect