Open Smart Cities

Benjamin Cave
Trainer
10/30/15

@cave_ben

Aim
To equip participants to define open cities and
their key building blocks

Learning Objectives
Define an open smart city
Classify important components of an open smart
city
List 3 building blocks of open smart cities
Apply open city principles to solve city
challenges

Is this city smart?

Image credit: Diego Torres

Silvestre

Part 1: Definitions

Exercise

Define a Smart
City

Definition of Smart City

(1)
A smart city is one that
has digital technology
embedded across all
city functions

Definition of Smart City

(2)
A smart city brings together
technology, government and
society to enable the following
characteristics:
smart cities, a smart economy,
smart mobility, a smart
environment, smart people,
smart living, smart governance

Definition of Smart City

(3)
a Smart City should
enable every citizen to
engage with all the
services on offer, public
as well as private, in a
way best suited to his
or her needs

Definition of Smart City

(4)
A smart city is an open
city that puts people and
openness at the heart of its
design and operation

Exercis
e
What is the most
important thing to
making a city
smarter?

What systems keep this

running?

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Smart City Systems

People
Apps
Data
Technology
Physical

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Exercise
What role does data
serve in the
infrastructure of a
city?

Data: The Universal

Translator

Part 2: Building
Blocks

Open City Building

Blocks
Network
Thinking
Smart
Technologies
Data
Infrastructure

Data Infrastructure

Understand who owns the data

we need
What
steps would you
Secure agreements on
take
to build your
ownership & access
citys
Enabledata
simple and reliable
access
infrastructure?
Support growth and linkages

Smart Technologies

Support community innovation

Avoid large-scale solutions
Develop awareness of what
works best
Support growth and linkages

Transport
1
1 Tube
Tube network
network
13
13 Bus
Bus Companies
Companies with
with 100s
100s of
of routes
routes
11
11 Train
Train companies
companies connecting
connecting urban
urban
areas
areas
1
1 integrated
integrated payment
payment system
system

Making transport smart with

data
Wanted 1 per user

Made the data free (no cost)

Network
Thinking
How might
you decide
on the route
of a new
cycle path?

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Desire Lines
Desire
offer a
Poeticslines
of Space
way to make
design
A pathfollow
that isnt
human
decisiondesigned
but rather
making
rather than
is worn casually
anticipate
it
away by people
finding the shortest
distance between
two points

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Congress

Discussion
Can you think of a
time when your
desire line
through a city
differed from the
planned routes?

Network Thinking
Smart cities enable
people to interact they
way they want to.
Successful services enhance this
choice by supporting different
behaviors

Building open cities

Infrastructure
Technologies
Networks

Part 3: Problem
Solving

Exercise

Solving city
challenges through
open city principles

Challenge
1
City planners are
trying to decide on
the route for a new
cycle path.

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Challenge
2
The mayor is trying
to reduce stress on
the citys power grid

Image 1 credit: Denver Post

Challenge
3
Commuters are
trying to avoid
overcrowded trains

Image 1 credit: Daily Telegrap

Thank You

Benjamin Cave
Trainer
10/30/15

@cave_ben