Collective Intelligence in Smart Cities: A Bottom-Up Approach
Channel: BSI-UTFPR
Date: 19/07/2019

University of California, Berkeley
June 24, 2019

Speakers:
Alexandre Graeml, Federal University of Technology (UTFPR), Brazil
Francesco Goisis, University of Milan, Italy

The information and communication technologies (ICTs) of the 21st century allow people to connect and collaborate in unprecedented ways. This is changing the relationship between the citizens and the cities.

In the past, caring for the city was delegated to local administrations and the solution of city's problems was considered as a service to be provided by the municipality. However, that model has long proven not to be able to deal with the complexity of city issues. People started perceiving that, if they wish to live in nice urban environments, they have to take more responsibility. ICTs allow citizens that want to have an active role in shaping their cities, according to their needs and wishes, to coordinate with others that have similar intents.

In this seminar, we will examine how smarter and technologically empowered citizens can contribute to designing smart cities, giving some examples of how technology and law can contribute to the new approach and the challenges for this to happen more often in the future.