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SUMMARY:ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Katharine Willis on Whose Right to 
 the Smart City: Data and Citizenship
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DESCRIPTION:The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptiv
 e Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event\, the international summer 
 school Understanding Urban Transformations through Data. The aim of DACA
 S is to promote an interdisciplinary complexity science approach to the 
 study of urban data and the links between soft and hard systems as the b
 asis for the development of innovative technological applications. Katha
 rine Willis will give a talk as part of the summer school: \n\nWhose Rig
 ht to the Smart City: Data and Citizenship\n\nIn the context of global s
 mart city initiatives\, what are the potentials and challenges ICTs for 
 marginalised communities to appropriate and benefit from the impacts of 
 ‘smart city’ projects? This talk addresses the topic of ‘smart citizensh
 ip’: or how ICT led developments can involve not only engineers\, coders
  or systems scientists - but also civic hacktivists\, local associations
  and longstanding community groups. This looks at the role\, not of ‘big
  data’\, but of a process where interested publics are actively solicite
 d to co-create potentially transformative civic 'information’.\nSmart ci
 ty initiatives tend to leave little space for bottom-up or citizen-led e
 ngagements and in particular overlook the needs of disadvantaged and mar
 ginalised communities. This is set in a context where efficiency\, optim
 isation and convenience are fashionable buzz words\, but where citizens 
 are relegated to being seen as data sources moving across various databa
 ses. Such communities have neither the information nor the tools by whic
 h to participate in the decision-making process. Underlying this is a la
 ck of data about the urban poor\, and their access to water\, sanitation
 \, housing\, health and transport services. This talk will outline some 
 of the issues raised and discuss possible models and tools to support sm
 art citizenship within marginalised communities\, drawing on work from B
 razil\, India and UK.\nThis work is part of an AHRC International Resear
 ch Network: Whose right to the Smart City\; a UK/Brazil/India collaborat
 ion that draws on knowledge and perspectives from marginalised city cont
 exts’. Network Partners are Ava Fatah (UCL) Satyarupa Shekhar (CAG India
 ) and Ana Paula Baltazar (UFMG\, Brazil).\n\nwhosesmartcity.net\n\n@whos
 esmartcity\n\nKatharine Willis \n\nWillis is Associate Professor (Reader
 ) in digital environments in the School of Art\, Design and Architecture
  at Plymouth University\, UK. Her research investigates the effects and 
 implications of digital networks on the experience and design of urban s
 pace and place. She is PI on the Digital Neighbourhoods research project
  (2013-2017) that investigates the impact of superfast broadband on soci
 al and spatial inclusion on rural communities in South West UK and leads
  the AHRC International Research Network: Whose right to the Smart City 
 (2016-2018).\n\nRecent books include: Digital and Smart Cities (with Ale
 x Aurigi\, 2017 forthcoming Routledge)\, Netspaces: Space and Place in a
  Networked Wold (Routledge 216)\, Locative Media: Multidisciplinary Pers
 pectives on Media and Locality (co-edited\, Transcript Press 2013) and ‘
 Shared Encounters’ (co-edited\, Springer 2010). Katharine Willis trained
  as an Architect with a Masters in Architecture from the Bartlett\, Univ
 ersity College London\, and a PHD from the Bauhaus University of Weimar\
 , Germany where she was an EU Marie Curie Fellow on the MEDIACITY resear
 ch project.\n\nPlaces are limited and booking well in advance is advised
 : http://goo.gl/5NrD6U
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre C\, Simon Building\, Manchester
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