Post on 16-Apr-2017
Principles:
Best producer is the user
(S)he can learn to make anything
Sharing is key to innovation
Making is crucial to understand & act in the world
City Service Development Kit
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Open, interoperable service interfaces. Processes, guidelines and usability standards. Sharing, re-using and transferring city solutions across cities. Not inventing from the scratch, but mapping, using & developing global best practices
ExampleSchools:
1. Is there a safe bicycle lane towards them?
2. How about the air quality?3. Any sports field around them?4. How many schools does this
neigborhood need?5. How about scores?
• Interview with alderman
• Contact details on web
• Three files from the Department of
Education
• One open data website
• Two spreadsheets
• Several PDF’s
Data Sources
Widely varying identicications
Statistics Office
Education Department
Public Transport Service
Budget Office
Emergency Services
Administration nr.
Coordinates
Various ID’s
Address & timetables
Budget ID
• RT mobility data
• BAG viewer
• Parking API
• Orphaned Bikes
• Tourism in Amsterdam
• Emergency services
• City Dashboard
Cases
Design Rules for Smarter Cities• Your citizens know more than you. • Prototype early and fast, engage the stakeholders, iterate quickly and be prepared
to start all over.• Embrace self-organisation and civic initiative, but help to make the results
sustainable and scalable.• Know what you are talking about in the face of technology. Never rely on
consultants that will sell you more consultancy, not solutions.• Have binding decisions made at the lowest level possible and actively preach self-
governance.• Favour loosely coupled, smaller systems over monoliths and mastodons, and use
peer-defined standards to glue together the parts. Small systems tend to fail sometimes; large systems fail for sure.
• To raise and deserve trust, build systems based on data reciprocity and transparency.
• Reuse existing parts and design your additions for reuse, adding to the public domain and thereby strengthening its capacity to act and learn.
http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities
Pointers• Design Rules for Smarter Cities
http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities
• Smart Citizens Publicationhttp://futureeverything.org/publications/smart-citizens/
• CitySDK Mobility APIhttp://citysdk.waag.org/api
• Open Design Nowhttp://opendesignnow.org/
• Smart Citizen Kithttp://www.smartcitizen.me/
• Apps for Europe - Turning Data into Businesshttp://www.appsforeurope.eu/