Smart cities
Current Smart Cities research and development is focused on the use of hyperconnected field sensors to assess a community's health and validate the performance of initiatives. While this is a good practice, it often leaves out a crucial element of what truly makes up a smart city, its people.
Where to Start with Smart Cities
Because there are many ways to approach being a smart city, this has created significant market confusion and multiple overlapping approaches to becoming a smart city. With this in mind, I collaborated with Chelsea Collier, the Founder of Digi.City and another Eisenhower Fellow, to create a free smart cities playbook for government officials. Click on the cover below to register and download your free copy.
Crowdsourcing Smart Cities
People are the smartest aspect of any city and are capable of far more than simply living in it. The best way to harness the power of people is to use technologies and methods to crowdsource insights from them.
Here are a few things people can do within a structured crowdsourced process:
Identify and rank city issues
Identify and rank potential city solutions
Microtasking work on issues and/or solutions
Fund solutions
Implement solutions
Validate solutions
When separate elements are combined they form a crowdsourced business process.
The combination of multiple crowdsourced business processes forms a closed knowledge base.
The intelligent linkage of closed knowledge bases, accomplish through structured data standards, creates an open knowledge repository that would allow other cities to learn from one another by pooling collective intelligence from all city layers.
Cover Photo Credit: Kim Seng