“The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrow’s hybrid digital–physical environment. Today's Facebook will be complemented by tomorrow's Placebook. Explosive innovation and adoption of computing, mobile devices, and rich sources of data are changing the cities in which we live, work, and play. It's about us, and how computing in the context of our cities is changing how we live. A digital landscape overlays our physical world and is expanding to offer ever-richer experiences that complement, and in emerging cases, replace the physical experience. In the meta–cities of the future, computing isn't just with us; it surrounds us, and it uses the context of our environment to empower us in more natural, yet powerful ways.”

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Data in the city

2. Agatha Christie:
Author of 81 books, her writing
career lasted from age 19 to 83,
died at age 85 in 1976.

3. Ian Lancashire:
“Vocabulary changes in Agatha
Christie's mysteries as an
indication of dementia"

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Changes in vocabulary in Agatha Christie's
novels from age 28 to 82

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(Big) data can hold information
that we didn’t know was there

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Big data analysis is concerned with
describing, not with understanding
behavioral phenomena

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Privacy Reciprocity Ubiquity?
Is our relationship with data
changing again?

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Privacy Reciprocity Ubiquity?
Is our relationship with data
changing again?

9. Data is the fuel of the future city.
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Data is.

11. Data is. No option to opt out.
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Good data
put to good use
Open, publicly available data can
drive trust and engagement and
will encourage both individuals
and businesses (small or large)
to innovate and shape our future
cities, workplaces and homes.

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Good data
put to good use
An example ...

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Decades ago the US Government
allowed public access to the
Global Positioning Service
Since that time, innovators have
utilized these resources to create
navigation systems, weather newscasts
and warning systems, location-based
applications, precision farming tools,
and more.

15. Consumers’ ability
to create digital
experiences will
continue to evolve

16. Consumers’ ability
to create digital
experiences will
continue to evolve

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A city built to
be hacked?

18. Open studio API

19. Open studio API

20. Open studio API

21. Hello world DIY:
A wearable
technology kit for
preteen girls

22. RFID sketches

23. Insert Azure Image
RFID sketches

24. RFID sketches

25. A new pay-phone
concept for
New York

26. Airwaves
connected
mask

27. Airwaves
connected
mask

28. Airwaves
connected
mask

29. Airwaves
connected
mask

30. Sensors are
everywhere.

31. Sensors are
everywhere.
Awesome or creepy?

32. Smart Citizens.

35. The vision “The modern city is becoming a
pointer system, the new URL, for
tomorrow’s hybrid digital–physical
environment. Today's Facebook will be
complemented by tomorrow's
Placebook. Explosive innovation and
adoption of computing, mobile
devices, and rich sources of data are
changing the cities in which we live,
work, and play. It's about us, and how
computing in the context of our cities
is changing how we live. A digital
landscape overlays our physical world
and is expanding to offer ever-richer
experiences that complement, and in
emerging cases, replace the physical
experience. In the meta–cities of the
future, computing isn't just with us; it
surrounds us, and it uses the context
of our environment to empower us in
more natural, yet powerful ways.”

36. The promise of the city
We understand that a city’s‘quality of living’ is usually articulated
through a collection of criteria and related performance indicators.
Safety
KPI: Average emergency response
time
Security
KPI: Number of capital crimes per year
Education
KPI: Illiteracy, average income
Health
KPI: Accessibility of basic healthcare,
epidemic data
Creativity, Innovation
KPI: Number of patents per capita
Food Safety
KPI: Number of critical incidents per
year
...Transportation
KPI: Congestion, accessibility of public
transportation

37. The promise of the city
City governments - to varying degrees - have always relied on
citizen contribution to fulfill this promise.Through our network in
Asia we discovered a collection of courageous and innovative
initiatives and behavioral trends implying that quality of live in the
city comes about not only through effort of the authorities, but
through the contribution of many...

38. EMERGENCY RESPONSE
BANGKOK, THAILAND:
Every night in the Thai capital, dozens
of private ambulance teams roam the
streets and alleys to collect the injured
and the dead.
The city has an average of four violent
crimes and three fatal road accidents
reported each hour of the night; there
is no shortage of work.
Thailand does not have a state-run
emergency system, and most hospitals
lack rescue vehicles and emergency
room resources. For the most part, the
ambulance teams are funded by
private foundations, based in
Bangkok’s Chinatown, which operate
on donations.
Picture and story from: http://
www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/
2012/05/2012528151535753486.html

39. PUBLIC SAFETY
SHANGHAI, CHINA:
Many drivers prepare for accidents by
installing after-sales video cameras
that record their driving and log key
telematics. These records provide an
element of comfort should a difficult
situation arise.
In more and more cases however, the
recorded data and video is leveraged in
case of other people’s street
accidents, fights and other types of
conflicts - as drivers seem to become
increasingly open to submitting their
recorded data as evidence that helps to
establish the truth ...

40. PUBLIC WELFARE
TAIPEI, TAIWAN:
A public-sponsored free meal project
for minors has benefitted 5,361
disadvantaged children and teenagers
so far.
Launched at the beginning of the year
by the city government in collaboration
with 1,930 convenience stores
operating in the metropolitan area, the
project provides after-school care, free
meals and shelter to minors in case of
emergency.
There are more than 760,000 children
in the city, while the number of social
workers and supporting resources are
limited.
According to the city government, of
the 5,361 cases referred to the city’s
social services department, half of the
children qualified for public assistance,
such as tuition waivers and free school
meals.

41. Review
EDUCATION
MANILA, PHILIPPINES:
Through youth awareness projects, the
group around Efren Peñaflorida has
been providing community service to
kids who are in need. The Kariton
Klasrum project has pushcarts that are
stocked with books, writing materials,
tables, and chairs, which bring
education to poor children. This mobile
classroom teaches the kids different
topics—from math to proper hygiene. It
also provides basic medical treatment
and food. The project hopes to convert
drop-outs and out-of-school youths,
and bring them back to mainstream
education. The Kariton Klasrum
services 800 kids, and around 85 to 90
percent of them have gone back to
school and some have also volunteered
for the group’s projects.
Picture and story from: http://
www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/283391/
lifestyle/people/efren-penaflorida-jr-quality-
education-one-pushcart-at-a-time

42. HEALTHCARE
MUMBAI, INDIA:
The vision of the ‘Jaipur Foot’
program is to ensure the physical,
economic and social rehabilitation of
the disabled, to enable them to regain
their mobility and dignity and
become self-respecting and
productive members of society, ie, in
short, restoring the glory of life.
To realize their vision the initiative
aims to provide prosthetics or
artificial limbs, calipers and other
physical aids and appliances, free of
charge, to as many disabled people
as possible through its centers,
outreach programs and rehabilitation
camps, both in India and abroad.
Picture and story from:
http://www.jaipurfoot.org

43. POLLUTION / FOOD SAFETY
AHMEDABAD, INDIA:
Sarvajal was founded in 2008 by the
Piramal Foundation to develop market-
based models for clean drinking water
at the base of the pyramid. Sarvajal
partners with local communities to
deploy micro-infrastructure drinking
water solutions. Local entrepreneurs
can set up water ATMs that are
connected to cloud to collect water
usage and ATM maintenance data.
Using mobile phones, they can access
and monitor the data, which empowers
them to constantly localize and
improve on their service offerings.
The micro-grid had been deployed in
pockets of rural India communities, and
now scaling to urban slums.
http://www.sarvajal.com/

44. SECURITY
CHINA:
China’s one-child policy has fueled
demand for children, and some
organizations estimate that as many as
200.000 children are snatched and
sold every year to desperate, often boy-
less, couples. Spurred by the
campaigning of parents the
government is starting to acknowledge
the problem more openly. Social media
may also have played a role. In recent
years, parents and activists have been
using websites and microblogs to share
information about cases and draw
public attention to child abduction.
Their efforts have put pressure on the
police, who have responded
(unusually, given their suspicion of
internet activism) by using the internet
themselves to contact the families of
victims. An account on Sina’s
microblogging platform Weibo run by
Baobei Huijia (Baby Come Home), an
activist network based in north-eastern
China, has nearly 140,000 followers.
http://www.baobeihuijia.com/

45. SECURITY
CHINA:
Sun Jifa raises his prosthetic forearms
in Yong Ji county, Jilin province, on
September 25, 2012.
Sun, a Chinese farmer who lost his
forearms in a dynamite fishing accident
32 years ago, could not afford to buy
prosthetic limbs. He spent two years
guiding his two nephews to build his
prosthesis from scrap metal, plastic
and rubber.
Over the years, Sun and his nephews
have built about 300 prosthetic limbs
for people in need, charging 3000 RMB
($476) each. (Reuters/Sheng Li)
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/scenes-
from-21st-century-china-1/100391/