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| #Why Smart City London should be a Networked City: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible | #Why Smart City London should be a Networked City: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible | ||
| - | *Draft blog post for Connecting Londoners by David Wilcox* | + | City Hall have launched a "listening exercise" to help the Chief Digital Officer Theo Blackwell and his Board fulfil the Mayor's aim to make London the world's leading Smart City. |
| - | City Hall have launched a "listening exercise" to help the Chief Digital Officer Theo Blackwell and his Board fulfil the Mayor's aim to make London the world's leading Smart City. Currently [Bristol is judged to be in the lead](http://www.cityam.com/274393/londons-no-longer-uks-top-smart-city-bristol-overtakes). | + | Currently [Bristol is judged to be in the lead](http://www.huawei.com/uk/press-events/news/uk/2017/huawei-uk-smart-cities-index) with Manchester and Birmingham third and fourth. |
| - | There are examples in their [blog post on Medium](https://medium.com/@SmartLondon/a-smarter-london-together-listening-exercise-for-a-new-smart-london-plan-51be7d9ca203) of "how data and smart initiatives can help citizens". I hope Smart City plans may also help our communities and social structure, about which more later. | + | > The Huawei UK Smart Cities Index rankings were calculated by an in-depth analysis of ten criteria within the cities’ strategy and execution, covering areas such as their vision, digital innovation, implementation record, environmental impact and community reach. |
| - | The blog post suggests we could get: | + | There are examples in Theo Blackwell's [blog post on Medium](https://medium.com/@SmartLondon/a-smarter-london-together-listening-exercise-for-a-new-smart-london-plan-51be7d9ca203) of "how data and smart initiatives can help citizens". I hope Smart City plans may also help our communities and social structure, about which more later. |
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| + | Update: Now spotted that Smart London have also published on Medium: | ||
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| + | * [How our plans for Smart London compare to other world cities](https://medium.com/@SmartLondon/the-vision-for-smart-london-and-how-it-compares-to-other-world-cities-8c5bbde903b5) | ||
| + | * [Mi-Wifi digital inclusion pilot in Lewisham](https://medium.com/@SmartLondon/the-vision-for-smart-london-and-how-it-compares-to-other-world-cities-8c5bbde903b5) | ||
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| + | The listening exercise blog post suggests we could get: | ||
| **Improved public services** — City budgeting focused on citizen outcomes, not departmental spending; Bringing health and social care data together for targeted care; live waste data to improve recycling rates and collection frequency; better/digitised public services lowering costs. | **Improved public services** — City budgeting focused on citizen outcomes, not departmental spending; Bringing health and social care data together for targeted care; live waste data to improve recycling rates and collection frequency; better/digitised public services lowering costs. | ||
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| > What we have learned - contrary to many expectations 30 or 40 years ago - is that most of the dynamic of digital and indeed the knowledge economy, through most societies, is that it widens disparity, it widens inequalities. It creates fantastic pockets and hubs of amazing activity in London or Barcelona or Berlin or Copenhagen but actually the distance in terms of life opportunity, income and so on tends to widen, so it is really important that we focus again and again on the social dimension and don’t just celebrate the digital. | > What we have learned - contrary to many expectations 30 or 40 years ago - is that most of the dynamic of digital and indeed the knowledge economy, through most societies, is that it widens disparity, it widens inequalities. It creates fantastic pockets and hubs of amazing activity in London or Barcelona or Berlin or Copenhagen but actually the distance in terms of life opportunity, income and so on tends to widen, so it is really important that we focus again and again on the social dimension and don’t just celebrate the digital. | ||
| - | At the NESTA event we heard about the [Barcelona Digital City Plan](http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en). The plan covers: | + | At the NESTA event we heard about the [Barcelona Digital City Plan](http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/digital/en). The plan covers: |
| **A City in Common** Technology for social change and public sector innovation | **A City in Common** Technology for social change and public sector innovation | ||
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| In 2015 NESTA published a report [Rethinking Smart Cities from the ground up](https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/rethinking_smart_cities_from_the_ground_up_2015.pdf) that argued for a people-centred approach to smart cities: | In 2015 NESTA published a report [Rethinking Smart Cities from the ground up](https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/rethinking_smart_cities_from_the_ground_up_2015.pdf) that argued for a people-centred approach to smart cities: | ||
| - | " To have a chance of helping cities address some of the tough problems they face, we argue that further investment and support are needed to generate evidence about which approaches to using collaborative technologies are most effective. Cities then need to share these lessons so that other cities can adopt and build on the most successful approaches. In the introduction of this report we set out five main recommendations on how cities can better achieve this. | + | " To have a chance of helping cities address some of the tough problems they face, we argue that further investment and support are needed to generate evidence about which approaches to using collaborative technologies are most effective. Cities then need to share these lessons so that other cities can adopt and build on the most successful approaches. In the introduction of this report we set out five main recommendations on how cities can better achieve this. |
| * Set up a civic innovation lab to drive innovation in collaborative technologies. | * Set up a civic innovation lab to drive innovation in collaborative technologies. | ||
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| Together with the Our Way Ahead network of networks we've made the case for a networked approach, not just a central resource, and for investing in people to achieve that. | Together with the Our Way Ahead network of networks we've made the case for a networked approach, not just a central resource, and for investing in people to achieve that. | ||
| + | The priority functions for the Hub are now agreed as data, networks and networking, and voice/influencing. The Smart City team have invited the advisory group to the Hub - of which I have been a member - to make an input to plans. | ||
| - | + | It may be that issues like social isolation, and living well in in digital age, fall outside plans for a Smarter City. If so, I think that makes it all the more important for Hub for London to collaborate to address these issues. | |
| - | The priority functions for the Hub are now agreed as data, networks and networking, and voice/influencing. The Smart City team have invited the advisory group to the Hub - of which I have been a member - to make an input to plans. I hope we can collaborate to do that. | + | |
| ###Networked City and Hub for London | ###Networked City and Hub for London | ||
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| * [Update on the Smart London plan 2016](https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/gla_smartlondon_report_web_3.pdf) | * [Update on the Smart London plan 2016](https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/gla_smartlondon_report_web_3.pdf) | ||
| * [Global review of smart city strategies](http://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/project/global-review-smart-city-strategies/) | * [Global review of smart city strategies](http://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/project/global-review-smart-city-strategies/) | ||
| - | * [Rethinking Smart Cities from the ground up - NESTA report](https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/rethinking_smart_cities_from_the_ground_up_2015.pdf) | + | * [Rethinking Smart Cities from the ground up - NESTA report](https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/rethinking_smart_cities_from_the_ground_up_2015.pdf) |
| * [Building the Networked City From the Ground Up With Citizens - Shareable blog post](https://www.shareable.net/blog/building-the-networked-city-from-the-ground-up-with-citizens) | * [Building the Networked City From the Ground Up With Citizens - Shareable blog post](https://www.shareable.net/blog/building-the-networked-city-from-the-ground-up-with-citizens) | ||
| * [Nominet list of Smart City Projects](https://www.nominet.uk/list-smart-city-projects/) | * [Nominet list of Smart City Projects](https://www.nominet.uk/list-smart-city-projects/) | ||
| * [A Smarter City - competition with City of London Corporation](https://www.asmartercity.london) | * [A Smarter City - competition with City of London Corporation](https://www.asmartercity.london) | ||
| - | * [London’s no longer the UK’s top smart city as Bristol overtakes - City A.M October 2017](http://www.cityam.com/274393/londons-no-longer-uks-top-smart-city-bristol-overtakes) | + | * [Bristol overtakes London as UK’s smartest city - Huawei Smart Cities Index |
| + | ](http://www.huawei.com/uk/press-events/news/uk/2017/huawei-uk-smart-cities-index) | ||
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