Open Urban Ecosystem
Description
Cities are still known for and experienced through their architecture and people, but increasingly designed, managed and developed jointly with ICT solutions. Growing number of city dwellers are in touch with their cities mainly via digital services, which calls for new ways to support active citizenship and urban living through services, apps, interfaces and infrastructures. Additionally, during the last decade city service development has been moving from in-house IT teams to subcontracting from companies, leading too often in closed ecosystems that can result in vendor lock-in. In the recent years academics and activists have challenged closed systems together with local and global developers who would be willing to contribute to the city service development, if there only were open interfaces to work upon.
When aiming at an open city, how should urban ecosystems be designed, built and ran? Does the demand for openness set new kind of criteria for city services? What are the benefits and risks of the open way? What kind of new roles does this call for the cities, companies, developers and dwellers?
Session Host
Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts, Forum Virium Helsinki
Session Moderator
Pekka Koponen, Forum Virium Helsinki
Contributors
- Markku Raitio, IT Director, City of Helsinki
- Phil Ashlock, Presidential Innovation Fellow, US Government
- Ville Peltola, Director of Innovation, IBM Finland
- Otso Kivekäs, Urban activist, member of the Helsinki Public Works Committee
- Ilkka Lehtinen, Executive director, Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions (COSS)
Bios
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Details
Location: INSPIRE meeting room
Date & Time: Thur 20, 14-15.30
Target Group: group
Topic Stream: Open Cities
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