Provisional CFP, see below, proposals to be sent to [email protected] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Araya <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:22 PM Subject: Call for Contributions To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> *Technopolis: Smart Cities and Learning Ecologies in the Knowledge Economy* *Description* As cities grow in concentration and influence they are taking a central role in a global knowledge economy. By 2050, seventy percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Today there are already over 400 cities in the world with a population of more than one million people, and close to 20 cities with a population of more than 10 million. This remarkable urban growth has created vast policy and planning challenges related to infrastructure, governance and sustainability. With more political, economic, and technological importance than ever before, many leading cities have begun introducing “smart systems”. The concept of the smart city as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse in recent years. Despite its expanding influence, however, there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a “smart city”. One reason for this is that the term means different things to different disciplines. For some, the concept of the smart city refers to advances in sustainability and green technologies. While for others, it refers to the deployment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as next generation infrastructure. This edited volume focuses on a third strand in the discourse on smart cities, specifically public policy and social learning systems in a knowledge economy. What is the potential of smart cities to become platforms for bottom-up civic engagement in the context of next generation communication, data sharing, and application development? Through affordances in sensor technologies, data analysis, and urban design, new policies and planning have the potential to leverage newer and richer forms of democracy. Greenfield (2006), for example, proposes the idea of linking ubiquitous computing to “open public objects" that can facilitate new forms of citizen informatics. At the same time, smart technologies deployed in the design of smart cities should be evaluated in terms of the ways in which they enable (or curtail) new urban “literacies” and emergent social practices. What are the consequences of layering public spaces with computationally mediated technologies? Foucault’s notion of the “panopticon” (a metaphor for a “surveillance society”) illustrates the dangers inherent in *too much*governance. **** ** ** In conjunction with issues related to power grids, transportation networks and water distribution systems, there is a growing discussion on smart cities as ecosystems for cultural creativity and user-driven innovation. This edited volume is especially focused on exploring the potential of smart cities as “collaboratories” for democratization. This includes social practices and institutions that facilitate open innovation (Henry Chesbrough), commons-based peer production (Yochai Benkler), and collaborative consumption (Rachel Botsman). **** *Editor’s Biography* Daniel Araya is a Research Fellow in Learning and Innovation with the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). His research explores the confluence of public policy, technological innovation and learning. He is also a Research Associate with the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California and a Research Affiliate with the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto. His newest books include: *Higher Education in the Global Age* (2013, Routledge), *The New Development Paradigm* (2013, Peter Lang), and *Education in the Creative Economy* (2010, Peter Lang). ** ** *Contributors* ** ** *Carlo Ratti* An architect and engineer by training, Carlo Ratti practices in Italy and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the Senseable City Lab. He graduated from the Politecnico di Torino and the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, and later earned his MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge, UK. As well as being a regular contributor to the architecture magazine Domus and the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, he has written for the BBC, La Stampa, Scientific American and The New York Times. His work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Venice Biennale, the Design Museum Barcelona, the Science Museum in London, GAFTA in San Francisco and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.**** * * *Juval Portugali* Juval Portugali is Professor of Human Geography at Tel-Aviv University. He is the Head of the Environmental Simulation Laboratory (ESLab) and of the Environment, Society and Planning Graduate Program of Tel Aviv University. He received his BA degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, did his MA studies at the Technion Haifa, and received a London University PhD from The London School of Economics and Political sciences. His research integrates complexity and self-organization theories, environmental-spatial cognition, urban dynamics and planning in modern and ancient periods. His publications include: *The Construction of Cognitive Maps*, Kluwer, 1996 (Ed.); *Self-Organization and the city*, Springer, 2000; *Complex Artificial Environments. Springer Complexity Series*, 2005 (Ed.); *Complexity, Cognition and the City*, Springer, Complexity Series 2011; *Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age*, Springer, Complexity Series 2012 (Ed.).**** *Bill Cope *Bill Cope is a Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an Adjunct Professor in the Globalism Institute at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is also a director of Common Ground Publishing, developing and applying new publishing technologies. He is a former First Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in Australia. His current research interests include theories and practices of pedagogy, cultural and linguistic diversity, and new technologies of representation and communication. He is currently working on a project investigating the next generation of ‘semantic web’ technologies. *Mary Kalantzis* Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before this, she was Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. She has been a Board Member of Teaching Australia: The National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership, a Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, Vice President of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia and a member of the Australia Council’s Community Cultural Development Board.**** ** ** *Michelle Selinger * Dr Michelle Selinger is the Director of Education Practice for the Global Public Sector practice of the Cisco System’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG). Her focus is primarily on education transformation in all areas of education and skills development. Prior to joining IBSG, she was the education strategist for Cisco’s social investments in education, including the World Economic Forum’s Global Education Initiative. Michelle has extensive experience of working with governments and education bodies and institutions around the world in developing, developed and emerging economies on strategies for technology-enabled education reform. This includes a focus on the role of formal education systems in preparing the workforce of tomorrow. Michelle has an academic background and prior to joining Cisco, she was the director of the Centre for New Technologies Research in Education at the University of Warwick, UK, a research and multimedia centre dedicated to research and development in ICT. She has worked in traditional, distance, and online education in all sectors from primary schools to universities, as well as in vocational education and training. **** *Kevin Franklin *Kevin D. Franklin holds a Doctorate of Education in Organization and Leadership from the University of San Francisco. He is the former Executive Director of the University of California System-wide Humanities Research Institute, and Deputy Director of the University of California San Diego, Supercomputer Center (SDSC). He is now Executive Director of the University of Illinois Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and Senior Research Scientist for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Franklin is co-chair of the HASS Research Group for the Open Grid Forum (OGF), and a member of the Worldwide University Network Grid Advisory Board (WUN). He leads a number of international research activities including the Advanced Research and Technology Collaborative for the Americas (ARTCA) which he co-founded in 2007. He is a Special Advisor to the Costa Rica-United States Foundation (CRUSA) and the Centro Nacional de Alta Technologia. In 2010, HPCwire named Franklin one of the top 12 people to watch in Supercomputing.**** ** ** *Fernando Hernandez* Fernando Hernandez is Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (ICHASS) at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and Professor Emeritus at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). During his tenure at CSULA he served as Department Chair and Assistant Dean of School and Community Affairs for the College of Education. He is a founding member of the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas, the Costa Rica Center for High Technology (CeNAT) and the Costa Rica United States Foundation (CRUSA). ** *Kevin Stolarick* Kevin is the Research Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has held faculty positions at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and for over a decade worked with technology in the insurance industry as a manager of strategic projects. He has also worked as a researcher at the Heinz School's Software Center, one of the Sloan Industry research centers, and as a “special sworn researcher” the Census Data Research Center and a “deemed employee” at Statistics Canada.**** * * *Nigel Jacob* With an extensive background in collaborative, citizen-facing technology projects, Nigel Jacob co-founded the Office of New Urban Mechanics - a civic innovation incubator within Boston’s City Hall. He also serves as Mayor Menino's advisor on emerging technologies. In both of these roles, Nigel works to develop new models of innovation for cities in the 21st century. Prior to joining the City of Boston in 2006, Nigel worked for and launched a series of technology start-ups in the Boston area. In recognition of his work in Boston, Nigel was named a Public Official of the year in 2011 by Governing **** Magazine.**** ** ** *Michel Bauwens* Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with various researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary Technocalyps with Frank Theys, and co-edited the two-volume book on anthropology of digital society with Salvino Salvaggio. He is currently Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008, 2012). Michel is a member of the Board of the Union of International Associations (Brussels), advisor to Shareable magazine (San Francisco) and to Zumbara Time Bank (Istanbul). He functions as the Chair of the Technology/ICT working group, Hangwa Forum (Beijing, Sichuan), to develop economic policies for long-term resilience, including through distributed manufacturing. He writes editorials for Al Jazeera English and is listed at #82, on the Post-Carbon Institute (En)Rich list.**** ** ** *Tarun Wadwa* Tarun Wadwa is a research fellow with Singularity University, where he studies digital identification systems and their impact on public distribution, banking and governance. He is also senior research associate with the Think India Foundation, where he analyzes the issues and challenges that India is facing due to urbanization and a researcher with the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory think tank focused on the intersection of technology trends and geopolitics. He is also on the Transparency and Privacy, and Cybercrime/Malware Advisory Boards for the Lifeboat Foundation. He is a contributor to Forbes, Singularity Hub, and The Huffington Post. His work has been published in several major media outlets and he has given talks at major universities, conferences and related events. **** ** ** ** ** - - - - - - - - - - Daniel Araya Research Fellow Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.danielaraya.com -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/