[P2P-F] Fwd: Call for Contributions for Technopolis: Smart Cities bk

Tue Mar 5 06:14:10 CET 2013

Provisional CFP, see below, proposals to be sent to
daniel.araya at singularityu.org

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From: Daniel Araya <daniel.araya at singularityu.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Subject: Call for Contributions
To: Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>

*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.
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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).

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*Contributors*

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*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.****

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*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.****

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*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.

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*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.****

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*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).

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*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.****

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*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.****

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*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.****

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*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.  ****

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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

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