Provisional CFP, see below, proposals to be sent to <a href="mailto:daniel.araya@singularityu.org">daniel.araya@singularityu.org</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Araya</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.araya@singularityu.org">daniel.araya@singularityu.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:22 PM<br>Subject: Call for Contributions<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>><br><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-size:16pt">Technopolis: Smart Cities and Learning Ecologies in the Knowledge
Economy<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(20,20,19)">Description<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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”.</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
<span style>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.</span></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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 <i>too much</i> governance. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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). <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Editor’s Biography<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style>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: <i>Higher Education in the Global Age</i> (2013, Routledge), <i>The New Development Paradigm</i> (2013, Peter Lang), and <i>Education in the Creative Economy</i> (2010, Peter Lang).</span></p>
<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:13pt">Contributors<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">
<b>Carlo Ratti<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Juval Portugali<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">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: <i>The Construction of Cognitive Maps</i>, Kluwer, 1996 (Ed.); <i>Self-Organization and the city</i>,
Springer, 2000; <i>Complex Artificial
Environments. Springer Complexity Series</i>, 2005 (Ed.); <i>Complexity, Cognition and the City</i>, Springer, Complexity Series
2011; <i>Complexity Theories of Cities Have
Come of Age</i>, Springer, Complexity Series 2012 (Ed.).<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style>Bill Cope<br>
</span></b><span style>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.<br>
<br>
</span><b>Mary
Kalantzis<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Michelle Selinger <u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<span> </span>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.<br>
<br>
<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Kevin Franklin<br>
</b>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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Fernando Hernandez</b><span style><br>
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).<br>
<br>
</span><b><u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Kevin Stolarick<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Kevin is the
Research Director at the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u> <u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Nigel Jacob<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>Prior to joining the City
of Boston in 2006, Nigel worked for and launched a series of technology
start-ups in the Boston area.<span> </span>In
recognition of his work in Boston, Nigel was named a Public Official of the
year in 2011 by Governing <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Magazine.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Michel Bauwens<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Tarun Wadwa<u></u><u></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<span> </span>His work has been published in several major
media outlets and he has given talks at major universities, conferences and
related events.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><a href="http://www.danielaraya.com" target="_blank">www.danielaraya.com</a></div>
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