Yesterday, Rob Kitchin presented a paper – Code Acts in Code/Space: Making Sense of Software Mediated Education – at Code Acts in Education, an ESRC seminar at the University of Stirling. The programme is at http://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/seminars/ Slides from the talk are below. The event was very thought provoking and if you’re interested in the topic then there are five more seminars to follow. Visit the website for details and how to register.
Rob Kitchin has just submitted the final draft of a new book — The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences — to Sage and it’s moved into production. The chapter titles are below and the book will be published later in the year.
Preface
1. Conceptualising data
2. Small data, data infrastructures and data brokers
3. Open and linked data
4. Big data
5. Enablers and sources of big data
6. Data analytics
7. The governmental and business rationale for big data
8. The reframing of science, social science and humanities research
9. Technical and organisational issues
10. Ethical, political, social and legal concerns
11. Making sense of the data revolution
References
Principal Investigator on the Programmable City project, Professor Rob Kitchin, will deliver a lecture titled ‘The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism’ Friday February 28 in Oxford, as a part of the OII Bellwether Lectures.
Abstract
‘Smart cities’ is a term that has gained traction in academia, business and government to describe cities that, on the one hand, are increasingly composed of and monitored by pervasive and ubiquitous computing and, on the other, whose economy and governance is being driven by innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, enacted by smart people. This paper focuses on the former and, drawing on a number of examples, details how cities are being instrumented with digital devices and infrastructure that produce ‘big data’. Such data, smart city advocates argue enables real-time analysis of city life, new modes of urban governance, and provides the raw material for envisioning and enacting more efficient, sustainable, competitive, productive, open and transparent cities. The final section of the paper provides a critical reflection on the implications of big data and smart urbanism, examining five emerging concerns: the politics of big urban data, technocratic governance and city development, corporatisation of city governance and technological lock-ins, buggy, brittle and hackable cities, and the panoptic city.
Details
Friday 28 February 2014 17:00 – 18:30
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU
Please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)1865 287210.
The Programmable City Project is happy to welcome Dr David Prendergastwho will discuss Sustainable Connected Cities and the London Living Labs Project.
Abstract: Cities offer many opportunities to innovate with technologies, from the infrastructures that underlie the sewers, to computing in the cloud. How though can we integrate the technological, economic and social needs of cities in ways that are sustainable and human-centred? How do we inform, develop and evaluate systems and services that enhance the quality of city life for diverse publics? This talk discusses the approach taken by the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities and provides an overview of key projects including the ambitious London Living Labs programme conducted in association with the UK Future Cities Catapult.
Bio: Dr David Prendergast is a social anthropologist and a Principal Investigator in the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities with Imperial College and University College London. He also holds the position of Visiting Professor of Healthcare Innovation at Trinity College Dublin. His research over the last fifteen years has focused on later life-course transitions and he has authored a number of books and articles on ageing, health, technology and social relationships. During his career David has been involved in several major research projects including: a multi-year ethnography of intergenerational relationships and family change in South Korea; the provision of paid home care services in Ireland; a three year ESRC study into death, dying and bereavement in England and Scotland; and Intel’s Global Ageing Project which explored the expectations and experiences of growing older around the world. After receiving his PhD from Cambridge University, Dr Prendergast held research posts at the University of Sheffield, and Trinity College Dublin.
The Silicon Republic is “Ireland’s No 1 resource for technology news”. Along with delivering the news about technology innovation in Ireland they orchestrate fantastic industry events to amplify emerging discussions of importance with the irish indigenous and foreign technology sectors. Tracey P. Lauriault has attended three of their events to date, and participated in their latest, the Irish Data Forum. Their events feature a cross section of industry, academic and public sector experts to discuss trends, issues and innovations. The discussions are frank and audience participation is skillfully moderated by Ann O’Dea CEO, Editor-at-large of the paper.
The Irish Data Forum Putting “I” back in “IT” discussed cloud, big data, data analytics, open data, data science and public data. It also examined the data revolution and how Ireland can be at its heart.
