Urban Labs 09 full steam ahead: techno-social projects are go.......
The Urban LabsUrban Labs ented this year and the force with which the ultra-motivated participants went at them. Amid the múltiple tables in Creation Place here at CitiLab flowed the ideas with agility and the work-groups meeting here have wasted no time in setting out their and exchanging opinions. See the photos Urban Labs on Flickr.
It was an intense evening which kicked off with an interesting conference from Dave Harte
Dave Harte, an expert in social technology, introduced us to the development of digital cities as a result of his own experience with the Digital Birmingham project. Harte focussed his approach on key aspects such as access to data generated by the city on behalf of its citizens, the factors for a digital city and the economic opportunities that geeks and hackers can create.
The creation in record time of an""alternative web " to the City Council of Birmingham, ord de la " web alternativa "del Ayuntamiento de Birmingham, BCC DIY (Do it Yourself) by the "tech" community in the city is a prime example. It is worth remembering that the official website costed around 2.8m pounds.
Further on you can see the presentation by Dave Harte
Citilab Presentation October 2009 - Digital Cities
Today was the turn from Juan Freire, an explorer in the field of innovation and strategy in digital culture, who will highlight the la estratégia en cultura digital, nos presentará el proyecto Ciudad percibida project, who will continue to take a close look at the subject of building cities digitally and the role of the citizenns in its management and design. Freire is accompanied by Paco González and José Luís de Vicente in this work-group who argue for a new model for urbanism emerging in the city, propelled by the process of generation and exchange of proactive information between people and institutions.
