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SMART CITIES FOR A SMART REGION 3 October 2018 Paul Hoffman paul@wcedp.co.za GROWTH SECTORS IN THE GARDEN ROUTE Tourism & Oil & Gas (green fuels), Creative industry Agri-processing Waste management energy and water. Timber

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SMART CITIES FOR A SMART REGION

3 October 2018

Paul Hoffman paul@wcedp.co.za

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GROWTH SECTORS IN THE GARDEN ROUTE

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Tourism & Creative industry Oil & Gas (green fuels), Agri-processing Timber Industry Waste management energy and water. Integrated transport and infrastructure ICT and Smart Cities

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PATHWAYS TO A SMART REGION

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  • Cities are complex, not complicated:

– Complicated problem is unpacked, solved in pieces and aggregated for a broad systems engineering solution – Complex problems change when you engage with them…

  • Pathways to a Smart Region

– Open data vs locked-in – Political leadership vs technical leadership – Incubators, labs and innovative procurement – Responsive and adaptive government – Act on inequality risks

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PATHWAYS TO A SMART REGION

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  • Many interests converge

– Innovation, entrepreneurship and commercial – Government solution finding – greater effectiveness in state services

  • Improve local government, increase trust

– Citizen-centric - Social audits – Media changes

  • Open Data Forum

– Business cluster – unblock routes from data to commercialisation – Democracy cluster – fostering transparency, trust and responsiveness – Academic cluster – research, own data portals and skills development – Digital system cluster – improving data systems – wifi, broadband etc.

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WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING?

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WHO SHOULD BE ON YOUR TEAM

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Paul Hoffman paul@wcedp.co.za

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Understanding the Smart City landscape: evolution of a potentially powerful idea

Nancy Odendaal University of Cape Town BUILDING SMART CITIES IN A SMART REGION Plettenberg Bay, October 2018

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Debunking the myth

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Beyond technological determinism

  • Objectification of

technology not helpful

  • Technology does not

constrain or liberate by itself, but

  • Is enrolled into socio-

technical processes that are highly contextual

  • One technology does not

simply ‘replace’ others but co-exists with ‘analog’ and digital strategies

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Emancipatory potential of technology

  • Economic

empowerment in Africa

  • Appropriation by

marginalised groups

  • New spatial

configurations that interface with informality

  • Survival strategies in

conflict situations

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Livelihoods and technology

  • The presence of

technology does not imply appropriation

  • Localised use can lead

to innovation, but relates to livelihoods

  • The relationship

between livelihoods and technology is deeply contextual

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So what is a smart city / region?

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This is not it…

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Smart city is not ‘new’

Ubiquitous City Smart city Sentient city Virtual city

Wired City City of Bits Informational city Telecity

Smart urbanism Digital city (late 1990s – early 2000s)

Willis & Aurigi, 2018

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Definitions

  • Normally the parameters

are defined by how the domain of computing spills

  • ut into society and

everyday life

  • No clear definition
  • Definitions superseded by

new wave of technology and what the implications for cities are

  • Underpinning is changing

role of digital and technology in society and in space

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Technology-driven Smart City v. 02

  • Internet of things + Big

data = emphasis on data

  • Business agendas versus

the public interest

  • Broadened access to

technology choices

  • Focus on technology as

leader in addressing normative concerns (climate change for e.g.)

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An uncertain future…

  • Global climate change

impacts

  • Political mavericks
  • Fake news
  • Migration and flight
  • Surveillance
  • Securitization
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Technologies of control

  • Technologies of

governance that range from overt force to more insidious forms of surveillance

  • The desire to ‘start
  • ver’ elsewhere
  • The ‘control room’

and the need for data integration

  • Smart infrastructure
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The ‘City in a Box’

  • Packaged solutions
  • The template city
  • The self-regulating

integrated city

  • Integrated solutions -

plug-in places

  • In the African context:

the orderly, connected and clean city

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Versus the ‘real’ city

  • Contingency
  • Informality
  • Emergence
  • Weak state
  • Uneven technological

infrastructure

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Tensions

  • The political project of

'masking'

  • Digital (political) distractions
  • Limited contextual

engagement

  • Big data - big delivery
  • Little space for interrogating

marginal spaces

  • Rise in digitally enabled

activism

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Questions?

Nancy.Odendaal@uct.ac.za