Six weeks ago, I started a new weekly series answering the question how digitization can contribute to the development of better cities and their surroundings. Technology alone cannot reach this goal. Far-reaching social and economic reforms are needed, also to ensure that the benefits of digitization are shared by everyone.
Below you will find links to the articles published until now:
Part A: Digital technology as a challenge
1. Prologue to a new series: Better cities. The role of digital technologies
2. Scare-off the monster behind the curtain: Big Tech’s monopoly
3. Ten years of smart city technology marketing
4. Digital social innovation: For the social good (and a moonshot)
5. Collect meaningful data and stay away from dataism
6. The Boston Smart City Playbook
7. The Future of Urban Tech. A project of the NYC Cornell University
Next up:
Part B: Digital instruments and ethics
8. Digital technology and the urban sustainability agenda. A frame
9. Ethical principles for digital technology
10. Accessibility, software, digital infrastructure, and data. The quest for ethics
11. Ethical principles and artificial intelligence
12. Ethical principles and applications of digital technology
13. Amsterdam benchmarked
14. ‘Agenda stad’ and digital instruments
Part C: Applications
15. Artificial intelligence abused
16. Government: services and participation
17. Mobility
18. Circular economy: Construction
19. Circular economy: Waste
20. Resilience
21. Energy transition
22. Health
23. Smart cities from scratch
24. Epilogue
Links to the Dutch versions, you will find below:
