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The Structure of Civic Technologies and their Impacts on Quality ofLife and Social Equity
Bev Wilson, PhD, AICPAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Urban and Regional Planning
Sustainable Urban Systems ConferenceUniversity of Texas at AustinAugust 22, 2019
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Open Data & Civic Technology
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• Sensors that detect and collect– Hardware and software
applications– Ubiquitous sensing
• Networks for transmitting and sharing data– Open data movement – Realtime monitoring– Internet of Things (IoT)
• People? – Citizens– Neighborhoods– Public officials
Source: Postscapes (https://www.postscapes.com/anatomy‐of‐a‐smart‐city)
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Source: Julie Garrigues (2017)
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Participation
“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of the functions performed by private citizens.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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Participation
• Involving more people leads to better ideas—there are more brains at work
• Involving key actors at the outset makes it more likely that the plan, policy, or design will be used
• Involving variety of stakeholders reduces likelihood of conflict and resistance later
• Participation cultivates the leadership and initiative that we need for a functional democracy—it creates citizens
Lewis D. Hopkins
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311 Calls in NYC
Complaint calls September 8 to September 15, 2010 by time of day.Source: Steven Johnson, Wired Magazine.
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So, what is civic technology?█
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Source: mySociety, The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015
“‘Civic technologies’ are the tools and processes we create to improve public life. To help each other. To make our governments and our communities safe, joyful, equitable places to live out our lives.” (McCann 2015, p. 47)
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Source: The Economist
Source: Colin Shole
Source: chicagoheatvulnerability.org
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Student‐led geodesign process in Viola, IL
Weekly Chi Hack Night meeting
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“…build with, not for…”
Source: McCann, L. (2015). Experimental modes of civic engagement in civic tech. Chicago, IL: Smart Chicago Collaborative.
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“…not all problems have a technical solution.”
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Who are the key actors and what are the common modes? █
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Civic Hackers
Source: Civic Data Alliance, Louisville
Source: Rohan Mathur (austinaffordablehousing.com)
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Source: American Printing House for the Blindhttps://tech.aph.org/neo_info.htm
Non-Profit Organizations
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Partnerships
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Source: DataUSAhttps://datausa.io/profile/geo/champaign‐il
Partnerships
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Source: City of Chicagohttps://chicago.opengrid.io/opengrid
City Government
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Corporations
Source: ZenCityhttps://zencity.io
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Corporations
Source: January Advisorshttps://www.januaryadvisors.com
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B Corporations
Over 2,600 companies in 60 countries
Legally required to “consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment.”
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B Corporations
Source: Aunt Berthahttps://www.auntbertha.com
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B Corporations
Source: Azaveahttps://www.azavea.com
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Why is open data important?█
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Source: Open Cityhttp://opencityapps.org
If the collected data are open, a variety of stakeholders and users can leverage this information for purposes that support and facilitate more inclusive and effective planning (Batty, 2013)
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Conceptual Scaffolding
Information can serve as a centerpiece for creating shared meaning, building social relationships, and cultivating network power—defined as “a shared ability of linked agents to alter their environment in ways advantageous to these agents individually and collectively” (Booher & Innes 2002, p. 225).
• See also participatory GIS (Elwood, 2006), web‐enabled participation (Sieber et al., 2016) and citizen science literature (Devisch & Veestraeten, 2013)
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Source: Attard, J., Orlandi, F., Scerri, S., & Auer, S. (2015). A systematic review of open government data initiatives. Government Information Quarterly, 32(4), 399‐418.
“…although data is available in amachine readable format, such data is not really useful unless it is easily understandable” (Attard et al., 2015)
How to activate open data so that their purported benefits can be realized?
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Source: Wilson, B., & Chakraborty, A. Planning Smart(er) Cities: The Promise of Civic Technology. (2019). Journal of Urban Technology, Forthcoming.
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What currently works?█
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Civic Hackers as Advocates
• Increasing interest in technology, particularly among youth
• “Oftentimes, civic technology helps to fill the gap when there is a need, but not a business case [paying customer].” (Participant #15)
• Mature civic hacking communities can take on an advocacy role and help drive governance of open data initiatives
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Open Data By Default
• Some cities have adopted an official policy on open data
• Over 130 local governments in the U.S. since 2009
• Catalyst is often executive order from the mayor (e.g., Louisville, Buffalo, Chicago, Philadelphia)
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Growth of Open Data
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Best Practices
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What needs work?█
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Literacy
• “We believe communities are stronger when residents are empowered through the use of data”
• Four sessions plus final presentations (20 Dec. 2018)
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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion“…you have […] things like [local Code for America brigade] and stuff like that which are, you know, a certain small subset of the community. But there is not a lot of outreach to general residents. […] It should be understanding what the residents want, need, what services or what information would be best for them, and then figuring out how technology could or could not, you know, address that. And I think that’s an on‐going challenge…” (Participant #19)
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Strategies for moving forward█
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Getting There
• Strategies for activating SUSS parallel question of how to activate open data resources—cultivate a demand side
• Building technical capacity of the public, alongside development of institutions with staying power
• Strengthening partnerships within the university and beyond
• Better outreach and storytelling