In mid-August I attended an “Ethics and Automation” panel run by HMG’s Automation Taskforce, and hosted by Katie Rhodes, Senior Policy & Strategy Advisor; this is a rather delayed part 2 of my thoughts from the session. The second speaker was Dr Brent Mittelstadt of the Oxford Internet Institute and Alan Turing Institute. His belief […]
At #ThinkGov2020 last week Ginni Rometty, IBM’s Executive Chairman, had a conversation with Jessica Tisch, Commissioner of the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), NYC. At one point Jessica made the statement I’ve borrowed for this blog’s title. It’s so true. For a bit of background, Jessica Tisch moved into this role earlier in […]
… to get it wrong. That was another conclusion from a Smarter City workshop and I think it’s so important. Not every good idea will work in every area in every city. But not every idea that fails in one area will fail in another too. So don’t be afraid to trial things. After all, […]
I’ve been thinking about this ever since I sat down in a workshop with Sustainable Glasgow to discuss the future of the city centre in Glasgow and what changes are required, with limited resources, to cater for future needs. The climate is changing, and it’s likely to get wetter and warmer. Anna Beswick, of Adaptation […]
In 2011 I had the privilege of being a part of an IBM Smarter Cities Challenge team, a team deployed to Glasgow to tackle the issue that is Fuel Poverty. Making our goal “affordable warmth” we recommended a long list of actions for Glasgow, and not all of them were based on technology, but about […]
I’ve been thinking about the “how” of Smarter and reading the vision for Smarter Cities at IBM.com is an inspirational one. But for those who already have commitments on resources (people, budget specifically) then the approach to Smarter can be achieved with smaller steps. Let’s think about a single view of the citizen and what […]
When I first thought about what the “cities” of “smarter cities” might mean I fell into the trap of thinking about local government and the related connotations. But I suspected that was just a little short-sighted. So, I decided to think about what a city is from the perspective of a citizen, and of someone […]
Well, here we go. My first venture into the world of blogging. (Do most blogs start like this?) I was asked to cover Smarter Cities as an “Industry Segment” in IBM back in January, and when I’ve been able to snatch a few minutes or hours here and there I’ve been trying to get a […]
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