App In, Driver Out: Why Digital Concierge Services aren’t Quite the Future
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:07. Two things, side…
Category: Digital Transformation
Interview: IG BCE Kompakt “Technologie darf Menschen nicht diskriminieren”
The IG BCE’s magazine Kompakt interviewed me about IoT, AI and why simple solutions so often are inappropriate for complex issues: The interview is in German, available as…
Developing better urban metrics for Smart Cities
When we embed connected technologies — sensors, networks, etc. — into the public space*, we create connected public space. In industry parlance, this is called a Smart City. (I prefer…
How to plan & govern a smart city?
Taking the publication of Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation and Development Plan plan for the smart city development at Toronto’s waterfront (“Toronto Tomorrow”) as an occasion to think out…
Which type of Smart City do we want to live in?
Connectivity changes the nature of things. It quite literally changes what a thing is. By adding connectivity to, say, the proverbial internet fridge it stops being just an…
Thanks and Happy Holidays: That was 2017
This is end-of-year post #10 (all prior ones here). That’s right, I’ve been writing this post every year for ten years in a row! So what happened in…
Focus areas over time
The end of the year is a good time to look back and take stock, and one of the things I’ve been looking at especially is how the…