Working with Mercator Digital Society
It’s been quiet on this blog and my newsletter for quiet — for all the right reasons, though! It’s just been a busy time and my attention has…
Tag: digital rights
Smart Cities & Human Rights
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:02. If you’ve followed…
Category Error: Tracking Ads Are Not a Funding Mechanism
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:01. A note to…
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…
What type of smart city do we want to live in?
Warning: Trick question! The right questions should of course be: What type of city do we want to live in? What parts of our cities do we want…
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…
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…