Open smart cities can be defined as cities that are socio-technologically enabled. They are also communities where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg) might become a reality for Canada.
Assistant Professor Tracey Lauriault (School of Journalism and Communication) developed this definition and guide to the open smart city in collaboration with OpenNorth, Canada’s national open data civil society organization.
Join Tracey at Spring Conference and hear her presentation From aspiration to reality: Open smart cities. She will share the background on this project and ideas on how this collaborative work can be used as the basis for the design of smart cities.