Digital Vigilantism: User-led Policing of Smart Cities?
Daniel Trottier reminds us that not all the characteristics of smart cities will be planned and controlled…
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Technology, Society & Justice
Smart City, Surveillance City
Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….
From Transition Towns to Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges
The principles which underpin the Smart Cities initiatives are rarely seen as applicable to smaller communities but, as Branka Dimitrijevic shows, they are often equally valid in such contexts…
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Editorial
Special Focus The focus of this issue is Smart Cities. We have nine articles taking different stances on the topic. All of this was inspired by an event held in Glasgow at the end of March, Designing Smart Cities – opportunities and regulatory challenges (jointly organised by CREATe, Horizon and Strathclyde University). A full resource…
Legal Profession out in Full Force to Support the Online Courts Hackathon
Latest on the massive support for this weekend’s Online Courts Hackathon…
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Universal Service Excludes Mobile Service
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that the Universal Service Directive does not lay down a social pricing obligation for mobile communications and mobile Internet subscriptions…
Whose Smart City is it Anyway?
In the latest in our series on Smart Cities, Marko Balabanovic and Paul Galwas focus on Environment to Consumer services and the use of spatio-temporal data. They consider that such information poses privacy risks, since people’s movements and interactions are so predictable and that cities that embrace privacy principles can build citizen trust by transparently addressing public concerns over data sharing in their ecosystems of third-party service providers….
Many Smart Cities, One Smart Nation – Singapore’s Smart Nation Vision
As in so many areas, Singapore is leading the way in aspects of Smart Cities development, Melissa Low explains the history and looks forward at the issues that will arise in Singapore’s future development…
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The Last Mile: The Smart City Meets Social Innovation
In another in our series of articles on Smart Cities, Rob Procter describes a vision for the smart city – more open and more community focused than the norm…
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Smart Cities: The Built Environment as the Interface to Personal Data
In another in our series of articles focusing on Smart Cities, we are reminded that buildings are, rather obviously, a central ingredient of smart cities. Dr Holger Schnädelbach explains the less obvious: how data and technology are linked to the built environment…
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