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Smart Cities 3.0. This type of smart city isn’t based on monitoring or services, but is based on empowering the people that live there and improving wellbeing and making the link between the citizen and the local government a more positive one.
Right now, people believe that the current approaches to smart cities are in the interests of privileged people and industry and that they don’t address problems such as poverty, health and unemployment. To address these problems there has been considerable research around the development of ‘shareable cities’.
This wouldn’t mean using profitable platforms like Uber, but instead is centred around community sharing and engagement such as sharing skills and tools. This allows for a sense of community development and social inclusion which would contribute towards a more sustainable city and at the same time save people money.
The city of Vienna has applied the 2.0 model across the city but has now started to move towards the 3.0 model by engaging with the population in a number of partnerships around sustainable energy use. Some Smart cities are often a combination of the different levels, 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 and some cities are transforming from 1.0 straight to 3.0 and missing out 2.0 entirely.
Blindsquare is an interesting example where an app uses crowdsourced information and GPS to make it easier for the blind to navigate a city.
Examples like this show it’s not the technology that makes a city ‘smart’, it’s what it does with the technology, how it does it and why. Smart Cities Library summed it up nicely in this tweet.