Keynotes of the responsibility of Dr. Ayona Datta (Kings College London) and Tim Davies (Open Data Services Cooperative).

The conference will critically address the smart city agenda, and investigate the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in marginalised communities at a range of global contexts. Taking the right to the city as a framework, the symposium investigates the question ‘Whose right to the (Smart) City’? It addresses a gap in current knowledge exchange and seeks to redress the balance of focus from the existing highly urbanised, first-world contexts to concentrate on more marginalised urban communities and people-centred urban change in relation to ICTs.

The conference will examine how and why cities and people are shaping technologies to suit their needs and the role of civic inclusiveness in this process, and will draw on knowledge and perspectives from marginalised city contexts at a range of geographical levels including developing world countries.

We welcome contributions from academics, city governance, NGO’s, community groups and industry experts.

The conference is part of the AHRC Network: Whose Right to the Smart City 2016-2018. www.whosesmartcity.net.

Topics

– Smart citizenship
– Urban governance and open data
– ICTS and marginalization
– Critical reflections on smart urbanismo
– Citizen methodologies for mapping and data visualisation
– Case studies and best practice for citizen centred smart cities

Conference dates

Sunday 10th September – Doctoral session/data workshop/conference papers

Monday 11th September – Main conference papers, network outcomes

The conference is co-located with the conference Data Ache: The 21st International Conference on the Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) – http://drha2017.com/call-for-proposals

Conference format

Conference papers

Doctoral session

Open data workshop

Submissions

We particularly invite ECR and doctoral researchers to submit abstracts.

Please submit a 500 word abstract together with a 200 word bio to whosesmartcity@plymouth.ac.uk.

Please indicate if you are submitting for the main conference session, workshop or doctoral session Deadline: 30th June 2017

Keynotes

Dr. Ayona Datta, Kings College London Tim Davies, Open Data Services Cooperative

Contact

If you have any questions or require further information please contact:

Email: whosesmartcity@plymouth.ac.uk
Twitter: @whosesmartcity
Website: www.whosesmartcity.net / https://whosesmartcity.net/conference/

Timeline

30th June 2017 Deadline for Abstract submissions

15th July 2017 Acceptance confirmation to authors

30th August 2017 Deadline for camera ready papers

10/11th September 2017 Conference, Plymouth, UK

Outcomes

Selected conference papers will be invited to contribute to a Special Issue of a Journal.

Venue

The symposium venue in the state of the art Roland Levinsky Building and hosted by the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Plymouth University.

Conference organisers

Katharine Willis (Plymouth University) Ava Fatah (UCL), Satyarupa Shekar (CAG), Ana Paula Baltazar (UFMG)