Stephen Goldsmith

The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities. Featuring vivid case studies highlighting the work of pioneers in New York, Boston, Chicago and more, the book provides a compelling model for the future of governance. The book will help mayors, chief technology officers, city administrators, agency directors, civic groups and nonprofit leaders break out of current paradigms to collectively address civic problems. The Responsive City is the culmination of research originating from the Data-Smart City Solutions initiative, an ongoing project at Harvard Kennedy School working to catalyze adoption of data projects on the city level. The book is co-authored by Professor Stephen Goldsmith, director of Data-Smart City Solutions at Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor Susan Crawford, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg penned the book’s foreword.… (más)

Two academics with experience in government technology give case studies in how big cities engineered new systems that put data to use improving services. Civil servants are framed as heroes turning around backwards bureaucracies, but many similar stories could also be told in corporate IT departments. The book's a breezy read despite a few rough spots (What exactly is a "comfortable midwestern twang"?). The authors have kind things to say about a client, the Smart Chicago Collaborative, and other data-savvy nonprofits working toward equal access to social services. They don't address gaming data for political objectives, and merely say "not everyone will agree" what makes for intrusive tracking. That's a topic for other authors.… (más)

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Faz o elogio dos dados como novo capital e a cidade como um ecossistema onde estes dados existem em modo natural e que resultam num ciclo virtuoso para a própria comunidade - que utiliza os dados e os gera e que da sua partilha emerge o desenvolvimento do território e da criatividade das pessoas que interagem nesse território/cidade.

Os dois autores apresentam capítulos próprios para discutir e aprofundar as questões que resultam da emergência de dados a tempo real para a gestão da cidade e para explorar do ponto de vista económico e comunitário.

Em especial, vale a pena a leitura do capítulo 6 (the data-smart city) que é diversas vezes referido na literatura das cidades digitais / smart cities. No geral, um texto de leitura obrigatória para quem tem responsabilidades de gerir uma cidade… (más)