[Ica-osgeo-labs] Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS

Sat May 16 07:53:41 PDT 2015

+1 from me too, Patrick.
Re title -- what about 'OpenCitySmart' to signal the open side of it?
Cheers
Charlie

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Patrick - abstract looks great. Thanks for this.  Just a suggestion for
> the title of the paper "CitySmart - An Open Platform for Smart Cities".
>
> Suchith
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> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick
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> Cc: Jim Miller (miller at ittc.ku.edu); MELICK Brandt; Giuseppe Conti (
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> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Charlie,
> 299 words, how close are we to something we can submit our plans for a
> city we all want to live in? I may have spent too much time defining the
> problem versus specifying the solution. All criticism welcome!!! As long as
> it comes with a constructive alternative. : -)
>
> The world is shrinking, actually we are getting larger in it, and the
> cities have to absorb today’s exponential increase in population. World
> population since the ‘second industrial’ revolution after 1850s has grown
> from 1 billion to almost 8 billion today. In 1950 at a mere 2.5 billion, we
> were almost evenly distributed between rural and urban. Today, in the
> developed world, approximately 80% of the population lives in cities.
>
> This is creating very difficult conditions for sustainability, much more
> simply managing basic city services. We must learn to be more efficient
> along with being more effective. To most wisely achieve this goal, we need
> a more collective approach to problem-solving. Many, if not most of the
> challenges facing the cities or today are quite similar in nature, if not
> identical, from infrastructure management to essential public services. Why
> must each city solve these problems alone? If the cities of the world were
> to share solutions with each other, they could each focus on different
> parts of the problem and thereby only bear the burden for a small fraction
> of the load. And by working together we may come to better appreciate what
> we share in common as well as experience the joy being able to help each
> other.
>
> We propose to establish a single, open source, virtual globe platform,
> CitySmart, with an open API for functionalities (the menu system). We will
> seed this platform with an initial suite of functionalities that include
> tools for managing a renewable power grid, wind and solar, based on the
> success stories of municipalities in northern Italy. We will include
> functionalities for managing input of LiDAR data and infrastructure such as
> water and sewer. This will be in concert with the City of Springfield
> Oregon, who has made significant advances in these areas.
>
>
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Hogan, Patrick
> (ARC-PX)
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 7:40 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Fwd: Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Charlie,
> Good idea! Since this is just the 300 words for acceptance of a paper and
> not the paper itself, I’ll be glad to give it a shot. I will route that
> later today for comment, before submitting, unless somebody beats me to it.
> -Patrick
>
> Sustainable City 2016, Alicante, Spain, 12 - 14 July 2016
> http://www.wessex.ac.uk/16-conferences/sustainable-city-2016/page-4.html
>
> Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as soon as
> possible by clicking on the 'Submit an Abstract' button found at the top
> and bottom of [that] page. Abstracts should clearly state the purpose,
> results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper.
>
> Once your abstract has been reviewed, you will be notified of the
> acceptance of your abstract and be given a submission date as well as
> instructions on how to prepare your paper.
>
> Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted
> for publication, must be presented at the conference.
> We encourage early submission of abstracts and papers to facilitate
> registration and travel arrangements.
>
> From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:
> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
> On Behalf Of Charles Schweik
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 1:35 AM
> To: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org<mailto:ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Sustainable City 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> To colleagues in our "Urban Science/City Analytics/Smart City" group
> (especially in Europe) [1]:
>
> It would be good to have a paper on some component of our group's emerging
> efforts to the conference below...
>
>  -- Charlie
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics
>
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