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

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Sven,
Yes, this looks great!
We couldn’t have a better partner than JRC’s Digital Earth Unit!
We have IBM’s Smarter Cities listed (#3) under Potential Partners
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_UrbanScience_CityAnalytics#Potential_Partners

I can’t quite figure out www.CitySDK.eu<http://www.CitySDK.eu>
Looks like all the right words. . .
Open APIs are the ‘saffron’ of key ingredients.
Maybe they just need a virtual globe platform. ☺
Or maybe I just need a better sense of what they’re doing.
We operate under the bit tent principle and want all cities to join up!

-Patrick
(had to edit this thread to get it under the silly 40k message limit, apologies)

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

Hi all,

Great idea to submit a joint paper!

Given that many others are working on smart city solutions (take IBM as a prominent example [1]), and we come with a certain set of experiences into this, the statement “We propose to establish a single, open source, virtual globe platform, CitySmart, with an open API for functionalities (the menu system)” might push us into a corner where others may see this as yet another solution or a competitor (see e.g. CitySDK [2]). I would prefer a phrasing (and approach) that plays with the central aims of openness, useful for everybody and worldwide applicability. Could we change the statement into something like this: “We propose to establish a unifying, open virtual globe, OpenCitySmart, with an API for functionalities. Based on existing open solutions, we will seed this global platform” (still resulting in a total of 299 words)?

Best,
Sven

[1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/smarter_cities/overview/
[2] http://www.citysdk.eu/

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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. : -)


OpenCitySmart - The Open Platform for Smart Cities

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 of 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.


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.

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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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