And in the end the data is everything for a city simulation. The point where real and virtual become one. The point where the real city gives the simulation a background and enables both the administration and the citizen a way to understand and appreciate the complexity of a real city.
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/Data-Maps-in-SimCity-Part-1
sabato 19 maggio 2012
mercoledì 16 maggio 2012
Sim City...
this is the Smart City Tool I want. It's a tool created for the people, not for politicians or managers. For people by engineers and designers. No politics involved. No mediations except for data complexity. This is the tool that can leverage the best of the civic spirit and enables the citizen to interact in the most intuitive way with the very fabric of the urban living and interacting. And many point-oriented experiences are already distributed in the world. Will we be able to achieve this tool? Or will we be always depending on IBM Tivoli to see and manage the city?
lunedì 30 aprile 2012
I had a dream...
... A dream where the governance had a real time dashboard about the city not far from the SimCity interface. A dream where the decisions about the structure of the city were taken based on this data. And where the information displayed was basically public and not politically filtered. Then i understood. It was basically an instrument for the very fashionable Smart City. The problem is that this instrument does not exit. It's not a strange IBM Tivoli adaptation (you don't want to manage your city through gauges and sliders), and it's not a funny tool custom-designed for a specific city. It should be a set of tools maybe completely independent from each other and only referencing the same backend. What kind of tools should these be? Well, The many open source projects around the world show an enormous interest in those small tools. Would there be a possibility to merge these projects into a larger view on how cities can be managed and transparency in that management can be gained? Let's see the various projects:
- From Italy comes the political part through OpenMunicipio, a tool developed by the developers of OpenParlamento, enabling the tracking of every political decision and every absence and presence of a politician during the various sessions of the council.
- From Canada comes the django-version of FixMyStreet, a british open source tool, clone of SeeClickFix. The idea is good, but it depends highly on google's geocoding system, while using
- From USA comes OpenTreeMap, to track both the positions of trees in the city and their problems regarding risks for the people below them
- From Brasil comes the webtool enabling Urban Acupuncture, to deliver pressure points to the city and making a better city through those points and activities coming from the people
- From Ukraina comes a non-web tool enabling the programming of the bus schedules, while...
- From France comes a non-web tool to evaluate the various tracks of the bus map
- From the OKFN come all the webapps enabling data management for the opendata-oriented city, and for example the OpenSpending app to display the usage of money.
And in all of this Open Data is both the sideproduct of the new age of public information management, and the source of the whole power of such a tool...
What do you think? Could a non-for-profit create such a tool and start delivering it to governance? Could we nerds finally save the world?
martedì 18 ottobre 2011
venerdì 14 ottobre 2011
News about RER
Region Emilia Romagna, following Piedmont and using the same infrastructure (a personalized Joomla installment) has opened up some data. The data is available at http://dati.emilia-romagna.it/, where the administration is going to publish more and more data and hopefully interesting meta-governmental data that is so common in the States but is so difficult to obtain in Europe...
venerdì 7 ottobre 2011
mercoledì 5 ottobre 2011
OpenBologna
Fascinating! I'll be speaking at OpenBologna in the afternoon Barcamp part! ASAP the slides! :)
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