Smart city citizenship in the sharing economy

Calzada, Igor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4269-830X 2021. Smart city citizenship in the sharing economy. Presented at: Sharing Cultures: 7th International Workshop on Sharing Economy, Barcelona, Spain, 24-26 February 2021.

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Abstract

Against the backdrop of the current hyperconnected and highly virialised post-COVID-19 societies, we, ‘pandemic citizens’, wherever we are located now, have already become tiny chips inside an algorithmic giant system that nobody really understands. Furthermore, over the last decade, the increasing propagation of sensors and data collections machines and data collections machines in the so-called Smart Cities by both the public and the private sector has created democratic challenges around AI, surveillance capitalism, and protecting citizens’ digital rights to privacy and ownership. Consequently, the demise of democracy is clearly already one of the biggest policy challenges of our time, and the undermining of citizens’ digital rights is part of this issue, particularly when many ‘pandemic citizens’ will likely be unemployed during the COVID-19 crisis. Hence, in the broader context of the 7th International Workshop on Sharing Economy (IWSE), this keynote conference suggests revert the intertwined mainstream paradigms so far in the gig economy: the extractivist business model largely characterised as Sharing Economy and the technocratic policy scheme popularised as Smart City. The Sharing Economy paradigm has increasingly been influenced (and even shifted) by the debate regarding urban liberties, digital rights, and cybercontrol by leading us to the consideration that actually the Smart City incarnates a society of techno-political control, which in itself has flourished abundant critique from cybernetic urbanism. In order to provide a constructive standpoint and clearly acknowledging that since 2018 GDPR may have well contributed to opened up a pertinent debate, this keynote conference asks whether it is possible to alter existing data governance extractivist models to incentivize further democratic citizenship through data ownership and technological sovereignty. As such, the keynote conference will highlight citizen’s perspective and social accountability in both transitional and experimental frameworks by pointing out the importance of creating platform-based alternative urbanism such as data and platform co-operatives. To examine citizenship is always important but perhaps never more urgent than right now in the fragile post COVID-19 hyperconnected societies. Amidst the AI-driven algorithmic disruption and surveillance capitalism, this keynote conference will shed light on the way citizens take control of the Smart City, and not viceversa, by revolving around the new book entitled Smart City Citizenship recently published by Elsevier. By following the methodological and conceptual proposal of the book, the keynote conference will introduce nine key ideas including how to (1) deconstruct, (2) unplug, (3) decipher, (4) democratise, (5) replicate, (6) devolve, (7) commonise, (8) protect, and (9) reset Smart City Citizenship.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government T Technology > T Technology (General)
Language other than English:	Basque
Funders:	European Commission, H2020, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Related URLs:	Publisher
Date of Acceptance:	24 February 2021
Last Modified:	09 Nov 2022 10:18
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/139006

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