Mona Roman, director of innovation at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, wrote a review about our book Smart Cities in the Post-Algorithmic Era: Integrating Technologies, Platforms and Governance published by Edward Elgar. On this occasion, this note refers to the title of the book. Smart Cities in the Post-Algorithmic Era is a collection of…

The present work for the Smart City Ontology (SCO 2.0) continues the efforts that started in 2015, integrates and re-uses many entities (classes, object properties, data properties) of the initial version (SCO 1.), but also has some important differences. The motivation for continuing the work on the smart city ontology has been the interest of…

Smart city project: A project from Singapore in which a city environment for agriculture and food production can control the characteristics of the plants and food properties without using GMO. The full video via National Geographic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi6r3hZe5Tg&t=737s  

Two important reports about the market and vendors of smart cities help understand a gap related to the supply chain of smart cities. The first is the Frost & Sullivan report “Smart Cities – Frost & Sullivan Value Proposition” [1]. The second is the IoT Analytics report “Smart City Use Cases & Technology Report 2020”…

Last week, I encountered two events related to research and innovation. The University of San Diego has published a visual resource guide titled “Business Innovation and Leadership Lessons From 8 Revolutionary Entrepreneurs” which lists the most important measures of innovation that companies use. It is based on a survey carried out by PWC in 1200…

The PPP of my talk in the workshop “Smart Cities digital transformation and digital competences for smart cities’ personnel”. The online workshop took place on Wednesday, 3 June 2020, 10:30 -14:30 (EEST). It was organised in the framework of the DEVOPS project, which aims to close the gap between today’s and future’s skills demand of…

In recent days we have seen a series of initiatives to combat the pandemic with data, web platforms for research sharing, and models for simulation and forecasting. But how successful can these efforts be? What digital systems can strengthen and accelerate research and innovation in various fields of science and technology? Digital platforms, sharing research…

Unprecedented circumstances with Covid-19 make the need for mission-driven research to be more urgent, mobilizing research labs to discover drugs and vaccines, squeezing the usual timeline for such discoveries and bypassing standard operating rules. But what is the balance between mission rules and human ingenuity? On June 11, 1969, NASA announced that Apollo 11 received…

This Christmas we had the happy coincidence of two editions of books that appeared almost the same week: Smart Cities in the Post-Algorithmic Era (Edward Elgar) and Smart Cities and Connected Intelligence (Routledge). It was not planned and each book had its own orbit over the last three years. But both point out the same…

An open access paper just published on the “post-platform economy”, an economy based on decentralized and self-organized interactions between producers and consumers over “Distributed Market Spaces”. Currently, very successful platform-based ecosystems are verticals markets. They manage to leverage technology and network effects, setup large ecosystems, and gain unprecedented power, putting them in a position of…