Smart Cities Are Not That Smart! IPWEAQ Conference Debate Townsville October 2017

Team scants They call me Bruce! Sandra ‘the Professor’ Burke – the Wonderwoman of public debating Ren ‘the Suit’ Niemann – World Champion debater

Autonomous Vehicles

Drones

Definition of Smart Verb – to be a source of sharp, local and usually superficial pain Adjective – clean, tidy and well dressed

Definition of City A large town! An inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village

Definition – Smart City A large town that has a tendency to be a source of sharp, local pain An inhabited large place that is clean, tidy and well dressed!

Definition – Smart city Smart - is associated with quick mental alertness, resourcefulness, capability of independent and intelligent actions and ability to reason. 

Cities cannot be smart! Cities need humans to drive the smarts Without citizens cities are dumb A sensor can’t think through a problem it can only provide you with data A smart bin cannot reason A smart card cannot have independent thought CCTV camera is only useful if a person is looking at the footage

Smart vs Happy, Safe Cities Index Rank Smart Happy Safe 1 Vienna Rio Tokyo 2 Toronto Sydney Singapore 3 Paris Barcelona Osaka 4 New York Amsterdam 5 London Melbourne 6 Madrid 7 Berlin San Francisco 8 Copenhagen Rome Stockholm 9 Hong Kong 10 Buenos Aries Zurich Smart Cities are not that SMART

Smart Cities - healthy humans? (not) Smart Cities are not that SMART

Closing slides

Smart water

Smart homes