03 - Sensing the city & citizen science - SHUE

At the beginning, smart cities focused on the technical aspects:

• Technology and infrastructure
• Management

The beneficiaries though should be the people: the human aspect.

Citizen engagement in urban planning

• Crowdsourcing: citizens as sensors
• Distributed intelligence: citizens as basic interpreters
• Participatory science: participation in problem definition and data collection
• Citizen science: collaborative science - problem definition, data collection and analysis