Is sharing a product of the urban environment? That was the message emerging from pre-lunch session at LeWeb London today. Lisa Gansky took to the stage to argue that the city is a platform we can build upon. 75% of…
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A collection of 6 posts
#RSAcommunity - Zachary Neal and the problem of diverse communities
Liveblogged notes of Zachary Neal‘s talk on community integration and cohesion at the RSA. In this talk he’s going to focus on micro networks. Are diverse communities possible? Tha answer’s grim: no. But there is a bright…
Jen Hawes-Hewitt: strategies for smart cities (Smart Cities Conference)
**Jen Hawes-Hewitt, Accenture Intelligent Cities**[](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/Jen-Hawes-Hewitt.jpg)In 2008 we saw…
Lean Doody and open data in the smart city
Lean Doody, associate at Arup 10 years ago she did a masters at LSE – then the only talk about IT and cities was about the death of place. Ubiquitous broadband would mean people could work from anywhere – why would they…
Open Public Data could make our cities better
It’s a rare pleasure when multiple elements of my interests intersect in one event. Pleasingly, that’s happening with next Friday’s Open Data Cities event. 10 years as a commercial property journalist left me with an abiding interest…
RSA - The Spirit of Cities
One of the advantages of often using the RSA House as my London office is that there are some really excellent lunchtime events in my workplace. Today, Avner de-Shalit, professor of democracy and human rights at the Hebrew University of…