Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA
Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA (www.igorcalzada.com/publications)
(i) Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (SIR) 2022-2023, US-UK Fulbright Commission; (ii) Principal Research Fellow / Reader at Cardiff University, WISERD, and (iii) Senior Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford.
Former (i) Senior Advisor at UN-Habiitat. Previously, (ii) Senior Scientist at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), Centre for Advanced Studies & Digital Economy Unit and (iii) Lecturer, Research Fellow, and Policy Adviser in Urban Transformations ESRC and Future of Cities Programmes at the University of Oxford. He was also Lecturer in the MSc in Global Sustainable Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in European (smart) cities and regions by paying special attention to the interplay of multistakeholders and the creation of data cooperatives and platform cooperatives schemes from the social innovation perspective. In particular, he is focused on blending two research fields, city-regions (www.cityregions.org) and smart city, by benchmarking European case-studies through the application of qualitative and action research methods to data-driven cities and living labs (www.replicate-project.eu/city2citylearning).
He has completed research projects on smart cities and social innovation funded by the H2020-European Commission, ESRC, RSA, and Ikerbasque, and has published research findings in internationally leading journals including Journal of Urban Affairs, Citizenship Studies, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP), Space and Polity, Journal of Urban Technology, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, and Regional Studies Regional Science.
He was the RSA Early Career grant holder in 2014. Previously he has worked at the Aston University in Birmingham, at the University of Nevada (USA), at the University of Helsinki (Finland), and at the University of Mondragon (Spain)(www.mondragon-corporation.com). He also has experience outside academia working with stakeholders insofar as he was Director of Research in the Basque Government and was project director at the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation in the Basque Country (Spain).
His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in European (smart) cities and regions by paying special attention to the interplay of multistakeholders and the creation of data cooperatives and platform cooperatives schemes from the social innovation perspective. He compares innovative processes in European city-regions (www.cityregions.org) and smart cities (www.replicate-project.eu/city2citylearning) by paying special attention to regional and metropolitan governance devolution cases. In addition he founded an spin-off called www.translokal.com
His monographs:
Emerald (2022):
'Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies'
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/emerging-digital-citizenship-regimes/?k=9781803823324
Elsevier (2021):
'Smart City Citizenship'
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
+Info:
www.igorcalzada.com/publications
GoogleScholar: 3023 citations/h-index 23/i10-index 48
Phone: 00 44 7887 661925
(i) Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (SIR) 2022-2023, US-UK Fulbright Commission; (ii) Principal Research Fellow / Reader at Cardiff University, WISERD, and (iii) Senior Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford.
Former (i) Senior Advisor at UN-Habiitat. Previously, (ii) Senior Scientist at the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre (JRC), Centre for Advanced Studies & Digital Economy Unit and (iii) Lecturer, Research Fellow, and Policy Adviser in Urban Transformations ESRC and Future of Cities Programmes at the University of Oxford. He was also Lecturer in the MSc in Global Sustainable Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in European (smart) cities and regions by paying special attention to the interplay of multistakeholders and the creation of data cooperatives and platform cooperatives schemes from the social innovation perspective. In particular, he is focused on blending two research fields, city-regions (www.cityregions.org) and smart city, by benchmarking European case-studies through the application of qualitative and action research methods to data-driven cities and living labs (www.replicate-project.eu/city2citylearning).
He has completed research projects on smart cities and social innovation funded by the H2020-European Commission, ESRC, RSA, and Ikerbasque, and has published research findings in internationally leading journals including Journal of Urban Affairs, Citizenship Studies, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP), Space and Polity, Journal of Urban Technology, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, and Regional Studies Regional Science.
He was the RSA Early Career grant holder in 2014. Previously he has worked at the Aston University in Birmingham, at the University of Nevada (USA), at the University of Helsinki (Finland), and at the University of Mondragon (Spain)(www.mondragon-corporation.com). He also has experience outside academia working with stakeholders insofar as he was Director of Research in the Basque Government and was project director at the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation in the Basque Country (Spain).
His main research interest draws on how digital transformation processes driven by AI disruption in the post-GDPR current context are altering techno-political and democratic conditions of data governance for the emergence of new algorithmic citizenship regimes in European (smart) cities and regions by paying special attention to the interplay of multistakeholders and the creation of data cooperatives and platform cooperatives schemes from the social innovation perspective. He compares innovative processes in European city-regions (www.cityregions.org) and smart cities (www.replicate-project.eu/city2citylearning) by paying special attention to regional and metropolitan governance devolution cases. In addition he founded an spin-off called www.translokal.com
His monographs:
Emerald (2022):
'Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies'
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/emerging-digital-citizenship-regimes/?k=9781803823324
Elsevier (2021):
'Smart City Citizenship'
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
+Info:
www.igorcalzada.com/publications
GoogleScholar: 3023 citations/h-index 23/i10-index 48
Phone: 00 44 7887 661925
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Calzada, I. (2021), ‘Smart City Citizenship in the Sharing Economy’ Keynote Conference Speaker, Sharing Cultures: 7th International Workshop on Sharing Economy, 24-26 Feb, Barcelona (Spain). Member of the Scientific Committee. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27812.50560/1
DigiTranScope is a research project of the JRC (Joint Research Centre), Centre for Advanced Studies at the European Commission, focusing on the governance of digitally transformed human societies. The project aims to provide a deeper understanding of key aspects of digital transformation to help policy-makers address the challenges facing European society over the next decades.
To cite this conference paper:
Calzada, I. (2020), Digital Transformations & the (Smart) City. DigiTranScope Autumn Institute 2020, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, 8 October.
Books by Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, FeRSA
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-4174-7
© by the authors
Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development
Harald A. Mieg
(Ed.)
Pages: 242
Published: May 2022
(This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development that was published in Sustainability)
https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5565
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Innovation_Sustainable_Urban_Development
The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities
by Igor Calzada
Sustainability 2021, 13(20), 11438; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011438 - 16 Oct 2021
Cited by 5 | Viewed by 2001
Abstract New data-driven technologies in global cities have yielded potential but also have intensified techno-political concerns. Consequently, in recent years, several declarations/manifestos have emerged across the world claiming to protect citizens’ digital rights. In 2018, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and NYC city councils formed the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights (CCDR), an international alliance of global People-Centered Smart Cities—currently encompassing 49 cities worldwide—to promote citizens’ digital rights on a global scale. People-centered smart cities programme is the strategic flagship programme by UN-Habitat that explicitly advocates the CCDR as an institutionally innovative and strategic city-network to attain policy experimentation and sustainable urban development. Against this backdrop and being inspired by the popular quote by Hannah Arendt on “the right to have rights”, this article aims to explore what “digital rights” may currently mean within a sample consisting of 13 CCDR global people-centered smart cities: Barcelona, Amsterdam, NYC, Long Beach, Toronto, Porto, London, Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, Portland, San Antonio, and Glasgow. Particularly, this article examines the (i) understanding and the (ii) prioritisation of digital rights in 13 cities through a semi-structured questionnaire by gathering 13 CCDR city representatives/strategists’ responses. These preliminary findings reveal not only distinct strategies but also common policy patterns. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development)
Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies explores the roles played by digital citizenship in the context of changing geographies of the nation-state in Europe in the aftermath of the global pandemic; and reframes the concept of digital citizenship amid the rescaling of nation-states in Europe by connecting it to the increasing digitalisation of urban environment as a corollary of pandemic.
By theorising the concept of citizenship in the digital age through the lens of the evolutionary character of its classical concept or by drawing upon the narratives regarding the democratising potential and risks of the Internet, Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes explores the complex interaction of social and political variables shaping offline and online civic practices and their intertwined relation to the urban environment, analysing the way it is produced and governed in the COVID-19 new context.
To access this book:
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/emerging-digital-citizenship-regimes/?k=9781803823324
To cite this book:
Calzada, I. (2022), Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, Emerald Points Series.
To acquire this book from 25th May 2022 onwards:
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To cite this publication:
Craglia, M., Scholten, H.J., Micheli, M., Hradec, J., Calzada Mugica, I., Luitjens, S., Ponti, M. and Boter, J., Digitranscope: Key findings, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-30424-1 (online), doi:10.2760/169341 (online), JRC124113, KJ-01-21-070-EN-N (online).
To cite this publication:
Craglia, M., Scholten, H.J., Micheli, M., Hradec, J., Calzada, I., Luitjens, S., Ponti, M. and Boter, J., Digitranscope: The governance of digitally-transformed society, EUR 30590 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-30229-2 (online), doi:10.2760/503546 (online), JRC123362.
The DigiTranScope Autumn Institute was an opportunity to share and discuss the findings of the project with external experts and with professionals from academia, business, and public administration selected on the basis of an open competition and their expression of interest.
The Institute was originally planned to take place in May 2020 in Fiesole, on the hills overlooking Florence, Italy. Due to the Covid-19 crisis we had first to postpose the meeting to October and then organise it entirely online.
The spirit of the Autumn Institute was about critical thinking and mutual learning in a multi- disciplinary environment. It encouraged informal sharing and constructive feedback, focusing on participants’ research projects, ideas, and critical and interdisciplinary perspectives around the pivotal applied digital social sciences practices and theories. Of course, being able to do the Institute face to face in a wonderful natural environment would have been ideal, but the through the enthusiasm of the participants we were able to achieve the same objectives also in a virtual environment to a large extent.
The report illustrates some of the main messages from the keynotes and the of key take-aways from the perspective of the Digitranscope project.
To cite this publication:
Scholten, H., Craglia, M., Micheli, M., Calzada, I., Misuraca, G., & Hradec, J. (2020). DigiTranScope Autumn Institute 2020: Governance of Digitally Transformed Societies. Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg. JRC. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26912.20482/2.
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Candel, M., Fritsche, L., Hui, D., Islam, O., Issar, S., Kamwanja, A., Lucy, L., Mueller, R., Piamsawat, N., Riekkinen, V. & Sampson, R.] (2017), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Stockholm, Berlin, Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar, Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast, Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki, & Scotland, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14958.72000/2.
Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, and Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
To cite this book:
Calzada, I. (2021), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000. doi: 10.1016/c2017-0-02973-7.
Further information:
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
https://www.amazon.com/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada-dp-0128153008/dp/0128153008/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1592420565
Calzada examines in this chapter the ways in which the hegemonic approach to the “smart city” is evolving into a new intervention category, called the “experimental city.” While this evolution presents some innovations, mainly regarding how smart citizens will be increasingly considered more as decision makers than data providers, likewise, some underlying issues arise, concerning the hidden side and ethical implications of the techno-politics of data and the urban commons. These issues engage with multi-stakeholders, particularly with the specific Penta Helix framework that brings together private sector, public sector, academia, civic society, and entrepreneurs. These innovations in urban life and its governance will inevitably bring us into debate about new potential models of business and society, concerning, for instance, the particular urban co-operative scheme employed.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zachary Walsh Part 1. Transdisciplinary Foundations for Contemporary Social and Economic Transformation.- Chapter 2. In Search of a New Compass in the Great Transition: Towards Co-Designing the Urban Space We Care About.- Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino Chapter 3. Navigating the Great Transition via Postcapitalism and Contemplative Social Sciences.- Zachary Walsh Chapter 4. Having, Being, and the Commons.- Ugo Mattei Chapter 5. Par Cum Pari: The Value System of Commons-Based Peer Production and the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church.- Michel Bauwens Chapter 6. Economics Beyond the Self.- Laszlo Zsolnai Chapter 7. The Koan of the Market.- Julie A. Nelson Chapter 8. Epistemology of Feminist Economics.- Zofia Łapniewska Chapter 9. How to Make What Really Matters Count in Economic Decision-Making: Care, Domestic Violence, Gender Responsive Budgeting, Macroeconomic Policies and Human Rights.- Margunn Bjørnholt Chapter 10. Contemplative Economy and Contemplative Economics: Definitions, Branches and Methodologies.- Xabier Renteria-Uriarte Part 2. Collective Awareness, the Self, and Digital Technologies. Chapter 11. From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities?.- Igor Calzada Chapter 12. First Life: From Maps to Social Networks and Back.- Alessio Antonini, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore and Vincenzo Giorgino Chapter 13. The Organic Internet: Building Communications Networks from the Grassroots.- Panayotis Antoniadis Chapter 14. Technocratic Automation and Contemplative Overlays in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing.- Philip Butler Chapter 15. One Bright Byte: Dōgen and the Re-Embodiment of Digital Technologies.- David Casacuberta
This policy report about the 2nd Edition 2016-2017 of the MSC in Global Sustainable Cities, entitled ‘Global Sustainable City-Regions,’ covers the work developed jointly by the lecturer, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, as the editor of the publication and students/participants of the second edition of the MSc from September to December 2016 at the Institute for Future Cities in the Business Faculty at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland – UK).
Specifically, this policy report follows a two-sequential-module structure:
• The first module, entitled ‘Global Cities: Sustainability and Society,’ consists of six methodological units.
• Thereafter, the second module, entitled ‘Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities,’ consists of five methodological units.
The policy report focuses on three urban global issues in a comparative basis. The MSc was developed in a team-based dynamic by applying qualitative action research methodologies to understand and interpret each case and to benchmark and contrast with other cases that addressed the same global urban issue.
The cases were selected jointly by the lecturer and the students/participants in a dynamic process in order to achieve a suitable selection of cases that would allow them to:
• arrange groups around one specific global urban issue,
• compare cases around the same specific urban issue, and
• produce a full case study by applying the two-sequential-module methodology.
As a result, the following three global urban issues and seven Global Sustainable City-Region case studies were selected. Each student/participant worked on each of them, as follows:
Transformative Smart Cities:
Stockholm (Melissa Candel)
Kolkata (Dalia Hui)
Masdar (Omar Islam)
Bengaluru (Seema Issar)
Seoul (Nattharucha Piamsawat)
Changing Social Innovation:
Berlin (Laura Fritsche)
Belfast (Laetitia Lucy)
Malawi (Akuzike Florence Kamwanja)
Hong Kong (Rebecca Seraphine Mueller)
Helsinki (Venla Riekkinen)
Glasgow (Rhona Morven Sampson)
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The series of editions have been published as follows:
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Abubaker, H., Bensaid, M., Butler, M., Cameron, M., Doin, S., Duke, I., Dutary, R., Fleming-Knox, A.R., & Klinefelter, T.] (2018), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Naples, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, Lyon, Panamá, Kuala-Lumpur, & Silicon Valley, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-5-8. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21794.73922
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Candel, M., Fritsche, L., Hui, D., Islam, O., Issar, S., Kamwanja, A., Lucy, L., Mueller, R., Piamsawat, N., Riekkinen, V. & Sampson, R.] (2017), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Stockholm, Berlin, Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar, Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast, Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki, & Scotland, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14958.72000/2.
Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, and Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
Here is the abstract of his contribution to the book with the Chapter entitled '(Un)Plugging Smart Cities with Urban Transformations [A Critical & Constructive View]:
Dr Calzada argues that the development of the so-called buzzword smart city and its use in planning inner cities are intimately bound to current urban transformations. In an attempt to deconstruct or unplug the buzzword, Part Four shows a wide range of topics order to create not only a critical but also a constructive policy agenda of smartness in cities and regions. The conclusion of Part Four concludes with the necessity to plug stakeholders in by setting up a complex, multi-stakeholder, city–regional urbanity as a way toward real smartness in cities and regions. To plug in, or connect, stakeholders, one should consider the interdependencies among them; the need for democratic mechanisms to manage data; the need to scale up urban solutions to metropolitan and city–regional levels; the intent to provide comparative evidence-based data; and, finally, the tendency to establish not only quantitative but also qualitative rankings and city dashboards that enable adaptability rather than replicability. Part Four is structured in two chapters: Unplugging the Smart Cities (Chapter 12) and Plugging the Smart Cities (Chapter 13). At the end of Chapter 13, Dr Calzada elaborates on future policy implications for smartness in cities and regions: Transitions; Smart Devolution; Multi-stakeholders’ Interdependencies; Big Data; Smart City–Regional and Metropolitan Governance; Benchmarking; and City-Dashboards.
Specifically, this policy report follows a two-sequential-module structure:
• The first module, entitled ‘Global Cities: Sustainability and Society,’ consists of six methodological units.
• Thereafter, the second module, entitled ‘Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities,’ consists of five methodological units.
The policy report focuses on three urban global issues in a comparative basis. The MSc was developed in a team-based dynamic by applying qualitative action research methodologies to understand and interpret each case and to benchmark and contrast with other cases that addressed the same global urban issue.
The cases were selected jointly by the lecturer and the students/participants in a dynamic process in order to achieve a suitable selection of cases that would allow them to:
• arrange groups around one specific global urban issue,
• compare cases around the same specific urban issue, and
• produce a full case study by applying the two-sequential-module methodology.
As a result, the following three global urban issues and seven Global Sustainable City-Region case studies were selected. Each student/participant worked on each of them, as follows:
Global Southerners
Mumbai (Kirsten MacDonald)
Shenzhen (Ning Qiu)
Resilient Contradictors
Reykjavik/Iceland (Christopher Dynes)
Portland/Oregon (Gemma Murray)
Budapest (Nikolett Watson-Puskás)
Regional Networkers
Glasgow/Scotland (Gavin McAdam)
Rotterdam/Randstad (Frankie Barrett)
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The series of editions have been published as follows:
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Abubaker, H., Bensaid, M., Butler, M., Cameron, M., Doin, S., Duke, I., Dutary, R., Fleming-Knox, A.R., & Klinefelter, T.] (2018), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Naples, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, Lyon, Panamá, Kuala-Lumpur, & Silicon Valley, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-5-8. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21794.73922
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Candel, M., Fritsche, L., Hui, D., Islam, O., Issar, S., Kamwanja, A., Lucy, L., Mueller, R., Piamsawat, N., Riekkinen, V. & Sampson, R.] (2017), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Stockholm, Berlin, Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar, Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast, Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki, & Scotland, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14958.72000/2.
Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, and Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
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Related source and to cite this source please use this citation:
Calzada, I. (2022), Hyperconnected Diasporas. AEMI Journal. (no. 19-20). DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.23399.73127/1.
Data source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcP-1cIl6F0 via https://hanhemen.eus/es/euskal-komunitate-globala-diaspora-biziberritzeko-prest/.
To cite this keynote conference:
Calzada, I. (2021), ‘Smart City Citizenship in the Sharing Economy’ Keynote Conference Speaker, Sharing Cultures: 7th International Workshop on Sharing Economy, 24-26 Feb, Barcelona (Spain). Member of the Scientific Committee. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.27812.50560/1
DigiTranScope is a research project of the JRC (Joint Research Centre), Centre for Advanced Studies at the European Commission, focusing on the governance of digitally transformed human societies. The project aims to provide a deeper understanding of key aspects of digital transformation to help policy-makers address the challenges facing European society over the next decades.
To cite this conference paper:
Calzada, I. (2020), Digital Transformations & the (Smart) City. DigiTranScope Autumn Institute 2020, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, 8 October.
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-4174-7
© by the authors
Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development
Harald A. Mieg
(Ed.)
Pages: 242
Published: May 2022
(This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development that was published in Sustainability)
https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5565
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Innovation_Sustainable_Urban_Development
The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities
by Igor Calzada
Sustainability 2021, 13(20), 11438; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011438 - 16 Oct 2021
Cited by 5 | Viewed by 2001
Abstract New data-driven technologies in global cities have yielded potential but also have intensified techno-political concerns. Consequently, in recent years, several declarations/manifestos have emerged across the world claiming to protect citizens’ digital rights. In 2018, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and NYC city councils formed the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights (CCDR), an international alliance of global People-Centered Smart Cities—currently encompassing 49 cities worldwide—to promote citizens’ digital rights on a global scale. People-centered smart cities programme is the strategic flagship programme by UN-Habitat that explicitly advocates the CCDR as an institutionally innovative and strategic city-network to attain policy experimentation and sustainable urban development. Against this backdrop and being inspired by the popular quote by Hannah Arendt on “the right to have rights”, this article aims to explore what “digital rights” may currently mean within a sample consisting of 13 CCDR global people-centered smart cities: Barcelona, Amsterdam, NYC, Long Beach, Toronto, Porto, London, Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, Portland, San Antonio, and Glasgow. Particularly, this article examines the (i) understanding and the (ii) prioritisation of digital rights in 13 cities through a semi-structured questionnaire by gathering 13 CCDR city representatives/strategists’ responses. These preliminary findings reveal not only distinct strategies but also common policy patterns. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development)
Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies explores the roles played by digital citizenship in the context of changing geographies of the nation-state in Europe in the aftermath of the global pandemic; and reframes the concept of digital citizenship amid the rescaling of nation-states in Europe by connecting it to the increasing digitalisation of urban environment as a corollary of pandemic.
By theorising the concept of citizenship in the digital age through the lens of the evolutionary character of its classical concept or by drawing upon the narratives regarding the democratising potential and risks of the Internet, Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes explores the complex interaction of social and political variables shaping offline and online civic practices and their intertwined relation to the urban environment, analysing the way it is produced and governed in the COVID-19 new context.
To access this book:
https://books.emeraldinsight.com/book/detail/emerging-digital-citizenship-regimes/?k=9781803823324
To cite this book:
Calzada, I. (2022), Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies. Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, Emerald Points Series.
To acquire this book from 25th May 2022 onwards:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1803823321
https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/1803823321
To cite this publication:
Craglia, M., Scholten, H.J., Micheli, M., Hradec, J., Calzada Mugica, I., Luitjens, S., Ponti, M. and Boter, J., Digitranscope: Key findings, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-30424-1 (online), doi:10.2760/169341 (online), JRC124113, KJ-01-21-070-EN-N (online).
To cite this publication:
Craglia, M., Scholten, H.J., Micheli, M., Hradec, J., Calzada, I., Luitjens, S., Ponti, M. and Boter, J., Digitranscope: The governance of digitally-transformed society, EUR 30590 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-30229-2 (online), doi:10.2760/503546 (online), JRC123362.
The DigiTranScope Autumn Institute was an opportunity to share and discuss the findings of the project with external experts and with professionals from academia, business, and public administration selected on the basis of an open competition and their expression of interest.
The Institute was originally planned to take place in May 2020 in Fiesole, on the hills overlooking Florence, Italy. Due to the Covid-19 crisis we had first to postpose the meeting to October and then organise it entirely online.
The spirit of the Autumn Institute was about critical thinking and mutual learning in a multi- disciplinary environment. It encouraged informal sharing and constructive feedback, focusing on participants’ research projects, ideas, and critical and interdisciplinary perspectives around the pivotal applied digital social sciences practices and theories. Of course, being able to do the Institute face to face in a wonderful natural environment would have been ideal, but the through the enthusiasm of the participants we were able to achieve the same objectives also in a virtual environment to a large extent.
The report illustrates some of the main messages from the keynotes and the of key take-aways from the perspective of the Digitranscope project.
To cite this publication:
Scholten, H., Craglia, M., Micheli, M., Calzada, I., Misuraca, G., & Hradec, J. (2020). DigiTranScope Autumn Institute 2020: Governance of Digitally Transformed Societies. Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg. JRC. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26912.20482/2.
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Candel, M., Fritsche, L., Hui, D., Islam, O., Issar, S., Kamwanja, A., Lucy, L., Mueller, R., Piamsawat, N., Riekkinen, V. & Sampson, R.] (2017), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Stockholm, Berlin, Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar, Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast, Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki, & Scotland, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14958.72000/2.
Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, and Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
To cite this book:
Calzada, I. (2021), Smart City Citizenship, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN-10: 0128153008 ISBN-13: 978-0128153000. doi: 10.1016/c2017-0-02973-7.
Further information:
https://www.elsevier.com/books/smart-city-citizenship/calzada/978-0-12-815300-0
https://www.amazon.com/Smart-City-Citizenship-Igor-Calzada-dp-0128153008/dp/0128153008/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1592420565
Calzada examines in this chapter the ways in which the hegemonic approach to the “smart city” is evolving into a new intervention category, called the “experimental city.” While this evolution presents some innovations, mainly regarding how smart citizens will be increasingly considered more as decision makers than data providers, likewise, some underlying issues arise, concerning the hidden side and ethical implications of the techno-politics of data and the urban commons. These issues engage with multi-stakeholders, particularly with the specific Penta Helix framework that brings together private sector, public sector, academia, civic society, and entrepreneurs. These innovations in urban life and its governance will inevitably bring us into debate about new potential models of business and society, concerning, for instance, the particular urban co-operative scheme employed.
To order it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/toc/331966591X/ref=dp_toc?_encoding=UTF8&n=266239
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino and Zachary Walsh Part 1. Transdisciplinary Foundations for Contemporary Social and Economic Transformation.- Chapter 2. In Search of a New Compass in the Great Transition: Towards Co-Designing the Urban Space We Care About.- Vincenzo Mario Bruno Giorgino Chapter 3. Navigating the Great Transition via Postcapitalism and Contemplative Social Sciences.- Zachary Walsh Chapter 4. Having, Being, and the Commons.- Ugo Mattei Chapter 5. Par Cum Pari: The Value System of Commons-Based Peer Production and the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church.- Michel Bauwens Chapter 6. Economics Beyond the Self.- Laszlo Zsolnai Chapter 7. The Koan of the Market.- Julie A. Nelson Chapter 8. Epistemology of Feminist Economics.- Zofia Łapniewska Chapter 9. How to Make What Really Matters Count in Economic Decision-Making: Care, Domestic Violence, Gender Responsive Budgeting, Macroeconomic Policies and Human Rights.- Margunn Bjørnholt Chapter 10. Contemplative Economy and Contemplative Economics: Definitions, Branches and Methodologies.- Xabier Renteria-Uriarte Part 2. Collective Awareness, the Self, and Digital Technologies. Chapter 11. From Smart Cities to Experimental Cities?.- Igor Calzada Chapter 12. First Life: From Maps to Social Networks and Back.- Alessio Antonini, Guido Boella, Alessia Calafiore and Vincenzo Giorgino Chapter 13. The Organic Internet: Building Communications Networks from the Grassroots.- Panayotis Antoniadis Chapter 14. Technocratic Automation and Contemplative Overlays in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing.- Philip Butler Chapter 15. One Bright Byte: Dōgen and the Re-Embodiment of Digital Technologies.- David Casacuberta
This policy report about the 2nd Edition 2016-2017 of the MSC in Global Sustainable Cities, entitled ‘Global Sustainable City-Regions,’ covers the work developed jointly by the lecturer, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, as the editor of the publication and students/participants of the second edition of the MSc from September to December 2016 at the Institute for Future Cities in the Business Faculty at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (Scotland – UK).
Specifically, this policy report follows a two-sequential-module structure:
• The first module, entitled ‘Global Cities: Sustainability and Society,’ consists of six methodological units.
• Thereafter, the second module, entitled ‘Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities,’ consists of five methodological units.
The policy report focuses on three urban global issues in a comparative basis. The MSc was developed in a team-based dynamic by applying qualitative action research methodologies to understand and interpret each case and to benchmark and contrast with other cases that addressed the same global urban issue.
The cases were selected jointly by the lecturer and the students/participants in a dynamic process in order to achieve a suitable selection of cases that would allow them to:
• arrange groups around one specific global urban issue,
• compare cases around the same specific urban issue, and
• produce a full case study by applying the two-sequential-module methodology.
As a result, the following three global urban issues and seven Global Sustainable City-Region case studies were selected. Each student/participant worked on each of them, as follows:
Transformative Smart Cities:
Stockholm (Melissa Candel)
Kolkata (Dalia Hui)
Masdar (Omar Islam)
Bengaluru (Seema Issar)
Seoul (Nattharucha Piamsawat)
Changing Social Innovation:
Berlin (Laura Fritsche)
Belfast (Laetitia Lucy)
Malawi (Akuzike Florence Kamwanja)
Hong Kong (Rebecca Seraphine Mueller)
Helsinki (Venla Riekkinen)
Glasgow (Rhona Morven Sampson)
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The series of editions have been published as follows:
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Abubaker, H., Bensaid, M., Butler, M., Cameron, M., Doin, S., Duke, I., Dutary, R., Fleming-Knox, A.R., & Klinefelter, T.] (2018), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Naples, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, Lyon, Panamá, Kuala-Lumpur, & Silicon Valley, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-5-8. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21794.73922
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Candel, M., Fritsche, L., Hui, D., Islam, O., Issar, S., Kamwanja, A., Lucy, L., Mueller, R., Piamsawat, N., Riekkinen, V. & Sampson, R.] (2017), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Stockholm, Berlin, Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar, Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast, Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki, & Scotland, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14958.72000/2.
Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, and Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
Here is the abstract of his contribution to the book with the Chapter entitled '(Un)Plugging Smart Cities with Urban Transformations [A Critical & Constructive View]:
Dr Calzada argues that the development of the so-called buzzword smart city and its use in planning inner cities are intimately bound to current urban transformations. In an attempt to deconstruct or unplug the buzzword, Part Four shows a wide range of topics order to create not only a critical but also a constructive policy agenda of smartness in cities and regions. The conclusion of Part Four concludes with the necessity to plug stakeholders in by setting up a complex, multi-stakeholder, city–regional urbanity as a way toward real smartness in cities and regions. To plug in, or connect, stakeholders, one should consider the interdependencies among them; the need for democratic mechanisms to manage data; the need to scale up urban solutions to metropolitan and city–regional levels; the intent to provide comparative evidence-based data; and, finally, the tendency to establish not only quantitative but also qualitative rankings and city dashboards that enable adaptability rather than replicability. Part Four is structured in two chapters: Unplugging the Smart Cities (Chapter 12) and Plugging the Smart Cities (Chapter 13). At the end of Chapter 13, Dr Calzada elaborates on future policy implications for smartness in cities and regions: Transitions; Smart Devolution; Multi-stakeholders’ Interdependencies; Big Data; Smart City–Regional and Metropolitan Governance; Benchmarking; and City-Dashboards.
Specifically, this policy report follows a two-sequential-module structure:
• The first module, entitled ‘Global Cities: Sustainability and Society,’ consists of six methodological units.
• Thereafter, the second module, entitled ‘Public Policy, Governance and Strategic Change in Cities,’ consists of five methodological units.
The policy report focuses on three urban global issues in a comparative basis. The MSc was developed in a team-based dynamic by applying qualitative action research methodologies to understand and interpret each case and to benchmark and contrast with other cases that addressed the same global urban issue.
The cases were selected jointly by the lecturer and the students/participants in a dynamic process in order to achieve a suitable selection of cases that would allow them to:
• arrange groups around one specific global urban issue,
• compare cases around the same specific urban issue, and
• produce a full case study by applying the two-sequential-module methodology.
As a result, the following three global urban issues and seven Global Sustainable City-Region case studies were selected. Each student/participant worked on each of them, as follows:
Global Southerners
Mumbai (Kirsten MacDonald)
Shenzhen (Ning Qiu)
Resilient Contradictors
Reykjavik/Iceland (Christopher Dynes)
Portland/Oregon (Gemma Murray)
Budapest (Nikolett Watson-Puskás)
Regional Networkers
Glasgow/Scotland (Gavin McAdam)
Rotterdam/Randstad (Frankie Barrett)
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The series of editions have been published as follows:
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Abubaker, H., Bensaid, M., Butler, M., Cameron, M., Doin, S., Duke, I., Dutary, R., Fleming-Knox, A.R., & Klinefelter, T.] (2018), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Naples, Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, Lyon, Panamá, Kuala-Lumpur, & Silicon Valley, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-5-8. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21794.73922
Calzada, I. (Ed) [Candel, M., Fritsche, L., Hui, D., Islam, O., Issar, S., Kamwanja, A., Lucy, L., Mueller, R., Piamsawat, N., Riekkinen, V. & Sampson, R.] (2017), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Stockholm, Berlin, Kolkata, Abu Dhabi/Masdar, Bengaluru, Malawi, Belfast, Hong Kong, Seoul, Helsinki, & Scotland, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-946385-0-3. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.14958.72000/2.
Calzada I. (Ed) [MacDonald, K., Qiu, N., Dynes, C., Murray, G., Watson-Puskas, N., McAdam, G., & Barrett, F.] (2016), Global Sustainable City-Regions: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Glasgow, and Rotterdam, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing, in collaboration with the City Protocol Society and the Institute for Future Cities, University of Strathclyde. ISBN (e-book): 978-84-942752-7-2. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3053.1609.
Calzada, I. (2015), Conclusion: Towards Basque Political Innovation. Building a Strategic Roadmap, Chapter in the Book Calzada, I. & Bildarratz, J. Political Innovation: Constitutional Change, Self-Government, The Right To Decide & Independence. Donostia, TransLoKal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making – Publishing.
To cite this book:
Calzada, I. (2021), Benchmarking City-Regions, Regions and Cities Series, London and New York: Routledge. ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-138-93258-2 and eISBN: 978-1-138-93258-6 [Forthcoming].
In Europe, milestone changes are taking place in which the right for territories to decide their own future and democratic choices for devolution and independence are becoming issues. This book aims to visualize the Basque Country from the outside, from an international point of view by proposing its real choices and contradictions in a constructive, transformational and entrepreneurial manner.
And what if we were an independent country? What if, starting today, we began to think about independence the very next day and started on a plan of action? That is what PostIndependence is. To that end, the author believes that it is essential that relations with other countries and projects should be bolstered, a place that we would like in the world, to start working on a united strategic action.
More info please contact: [email protected]
To cite this document/presentation:
Calzada, I. (2022). Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R) Reception. California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), October 10, Bakersfield, California: USA. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.28746.85448.
We’re excited to share Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government list below. The list highlights work that’s influenced the policymaking process by providing insights into policy problems, contributing innovative ideas and solutions, or adding relevant and informative data. Each nominee on the list is committed to improving the work of government, and their research has already made an impact. Read on to learn about each person, in their own words.
This year, we recognise academics working in five timely policy areas that are the focus of government work around the world. The areas represent problems being faced by government everywhere, and present an opportunity for intergovernmental collaboration. They are:
Recovery from Covid-19
Employment and skills
Social policy
Climate and sustainability
Policymaking processes and approaches
We also asked public servants to nominate academics working in other areas important to them, and to highlight academic authors who have made an impact on their lives, either by offering a source of inspiration, or helping them choose a career path in government.
To cite this talk:
Scholz, T., O’Brien, D., Spicer, J., Lurie, R., & Calzada, I. (2021), Can Co-operatives Build Worker Power? Platform Co-operativism Consortium RadFest, The New School. 6th April.
To cite this conference: Calzada, I. (2020), Data Ecosystems and Democracy: Techno-Politics in Smart Cities. ‘Building Smart Cities with Citizens and for the Commonweal: A Symposium’, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Plce, University of Liverpool, 9 March, Liverpool (UK). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12350.23361.
Abstract: In this age of the ‘smart city’, municipal leaders must develop and harness a new generation of smart technology – comprising ever more autonomous and intelligent machines guided by ever more complex algorithms, engaging ever greater volumes of granular and real-time data with ever more powerful data analytic artillery – if they are to tackle effectively the most pressing economic, social and environmental problems that face their cities. In lingua formal, the cities which will prosper in future will be those that are most adept at innovating and adopting a constellation of emerging smart technologies predicated upon AI and reflexive autonomous systems/machine learning, digital innovation and the Internet of Things (IoT) (enhanced by 5G and new sensor technologies), and quantum leaps in data infrastructure and capacities. Yet, whilst the idea of the ‘smart city’ is one full of possibility, the ownership, stewardship and deployment of smart technology have equally provided cause for concern and caution. In particular, the origins and development of smart technology within a framework of what Shoshana Zuboff calls ‘surveillance capitalism’ has given rise to technology that it is not only configured primarily to serve the interests of a predatory ‘big other’, but which is also substantially (and manifestly) under-regulated – as highlighted by long-standing concerns over unaccountable corporate monopolies and power, privacy and the security of personal data, (unconscious) bias in algorithms, and digital inequalities and addictions. The problem is not smart technology per se; it is that this technology is being enabled and constrained by a very particular politico-institutional dynamic, a new mode of capital accumulation whose business model is the extraction of value from personal data with little juridical, regulatory or ethical oversight. For Zuboff, surveillance capitalism is propelling smart technology and over-determining its trajectory and in so doing is colonising and compromising other alternative politico-institutional logics. This symposium aims to inform and advance scholarly debates, public conversation and policy development in Liverpool City Region centred upon the performance, perils, and untapped potentialities of embracing further a smart city agenda. We will explore whether and how metropolitan areas can build smart cities – in collaboration with citizens and for citizens. Our core supposition is that to reclaim smart technology for public good, there is a need to interrogate prevailing structures of ownership and stewardship and to better understand how smart technology markets might be rendered subservient to national and local democratic institutions and processes and constituted, disciplined and incentivised (configured (designed), governed (regulated) and performed (enacted ethically)) such that they serve the commonweal. We will explore: Why city leaders need to take public concerns over surveillance capitalism seriously What ‘data sovereignty’ means and why it matters How city leaders might build smart cities with and for local citizens The meaning and implications of principles such as ‘tech for good’ and ‘tech for public good’ for smart city strategies The lessons which can be learned from international examples and experiments in applying smart technology to solve public problems What a citizens-centred ‘Smart Liverpool City Region’ might look like and how we might build same.
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La mitad de los habitantes del mundo viven ya en ciudades. Pero, en este contexto global, ¿cómo debemos construir el futuro de nuestras propias ciudades? Los 'pequeños jugadores' son ciudades y regiones de entre 1-3 Millones de habitantes (Montevideo, Bilbao, Glasgow, Portland, Oresund, Dublin, Curitiba, Brisbane, Cape Town, Randstad,…) que están configurando como una nueva liga de ciudades translokales frente a las ya conocidas ciudades globales se están destacando como ciudades translokales o nuevos 'pequeños jugadores' frente a las conocidas ciudades globales como London, Nueva York o Tokyo.
A Igor le interesa comparar cómo ciudades y regiones innovan socialmente y cómo lo harán en el futuro. Doctorado en innovación política, académico y emprendedor, ha trabajado en gobiernos y grupos empresariales, asesorando en políticas y estrategias para el futuro a ciudades e instituciones. Profesor en los Future of the Cities de las Universidad de Oxford y Glasgow, compara la innovación social en diversas ciudades y regiones del mundo. Hoy realiza un benchmarking de ciudades galardonado por la RSA (Regional Studies Association), Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science), Principe de Asturias y es asesor de políticas para Smart City para la Comisión Europea.
Dr Igor Calzada will present on 4th December in London ‘Unplugging the Smart City’ conference paper in the Future Cities Summit Re·Work as a consequence of the joint research ‘Unplugging > Beyond Hyper-Connected Societies’ funded partially by The Oxford Research Center in Humanities and the article published at the Journal of Urban Technology ‘Unplugging > Deconstructing the Smart City’.
The conference will focus on an overview of the impact of being digitally connected on citizens:
Technology is never neutral as Williams (1983) stated. We should identify critically how to evolve as society and human beings by keeping smartly connected rather than being self-deterministically forced to be hyper-connected. Even though some dark side effects of the technology can be identified (Ippolita, 2008), the conference aims to draw on a critical social innovation pathway as a transition towards alternative digital humanities practices for our daily life. Nevertheless, there are plenty of pending questions about this subtle notion, that the conference will clustered as Unplugging.
According to the Journal of Urban Technology, the article will be available at their website from 8th January 2015.
Social Innovation & Territory:
Future of City-Regions’ challenges.
This lecturing is going to summarize the main conclusions of the City-Region / Euskal Hiria Congress 2012 that was held in Bilbao, Spain, in November 2012, with the participation of the academic Fredrik Björk and the practitioner Ulf Kyrling coming from Oresund to talk about CityRegions. Dr. Calzada will present the main challenges from the Social Innovation approach (Moulaert & Mulgan) in the postcrisis era for any territory. He is carrying out his research as the continuation of his book (you can download it under CreativeCommons3.0 license at the Future of Cities Programme of the University of Oxford (UK) as a PostDoctoral Research Fellow. He also holds the Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science Fellow position.
At this lecture, he will focus his presentation on the CityRegion concept and its real challenges nowadays.
His interest to coming to Malmö quite often (he was in 2011) is due to the open collaboration with the University of Malmö in order to work in the Comparative Territorial Benchmarking project comparing Basque Country and Oresund as City-Regions.
2.- 12th February: 9:00-11:00
Social Innovation & (Social) Entrepreneurship:
Mondragon case.
The Social Innovation notion is quite popular right now. And even more Social Innovation always comes together with Social Entrepreneurship. We are going to ask what is Social Innovation and then we will try to link this with Social Entrepreneurship.
This lecture is going to be based on the recent chapter about “the Mondragon case” of Dr. Calzada in the International Handbook of Social Innovation by Edward Elgar coordinated by Frank Moulaert.
Mondragon case has been really researched in the last two decades as one of the well-known cooperative worldwide experience in the Basque Country, Spain. However, the globalization and the Postcrisis era are changing the dynamics and nature of the Mondragon reality.
Dr. Calzada will highlight 3 key factors from the Social Innovation:
(1) University & Coops interactions in the construction of Communitarian Social Capital: Link between Entrepeneurs & Companies (Bees&Trees Alliances)
Case1: LEINN.
(2) Territory as a source of PostGrowth/PostCrisis Innovation.
Case2: Orona IDEO Innovation City.
(3) Local&Global Communities: GloKal Communities.
Case3: Kunshan (China).
Recently The Guardian has citated his chapter in a broder article about an event that took place in Hub Islington in London.
Territories are built in the healthy usage of the technology in order to allow digital connectivity along its space. It is why is urgent to adapt the current discourse about social networks to the one that is focused on the relevancy of building social capital at the macro and micro level in different way in broadly diverse places.
The seminar touched on several interesting aspects of Dr. Calzada’s PhD work, which examined and compared cases from the Basque country of Spain, Dublin, Ireland, and Portland, USA, involving the redesigning of territories, urban innovation, and transformation models. He was also able to draw many comparisons and similarities between what he is seeing in the Basque country and what is taking place in the Öresund region, particularly in Malmö with the transformation from an industrial to a social innovative mindset.
Throughout the seminar, Dr. Calzada touched on several interesting points, one of which being the importance of understanding a location’s unique qualities when undertaking a socially focused project. Although some aspects of a project may work in various locations, others may have to be adjusted in order to take into account local differences with politics, people, or infrastructures that might affect the project’s overall goals. It is also apparent that once these differences are identified, they could be used as strengths to help the project evolve into something with a sustainable future.
One solution Dr. Calzda suggested, which could ease some of the economic hardships that are currently plaguing the Basque country, and Spain in general, is to take advantage of the resources around them and not to be concerned by certain barriers that often stand in the way of innovation. He cited an example of how the Spanish government is paying to keep an airport open in the region even though it is operating at a loss, and there are other better equipped and easily accessible airports in the region.
There were also many more interesting topics of discussion including the importance of grass roots movements in social innovation, universities’ roles in pushing social innovation, and how trans-local collaborative communities of practices can be one path to urban social innovation.
Thus, our Summer School is conceived as a melting pot of ideas, a laboratory where technology and solidarity intertwine to forge a new social paradigm in relation to AI for social innovation. Therefore, against the backdrop of the global digital geopolitical scene, this Summer School emerges as a beacon of anticipation and avant-garde amidst the disruptive era of AI. The Summer School thus stands as a prototyping laboratory where technology merges with solidarity to reformulate the social fabric. It consists in three blocks with its aims that will be deployed through three action research intertwined methodologies: Keynote Speakers, Workshop, and Lightning Talks.
1. To gather key stakeholders from Wales and the Basque Country
2. To establish a strategic network that may remain over the time.
3. To ultimately outline a potential policy/research agenda on Transdisciplinary Social Sciences stemming from current developments in both small nations through three intertwined territorial scales:
a. MACRO (Devolution): By jointly reflecting on current challenges around territorial political economy.
b. MESO (Urban Transformations): By learning from each other on current developments in Cardiff and Bilbao through SPARK and AS FABRIK flagship urban projects.
c. MICRO (Grassroots Innovations): By identifying grassroots innovations in the territorial ecosystems of both small nations, particularly focusing on digital foundation economy and (data/platform) cooperativism driven by grassroots innovations.
Funded by the Grant Scheme 2022-2023 of The Learned Society of Wales
Chair/Convenor: Dr Igor Calzada, Principal Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, WISERD/SPARK, Cardiff University
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Dr Igor Calzada MBA is a Senior Researcher intersecting digital, urban, and political transformations, particularly researching on digital citizenship, digital rights, data co-operatives, and rescaling nation-states. He has been recently nominated among 100 Most Influential Academics in Government by Apolitical and has published two monographs ‘Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes: Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies’ (Emerald, 2022) and ‘Smart City Citizenship’ (Elsevier, 2021).
Since 2021, he is Senior Researcher at WISERD, (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data) at Cardiff University, School of Social Science, and SPARK (Social Science Research Park).
Dr Calzada's Fulbright teaching, engagement, and research activities will focus on Digitalisation/Datafication as Emerging Digital Citizenship Regimes in Postpandemic Urban Realms. He is really looking forward to actively design the new curriculum of the Institute for Basque Studies, by setting up international networks, meeting key players in California, and resulting in a three-way MoU between Wales, Cardiff University, WISERD/SPARK (UK), Basque Country, Basque Government – Presidency, General Secretary of External Affairs (Spain), and CSUB, Institute for Basque Studies (USA) through the action research project www.hanhemen.eus on digital citizenship and e-diaspora. He hopes his work can contribute understanding and entrepreneurial networks between Wales, Basque Country, and California, and most importantly, bringing positive change in social, institutional, academic, and diasporic communities overall.
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This platform seeks to become the new digital space for the Global Basque Community, and is trying, in real time, to build a new digital model that will rebuild the Basque identity be reducing the distance between “here” and “there”, regardless of where one is looking from while observing the global Basque phenomenon.
For us, and for our point of view, this project is essential for the future existence of the global Basque community. While respecting each group’s individual characteristics and interests, this project is setting up a worldwide, operative, and practical interconnected network that can help all these Basque communities, at home and abroad, to connect, to mutually reinforce one another with experiences and knowledge, and to become stronger.
The HanHemen, Basque Global Network initiative has been set up to listen to the Basque diaspora, and thank to the successful response it’s been getting, they’ve decided to extend the deadline to answer the questionnaire through to March 31.
Those who wish to be a part of this community can get in touch with the HanHemen team to get a copy of the questionnaire and thus take part in the process of getting the Basque diaspora online.
The Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad is working to revitalize the Basque Global Network, just like HanHemen, to connect all Basque citizens in the world, here and there, with each other. That’s why this questionnaire was set up and sent to thousands of people. Given the results, the response from interest groups, and the interest shown by the same, the deadline to hand in the questionnaire has been extended to March 31. And it’s quite simple to do: just get in touch with the HanHemen group, get the questionnaire, and freely and safely express your interests, concerns, and proposals.
All those who fill out the questionnaire will be entered into a drawing for ten HanHemen product kits.
It should also be noted that the responses will be used exclusively by the Directorate for the Basque Community Abroad (which is promoting the project) to help it design HanHemen, and they will be analyzed and shared with the Scientific Directorate and the academic institutions which are handling the research. Moreover, the responses received will be treated with utmost confidentiality and will be subject to the General Regime for the Protection of Data as regards the anonymization of data.
Those actively working with the Basque Diaspora who respond to this brief questionnaire will be directly invited to attend a hybrid virtual and in-person event where the results will be announced. This will be a very special opportunity to get to meet the community, to listen clearly to people like you, and to stay actively connected to the Basque diaspora. Meanwhile, we encourage you ton continue following their social network accounts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) and to share this global digital network with the people closest to you, be they here or there.
Citation: https://t.co/rbz3Wx8owF
SDG 11 has 10 targets to be achieved, and this is being measured with 15 indicators. The seven "outcome targets" include safe and affordable housing, affordable and sustainable transport systems, inclusive and sustainable urbanization, protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, reduction of the adverse effects of natural disasters, reduction of the environmental impacts of cities and to provide access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces. The three "means of achieving" targets include strong national and regional development planning, implementing policies for inclusion, resource efficiency, and disaster risk reduction in supporting the least developed countries in sustainable and resilient building (United Nations, 2017).
Target 11.1: Safe and affordable housing
Target 11.2: Affordable and sustainable transport systems
Target 11.3: Inclusive and sustainable urbanization
Target 11.4: Protect the world's cultural and natural heritage
Target 11.5: Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters
Target 11.6: Reduce the environmental impacts of cities
Target 11.7: Provide access to safe and inclusive green and public spaces
Target 11.a: Strong national and regional development planning
Target 11.b: Implement policies for inclusion, resource efficiency and disaster risk reduction
Target 11.c: Support least developed countries in sustainable and resilient building
Several cities are pursuing a long-term agenda focused on environmental sustainability, social innovation, and digital transformation. Specifically, they plan to develop data platforms to analyze and predict urban, social, and economic impacts of green transformation initiatives. Such agglomerations are defined as smart cities, i.e. a technologically modern urban areas that use different types of electronic methods, voice activation methods and sensors to collect specific data. Information gained from that data are used to manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return, that data is used to improve the operations across the city. This includes data collected from citizens, devices, buildings and assets that is then processed and analyzed to monitor and manage traffic and transportation systems, power plants, utilities, water supply networks, waste, crime detection, information systems, schools, libraries, hospitals, and other community services. A core element of smart city policies is to enable and encourage Public Authorities to use appropriate infrastructures, services, data and methodologies to apply a more evidenced informed approach to policies.
This Research Topic seeks to bring together multidisciplinary and diverse viewpoints and welcomes manuscripts exploring themes including, but not limited to, the following:
- Development of technologies and governance frameworks for the collection, processing and sharing of data within smart cities and with central government
- Policies, action plans and KPIs for social innovation and digital transformation leading to sustainability
Keywords: Smart Cities, UN SDGs, United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals, environmental stability, social innovation, governance framework, sharing of data, central government, digital transformation
We’re excited to share Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government list below. The list highlights work that’s influenced the policymaking process by providing insights into policy problems, contributing innovative ideas and solutions, or adding relevant and informative data. Each nominee on the list is committed to improving the work of government, and their research has already made an impact. Read on to learn about each person, in their own words.
This year, we recognise academics working in five timely policy areas that are the focus of government work around the world. The areas represent problems being faced by government everywhere, and present an opportunity for intergovernmental collaboration. They are:
Recovery from Covid-19
Employment and skills
Social policy
Climate and sustainability
Policymaking processes and approaches
We also asked public servants to nominate academics working in other areas important to them, and to highlight academic authors who have made an impact on their lives, either by offering a source of inspiration, or helping them choose a career path in government.
'Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies'
https://lnkd.in/gk8b5UMg
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By creating the conditions necessary for innovative and interdisciplinary research, as well as offering a creative and generative space in which ideas and knowledge in emerging thematic fields across different scientific and technological disciplines can thrive and flourish, CAS has become an incubator for formal inquiry, stimulating ideas and activities and providing the JRC with new insights, data projections and solutions for the increasingly complex medium and long term challenges facing the EU, especially in the fields of demography, big data and digital transformation.
Through the performance of advanced, cutting edge research, ranging from applied research to topics of a more academic character, all within a stimulating trans- and interdisciplinary environment, CAS allows external researchers and scientists to work together with the JRC to explore and exchange new ideas and knowledge on scientific research in emerging fields of strategic societal importance, which might otherwise fall outside the policy support activities undertaken by the JRC on behalf of the European Commission.
Projects are typically led by a senior scientist with an established reputation in the research area and have a limited duration of a maximum of three years, after which they may be integrated into the JRC's core research activities.
Hosting a variety of leading academics and practitioners in different urban fields, each event showcased some of the latest thinking on some of the most pressing challenges facing European cities today. This edition brings together in one volume the four pieces published by Professor Michael Keith and Dr Igor Calzada on the series, summarising the discussions and drawing out the implications for urban planners, policy makers and businesses today.
https://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/news/2018/4448/
To cite this report as follows: Calzada, I. & Arranz, A. (2017), Zumaia Tourism Plan: ZumaiaLab Tourism LivingLab, Zumaia: Translokal – Academic Entrepreneurship for Policy Making y University of Oxford. ISBN: 978-84-946385-3-4
Description of research:
This project aims to conduct fieldwork research in several rural and remote communities in post-conflict areas in Colombia (Latin America) and newly developed areas in Mozambique (Africa). By doing so, this fieldwork research will provide qualitative insightful data to shape an intervention model entitled ‘Smart Rural Communities’. Ultimately, the project not only aims to revert the Smart-City-Global-North logic in developing countries but also to establish an ad-hoc contextualized version for the rural communities in several strategically-targeted locations of the Global South.
This project is led by the NGO Ayuda en Acción (Aid-in-Action), based in Spain, which will employ and deploy the resulting and strategic outcome internationally among their territorial development areas and branches. Despite the fact that the NGO has been operating internationally with a vision characterized by action-driven international aid, this project will enhance the potential strategy of the NGO by adapting the ‘smart’ use of the ICT, energy, mobility, education, health, gender and governance advancements jointly with a participatory and experimental methodology. Hence, this project envisages an update for the way the NGO Ayuda en Acción operates as an international organization for development and humanitarian aid.
This applied research project consists of three phases: state-of-the-art, fieldwork research, and modelisation. The fieldwork research will be undertaken by using three techniques: visual ethnography, in-depth interviews, and Living Labs in combination with focus groups. This project shows a policy commitment in renewing strategic and operatively the intervention model of the NGO Ayuda en Acción by including ultimately some lessons learnt from the ground for both infrastructure and community capacity building. This project will seek a strategic alignment with some supranational institutions in this field, such as BID (Inter-American Bank for Development – Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo), EU, UN and OECD, among others.
Description of the nature of participants and fieldwork methodology:
In the two aforementioned cases, participants are local residents in rural and remote communities. The research is particularly interested in analysing their perceptions and how their daily life could be improved by scaling up from technological advancements. However, the fieldwork will substantially identify groups of stakeholders in order to examine their mutual inter-dependency in enhancing the community empowerment stemming from opportunities provided by smart strategies and co-operative social economic formation from scratch.
As such, two groups of stakeholders will be given particular consideration alongside the process of intervention: Millennials (young people with highly transformative capacities) and women (emancipating and empowering them in the community’s collective decision-making processes). For the first group of stakeholders, particularly in Colombia, it is remarkably challenging that young entrepreneurs are returning from the cities to their villages after a long period of being absent in their communities, due to the conflict. In Mozambique, the role and the way the project could engage women is intriguing given the agriculture associations run collectively by them. In both cases, there is great potential about the participation of these target groups.
Ultimately, the project attempts to encourage local residents/natives to initiate their own entrepreneurial ideas by being supported with experts and technical professionals. In this endeavour, participants will take part in diverse research activities in their community in reflecting collectively on their present and future living and working conditions overall.
The fieldwork research will be scientifically conducted by the University of Oxford, Urban Transformations ESRC, led by Dr Igor Calzada, MBA and the spin-off TransLoKal. In this process, a group of professionals from Mondragon Co-operatives, such as LKS, Alecop, and Mundukide, among others, will additionally take part, also giving technical advice to the communities in the fields of engineering, education, co-operation and co-operativism.
Workshop Series in Brussels 2016-2017
Announces open registration for the 2nd Workshop that will take place:
Venue: Brussels (Delegation of the Basque Country to the EU)
Date: 13th February 2017, Monday
Agenda: 9:00-16:00
Funded by the ESRC
2nd Workshop Experimenting with Urban Living Labs (ULLs) beyond Smart City-Regions Co-organised in partnership by the University of Oxford – Urban Transformations www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk & VUB – Brussels Centre for Urban Studies www.urbanstudies.brussels
This workshop is the second of the series 'Bridging European Urban Transformations' that the Urban Transformation programme at the University of Oxford and the Vrije Universiteit in Brussel are co-producing in partnership from 2016-2017. This workshop will take place in the delegation of the Basque Regional Government in Brussels.
If you are interested in participating in the workshop please register to the workshop via Evenbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/experimenting-with-urban-living-labs-ulls-beyond-smart-city-regions-tickets-30193233775
Future Cities Catapult is a global centre of excellence for urban innovation and as part of this Collaborative Approach Research & Development work is being delivered to support the UK government Prosperity Fund.
The smart city landscape is broad and complex in nature. And even though there’s an unmistakable need to make urban environments smarter and more liveable, the great majority of cities have to deal with a history of ‘siloed’ approaches, blocking a more integrated and holistic way of approaching urban challenges.
The study commences an explanation and demonstration of the approach taken on how to structure the study and case studies themselves and proceeds to an in-depth review on how both the UK and Brazilian cities such as Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Belfast Sau Paulo, Brasilia and Belo Horizonte have been addressing the smart city theme, by looking into the way they approached the challenge locally.
This research is supported by expert contrast accounts and targeted interviews with key stakeholders in the smart cities arena, to gather insights on methodologies, current practices, and the impact of these approaches in the urban environment.
The final section of the policy explores a fresh new concept of how UK approaches can be applied to
Brazilian Cities and develops a methodology for approaching change.
Successful smart city change programmes must first look to the nature of the recipient city or urban environment to understand the need, issues and opportunities. These are often found in the very essence of the place; its urban culture, nation tradition, heritage, and political landscape as well as any economic drivers/ aspirations, technological capabilities and the dynamics of society itself.
The emphasis on smart cities and technology must be firmly set in the context of the “place”. With this in mind, very rarely will single solutions be found and or developed that can deliver effective change that is applicable to all environments nationally or regionally and therefore a city approach must be adopted.
Smartness must first start with the city not the “smart” and the key objective of smartness must be to foster prosperity. Throughout this policy document these concepts have been critically assessed and developed from first principles into models that define the nature of the thinking and structuring of a successful approach.
The core principles are based on viewing these concepts as “sustainable economic hardware” and “sustainable social software” as often opposing yet critically linked drivers.
The defining output of combining these core principles is that “smartness and prosperity” should be the desired outcome of developing and implementing smart infrastructure strategies not only in Brazil, but in the UK.
To cite this paper:
Calzada, I. (2021), Hyperconnected Diasporas Amidst Pandemic Citizenship: The End of the "Global Citizen"? 31st AEMI Conference, 30th Sept. - 1st Oct., San Sebastián (Spain). doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.17660.87687
Whether we hold dystopian or utopian views of our future wellbeing against this backdrop, supported through today’s technologies, it is likely that trajectories are toward further human adoption and embedding of enabling platforms, sensors, computing and processes that support an internet of things to better measure and manage human impact in the biosphere (Thiele, 2020). This inherent ‘smartness’ in design is already being engineered into our cities, societies, their tourism and its offerings (Calzada, 2019; Buhalis and Michopoulou, 2013; Gretzel et al., 2015). What is missing, is an agreed methodology and approach to establishing what is mission critical at a granular level in the fight against climate change and introducing incentives and mechanisms to bring about shifts in policy that support a reduction in climate challenging behaviours (Xiang and Fesenmaier, 2017). Smart city and smart tourism policies globally has seen ICT infrastructure, urban data hubs and experience design play larger roles in the building of contemporary governance structures with a myriad of solutions being trialled around the world (Calzada, 2020; Shafiee et al., 2019).
Where then, are the most promising of these emerging and more integrated techno-cultural ecosystems which are steered toward meeting the grand challenges of climate renewal and citizen led sustainability practice (Calzada, 2021)? What approaches have been successful in awakening society and co-creating new cultural norms of global citizenry that could be accepted and adapted into wider culture of travel and tourism for the benefit of humanity (Calzada and Arranz, 2017)? What are the behaviours of proactive ‘Citizitors’ in inspiring a global pathway toward a more sustainable human presence on earth? In a short 5 minute presentation, stemming from previous experimentations and research findings in post-violence Basque Country, lessons learnt, and ongoing transferred and project exchange with the Northern Ireland, this paper focus on one of Belfast’s proposed pilot smart city experiences for ‘Citizitors’, a call is made for wider collaboration through IFITT toward building a database of emerging smart tourism and smart cities solutions that are showing promise in meeting the global imperative of climate renewal and more sustainable living.
The Institute was originally planned to take place in May 2020 in Fiesole, on the hills overlooking Florence, Italy. Due to the Covid-19 crisis we had first to postpose the meeting to October and then organise it entirely online.
The spirit of the Autumn Institute was about critical thinking and mutual learning in a multi- disciplinary environment. It encouraged informal sharing and constructive feedback, focusing on participants’ research projects, ideas, and critical and interdisciplinary perspectives around the pivotal applied digital social sciences practices and theories. Of course, being able to do the Institute face to face in a wonderful natural environment would have been ideal, but the through the enthusiasm of the participants we were able to achieve the same objectives also in a virtual environment to a large extent.
The draft report attached [final version coming soon] illustrates some of the main messages from the keynotes and the of key take-aways from the perspective of the Digitranscope project.
Governance of Digitally Transformed Societies
Fiesole (Florence), Italy
11-15 May 2020
Call for Abstracts
A damaged environment, a diminished cultural community could undermine European regional tourism in the future Those facts evidence that tourism has played a part in causing the problems we are facing today while at the same time having the potential to significantly contribute to solutions.
The tourism players – tourists, tourism businesses, but also governments promoting tourism development –therefore have a responsibility to do no harm and to ensure that people, the environment, and the climate are not negatively affected.
Another Tourism is Needed!
This Conference therefore aims to open up a reassessment of the process of tourism policy and planning. We are seeking, among other things, for a critical (re)examination of tourism development models, we want to consider how the increasing focus on sustainability might shape future tourism planning and policy making.
https://www.igorcalzada.com/panelist-on-tourism-and-transformation-roundtable-in-st-sebastian-basque-country-spain3/
While the efficiency of this policy shift may have generated positive outcomes and some good practices, within the medium and long term these strategies may have also contributed to generate centripetal forces revealed through devolution claims that
generate political struggles between more advanced and innovative city-regions and their respective central governments. More competitive and innovative city-regions may request more competences and strengthen devolution schemes specially in times of economic downturn.
The objective of this paper is twofold and addresses the following research questions: Do higher levels of devolution contribute to boost innovation and competitiveness at regional level? And, do higher performances in innovation and competitiveness accentuate the tensions between regions and central governments in times of economic downturn by claiming deeper devolution schemes? To assess these two questions the paper focuses on comparing the following city-regions: Basque Country, Catalonia, Rogaland, Bolzano, Lombardy, Bayern and Zurich.
Deadline for abstract submission: 26 May 2017
Conference Theme: Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, Smart Living
The Visitor Economy: Strategies and Innovations Conference
4th-6th September 2017
Bournemouth University
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2016), (Un)Plugging Smart Cities Transformations and Strategies in Europe, Harvard University whitepaper contribution provided on 13th October at 2016 Strategic Innovation Summit: Smart Cities Europe held by the Dublin City Council and the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University in Dublin, Maynooth University. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34524.80000
To cite this piece:
Calzada, I. (2017), 'White Paper on the Geographies of the Basque Country: A Scientific Countribution in a Participatory Setting in a Post-Violence Political Momentum', working paper delivered on 14th January 2017 in St Sebastian on the Basque Studies Society, Eusko Ikaskuntza event.
To cite this article:
Calzada, I. (2021), Book review: Smart City Citizenship. Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs 5(1): 145-150. DOI: 10.25034/ijcua.2021.v5n1-7.
Calzada, I. (2020) [Review of the book Smart City Barcelona: The Catalan Quest to Improve Future Urban Living, by A. Vives]. International Journal of Iberian Studies 33(1): 103-104. DOI: 10.1386/ijis_00018_5.
To access the review:
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/ijis/2020/00000033/00000001/art00012