Most cities are faced with the same challenge: how to reduce pollution, congestion and CO2 emissions. In the last decade, hundreds of billions of dollars has been invested in EV companies, new charging infrastructure, mobility startups, shared last-mile solutions and public transport. Despite these efforts, cities are still polluted and congested and 2018 was a record year for CO2 emissions. There is consensus that MaaS (Mobility as a Service) is the answer cities are looking for because it swaps car use for a range of mobility offerings paid for, located and booked through a smartphone. While the concept is simple the reality of making it happen is far from it. Ross Douglas will explain why public transport authorities need to step in now and take ownership of their cities’ MaaS platform.

Every city would like to be able to celebrate a vibrant and inclusive culture of civic participation. In pursuit of this goal, local government practitioners can turn to an increasing number of new technologies which arrive with the promise that such a future is in reach. But if collaborative and data-driven formats are needed to reap the benefits associated with becoming a truly smart city, what does this look like in practice? Michael Woodbridge from the global nonprofit NewCities will share leading examples of citizen-sourced data initiatives and strategies for activating all social groups and promoting equal opportunity in participation.

Smart Citizen game – Ekim Tan & Txell Blanco

Play the City design physical games that interpret, generate and manage data used to plan our cities. Changing the way we engage stakeholders, these games are an effective tool for collaborative decision making and conflict resolution.

During the workshop at Prague City Data Congress we will look at an existing Play the City game called “Smart Citizen game”, once played at the city of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Exchanging our knowledge of games with such a community of data experts might lead us to identify how “Smart Citizen game” could be implemented in Prague. Which area should the game focus on? Which specific sets of data are relevant to the challenges of that specific area? And who are the key stakeholders? At the end of the workshop we will determine how to translate this data into a game to be played.

In this workshop, Tanaquil Arduin, Chief Data Officer of the City of The Hague, addresses the cities data strategy and the importance of open data for a data-driven organization. She explores the development of open data within the municipality, the way open data is managed and used and will present inspiring showcases that create added value for the Hague, its constituents, visitors and businesses.

"Interactive cities" was an Urbact Program, which enabled the exchange between 10 European cities. The methodological collaboration and transfer of achievements let us summarize the key elements of digitalization in the urban area.

"Digital Cities" workshop we will talk about the beneficiaries of urban digitalization.

What can be achieved? With which methods? And whom can it benefit? What is the social added value?

After the short presentation of international examples, we will discuss with the participants their challenges and opportunities. How do the participants engage with the community and how do they address sustainability.

Blockchain applied to smart cities will promote scalability and synergies. Blockchain is a versatile and programmable platform, that is collaborative, transparent, and unchangeable and allows, through a verification system, the proof of the authenticity of each transaction. 

During the workshop at the Prague City Data Congress 2019, we will look at several practical applications of blockchain in smart cities, by presenting an integrated model between different activity sectors in the smart cities. With all these facilitators, we can successfully build solutions that go hand in hand with Prague’s priorities.

Driving Futures – Ira Winder

During a workshop, we will discuss and simulate various possible futures where variable levels of autonomy and sharing technologies effect vehicle coompsition and parking utilization. Participants will learn about and use simulation software designed by MIT Researcher Ira Winder. No prior experience required. Please bring your laptop with you!

https://github.com/irawinder/DrivingFutures

How to Ingest, Process, Catalog, Share and Analyze Data with the PDND Platform?

In this workshop Andrea and Maria aim to demonstrate the main functionalities of PDND in a live session, addressing a couple of use cases and scenarios.

https://dataportal.daf.teamdigitale.it

In this workshop, Evelien and Evert aim to share with you how they have used input from a variety of stakeholders including citizens, policymakers and ITS professionals to develop a neutral multi-modal mobility platform for small to medium-sized cities worldwide. They will share what challenges were encountered so far and the strategy for tackling these issues heads on in a collaborative way. 

The general objective is to present the strategy that the city of Lisbon has for the data, whether they are open or not. There will be a discussion about Lisbon Intelligent Management Platform that today integrates dozens of different data sources (including real-time data) and provides a DataHub where the data is shared safely.

In the end, João Tremoceiro will address how the city is working to develop analytics (Data Shop and Lisbon Urban Data Lab), and the challenges they face for the future through an open discussion with the participants.