Data and the City

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Study based on 20 interviews in four cities (500k–1M residents) shows concrete friction: a parks database is withheld to protect municipal gardening contracts, a contractor-held pothole log blocks third-party reporting, and a realtime transit feed spawns a Windows widget with 10,000+ installations that effectively DoS’s the authority’s site. Three GPS cycling apps fail to influence planning, and a procured parking app forces 25 releases vs 2 releases for different clients. Authors call this big little data.

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1. 0:00Introduction and research context
2. 1:51Data and power in the city
3. 5:02Challenges of open data
4. 8:19Citizen-generated data struggles
5. 11:34Bureaucracy and regulation impact
6. 13:43Big little data concept
7. 15:13Q&A session

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