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hello um 10 years ago you probably heard
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all these statistics saying that by
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2030 70% of the human population are
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going to live in cities this created a
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perfect opportunity for very very big bu
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word to imerge the idea of the smart
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city so what is the idea of the Smart
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City
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basically if we have so much people
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living in in cities how are we going to
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manage the resources how are we going to
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manage scar resources in a way that they
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enable us to to meet our needs day to
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day and this of course created an
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opportunity for technology companies to
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come up and say hey I can deploy my iot
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solution and my big data Technologies to
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solve all of these issues now who
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issues issues who will benefit
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who issues who will address the concerns
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of
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who if you go on Google Map and on
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Google actually and type Smart City and
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do a a Google search you might come up
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with this sort of really shiny beautiful
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built environment pictures where there's
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some something really really interesting
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they are no
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humans smart cities have been incredibly
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criticized for having failed to deliver
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value to society as a whole they have
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been criticized for not being inclusive
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for delivering value to the big
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corporations that deploy the
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Technologies for relying heavily on
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proprietary assets that means
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technologies that were not open source
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and data that were kept in hands of
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companies also so they were criticized
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because they didn't look
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at the fact that citizens often lack the
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technical skills to make sense of urban
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data and to use these Technologies so
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how were citizens going to ever be
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empowered with these technologies that
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they didn't understand or they couldn't
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use moreover they were criticized
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because we failed at producing policy
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that protected citizens in terms of data
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surveillance data ownership and so
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on the good news news and particularly a
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good news for us is that now we have a
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new wave of smart city
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deployments and this is good for us
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because this new wave of smart City
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approaches understand that sharing and
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the commons are very strong drivers for
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citizen Innovation take the case of soul
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in South Korea for example that is
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trying to address its most pressing
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Urban issue by fostering the emergence
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of a local sharing economy and embedding
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sharing practices at schools at B at
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businesses and neighborhoods and the co-
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City model in Bologna where they are
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trying to Foster the appropriation of
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the city in hands of citizens that can
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sign agreements with the city C Council
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to develop and nurture Urban Commons
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that will create Urban capital for
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everybody in the
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city under Fab city model Amsterdam has
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recently become a Fab city the idea is
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that through personal digital
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manufacturing manufacturing citizens can
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citizens uh and cities can move from a
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product in trash out model into a data
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in data out model where cities are
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likely to become more self-sufficient
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and produce less trash and be more
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sustainable there's one thing in common
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among this diversity of new of new
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approaches towards Smart
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City the fact that they recognize the
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citizens right to contribute while in
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the Smart City 1.0 the citizen was a
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mere user or consumer of Technologies or
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its participation was limited as in
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using fix my street and Reporting
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potholes in these new models the citizen
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has the right to contribute to its City
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the citizen is not just a user but it's
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an actual genuine creative autonomous
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agent that can take ownership and the
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responsibility for building cities that
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are more inclusive and that solve issues
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that people really care about let me
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give you an example of how cities are
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leveraging the contributive powers of
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citizens to affect positive change and
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become really smart we are working with
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Bristol in what is called the Bristol
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approach we have realized that to really
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engage citizens at the Grassroots level
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to change the the way cities work and
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address real issues we needed a
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framework this Noble framework allows us
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to First not start with Technologies but
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start with issues identifying issues
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that people really care about so that we
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make sure that the program delivers
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value to its citizens and not just to
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technology companies and city councils
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after identifying the issues we move on
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to another phase which is the co-design
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of the Technologies and the data
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structures that are going to empower
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users and stakeholders to
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collaboratively address those issues
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then we will move onto the orchestration
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the deployment phase where we don't only
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deploy the technologies that have been
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co-created by citizens but also the
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skills that are relevant to citizens to
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take ownership of these tools schols and
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make sense of their
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cities the end goal of using this novel
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framework is to produce a city
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Commons a resource environment with open
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Technologies and knowledge that will
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Empower any other community that is
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facing the same issues to appropriate
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these tools and affect change so in the
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activation phase of the Briel approach
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we worked with communities to identify
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issues that were relevant to them and
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guess what we identified that a lot of
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people in Bristol cared about something
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that had never been addressed by any
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Smart City program and that is the
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problem of dump let me tell you that
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dump humidity is not just something that
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looks ugly in the wall of your house
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dump has been Associated to respiratory
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disease to allergies and asthma it's a
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social stigma because people who have
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dump are scared of talking about this
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and it's also been Associated to um fuel
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poverty because people who have dump at
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home spend more energy trying to make
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their homes warm so something that seem
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to be very tiny actually is pretty
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huge over a number of workshops we have
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collaborated with communities at the
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Grassroots level to create a data uh
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comp mon to solve the issue of dump and
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the idea is to not only create the
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tools if you see there is a little frog
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there you see it this is a humidity and
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temperature sensor that has been
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co-created by citizens in Bristol and
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can be Borrowed by citizens to deploy it
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at home and reveal whether they have
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dump issues or not and they have not
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only created this open Source tools but
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they're also putting together a Commons
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a data platform that not only Maps the
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issue of dump in the city but you also
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add other layers of open data that can
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help us understand how big the problem
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is for example Health Data that allows
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us to see how dump correlates to health
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also allows for researchers to come on
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board and start studying how this
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problem is affecting population it also
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geocat the plumbers and the people who
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can quickly solve the problem of dump so
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the citizens have a quick way of
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addressing this it also create
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opportunities for the city council to
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evaluate how the problem
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evolves the idea is that collaboratively
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they will create a set of assets to
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contribute to the solution of this
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problem this new model could be applied
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to any any other issue that engages
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citizens and the interesting thing is
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that focusing on the creation of a city
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common we can create a more inclusive
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and co-designed
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Society we can create tools that are
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open source and KN how that can be
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appropriated by any other community
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facing similar issues this leads to a
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new form of citizen participation that
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embeds agency ownership and
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responsibility in the context of the
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city and the most interesting thing is
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that Bristol is not only going to be
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solving the problem of dump in Bristol
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it will be solving this problem of dump
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for you and for you because the truth is
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that between 10 and 50% of the city the
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houses in Europe have
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dump by doing this by sharing the
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citizen build solution to dump Bristol
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is ladies and gentlemen becoming a
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contributive city a new type of city
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that collaborates with citizens to
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co-create the open-source Solutions and
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the knowledge that is required for us
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all to tackle our own issues most
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interestingly by creating Commons that
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can be easily appropriated we are more
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likely to Foster Innovation at the grass
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level
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and allow people to appropriate these
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Solutions and create their own which
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means that as a result we'll have an
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enhanced ecosystem of solutions that are
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more suitable to everybody
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so while the Smart City
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1.0 was looking at how technology could
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help us manage
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scarcity the contributive city has a new
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approach it's about understanding how we
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can co-create abundance imagine how
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amazing it would be if all cities became
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contributive cities created Commons that
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can be shared across cities and evidence
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on how to deploy them so that we
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collaboratively can tackle those Urban
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issues that companies and government are
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really unlikely to tackle by themselves
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thank you very much
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thank you very much Mar
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