1. Civic Technologies - Tools or Therapy? Dietmar Offenhuber, PhD Northeastern University 2. Gregor Aisch, 2011 3. Popular Epidemiology A Civic Action - John Travolta (1999) Brown, Phil. 1987. Popular Epidemiology: Community Response to Toxic Waste- Induced Disease in Woburn, Massachusetts. Science, Technology, & Human Values 12 (3/4): 7885. 4. Grassroots Science Public Lab, Brooklyn NY. Balloon Mapping of the Gowanus Canal. Photo Josh Weinstein 5. The Rise of the Expert Amateur (E. Paulos) Pieter Franken, Safecast 6. The monitorial citizen: civic technologies 7. BigGov has become irrelevant in the public sector, eclipsed by someone with a supercomputer in their pocket, open source hardware and software at their fingertips, and a global community of like-minded geniuses at their beck and call: YOU. Ed Borden 8. there are some things that can only be accomplished at scale [] For better or worse, governments are among the few actors capable of operating at the necessary scale to accomplish things like that; they're certainly the only ones that are, even in principle, fully democratically accountable Adam Greenfield 9. Algorithmic Governance and private infrastructure In this future scenario, the roads on which Jen is driving will have also become autonomous actors, doing trades with the car on TradeNet. They can submit bids to the car about how much they're going to charge to use them. If she's in a hurry, Jen can choose a road that's a bit more expensive but which will allow her to get into the city faster. Awesome, right? Mike Hearn, Bitcoin Developer, about the future of public infrastructure 10. Are civic technologies scientific? activist? libertarian? deliberative? 11. The idea of citizen participation is a little like eating spinach: no one is against it in principle because it is good for you. Sherry R. Arnstein. 1969. A Ladder of Citizen Participation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners 35 (4): 21624. 12. Participation as compliance 13. Participation as feedback 14. Urban Entropy (2015), Dietmar Offenhuber, Ars Electronica Center 15. Participation as monitoring Trash | Track, Senseable City Lab, 2009 - 11 16. Trash | Track, Senseable City Lab, 2009 - 11 17. Items reported from this facility between Oct. 22 and Nov. 8. some objects for several days. 18. Participation as co-governance Forage Tracking - Senseable City Lab COOPAMARE facility in downtown So Paulo 19. Truck collection vs. manual collection Blue = truck routes Orange / red = manual collector routes 20. Too much traffic (public busses) Too much traffic, distance, lack of material Steep hills Steep hills Steep hills Many shops 21. Participatory design workshop at Coopamare 22. Is participation always a positive value? 23. Incrementalism Busy-ness is a handy method of maintaining the status quo yet is simultaneously active, optimistic, and often makes people feel better. Samantha MacBride. 2011. Recycling Reconsidered (p. 6). MIT Press. 24. Individualization of responsibility Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? Michael Maniates 25. Participation as a burden 26. Ambient Accountability Dieter Zinnbauer, Transparency International Know Your Rights Mural Hunts Point, NY 27. Ambient Accountability Inflatable Union Rats - informal pressure through naming and shaming (Hossain 2010) 28. A new form of accountability - focus on outcomes rather than process (Goldsmith & Crawford 2014). Jan Banning, Bueraucratics 29. Dietmar Offenhuber d.offenhuber@neu.edu offenhuber.net Discussed examples from these books: Offenhuber, Dietmar, and Katja Schechtner, eds. 2012. Inscribing a Square: Urban Data as Public Space. Vienna, New York: Springer. Offenhuber, Dietmar, and Katja Schechtner, eds. 2013. Accountability Technologies - Tools for Asking Hard Questions. Vienna: Ambra V. Offenhuber, Dietmar, and Carlo Ratti. 2014. Decoding the City: Urbanism in the Age of Big Data. Basel: Birkhauser.