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1. Human Ecosystems
from conflict to co-existence in contemporary cities
Salvatore Iaconesi & Oriana Persico
human-ecosystems.com ubiquitouscommons.org

2. “DATA IS IN THE AIR”
Ubiquitous Data

15. [Human Ecosystems]

16. IMPLICIT / EXPLICIT
PUBLIC / PRIVATE / INTIMATE / ?
CONSCIOUS / UNCONSCIOUS
FORMAL / INFORMAL
government
administration
bureaucracy
transactions
…
micro-histories

17. CURRENT DATA SCENARIO
nothing to say about:
micro-histories, informality, implicit, unconscious
(and a little bit of conscious, too)

18. why should we be interested in this kind of data?
why are Facebook, Google, NSA, Brand X, instead, interested in it?
and: do people even know/are interested about this data?

19. “SENSIBLE PEOPLE”
Citizens as sensors

20. what happens when
PEOPLE BECOME SENSORS

21. let’s make an example

22. POSTED ON FACEBOOK

23. PUBLISHES PICTURE
OF VACATION AT THE BEACH
I am relaxing
at the beach
for my friends
and connections
can afford to
go on vacation
likes beach X
is in place Y
likes the beach
likes to sit on chairs
in the waves
is overweight:
risks for health
company X marketers employer, insurance
WHAT:
FOR WHO:

24. other scenarios

25. the bus is late

26. I’m worried about my
job

27. I like my school

29. “DATA AS COMMONS”
Data, information and knowledge in the Human Ecosystem of the city

41. What can we learn from CYBERSYN?
• The power of design and imaginary
• The power of visualizations
• The power of real-time information
• The power of transdiscipliaries approach
• The limits of top-down strategies and bureaucratized processes
• People, with their daily life and microhistories, are not part of the equation
• OpenData are prerequisite
• Not much has changed in how we imagine our smart cities!

44. from CONTROL ROOM to the REAL-TIME MUSEUM OF THE CITY

58. UBIQUITOUS COMMONS”
the commons for ubiquitous information

59. THE SCENARIO
• we generate massive amounts of
information, through network
connected devices

60. PROBLEM
• we have no way to understand what
information we generate
• we have no way to understand how
this information is used (directly and
indirectly)
• we have no possibility to express how
we want our information to be used
• we have no constructive way to build
collaborative initiatives using all of this
information

61. HYPOTHESIS
• create a peer-to-peer protocol
• (and, hence, ecosystem)
• which hosts our expression about
intended usage of information, and
• which hosts the access mechanism
to our data/information

62. UBIQUITOUS COMMONS
http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org

63. CURRENT SCENARIO

64. note: scenario is shown for social networks, but also works for IoT, wearables and network connected devices

65. A LEGAL / TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLKIT

66. NEW SCENARIO

68. OUTCOMES

69. DATA-SUBJECTS CHOOSE
FOR THE INFORMATION THEY
PUBLISH/GENERATE

70. “LICENSE” BECOMES POLYMORPHIC
BY CREATING NEW IDEA OF
IDENTITY

72. IDENTITY GENERATED USING
RELATIONAL AND TRUST
BASED MECHANISM
(HIGH QUALITY RELATIONAL ECOSYSTEM)

73. “LICENSE” CREATED BY
ATTRIBUTING DATA/INFO
TO CERTAIN IDENTITIES

74. LICENSE DISTRIBUTED ONTO THE
BLOCKCHAIN

75. THE ENTIRE BLOCKCHAIN VERIFIES
ACCESS

76. TRANSACTIONS ARE LIKE MICRO-
CONTRACTS: FULLY TRACEABLE
AND TRANSPARENT

77. COMMUNITIES/ORGS/PEOPLE CAN CREATE
LICENSES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, BY
CREATING
THEIR IDENTITIES

78. OPENS UP MULTIPLE TYPES OF
ECONOMIES

79. NEXT STEPS

80. CREATE ADOPTION CASES

81. MOVE TO FIRMWARE OF
IOT AND NETWORK CONNECTED
DEVICES

82. UBIQUITOUS COMMONS
http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org