Empowering Citizen-Oriented Smart City Innovation in Mexico (ECOSCIM)

“智慧城市”一词目前在世界各地被用来谈论城市的未来。它可以代表很多不同的东西。但这通常意味着使用数字技术来帮助更有效地管理城市。例如，这种技术可以帮助管理交通流量或污染。智慧城市创新可以是高效的城市管理，但它也可以为公民参与城市治理开辟新的机会。目前，关于智慧城市服务于谁的利益，以及应该服务于谁的利益，存在着争论。有没有人处于不利地位或被聪明的城市化所排斥？如果是这样，我们如何才能阻止这种情况发生？智慧城市创新花了太多时间关注管理和工程挑战-让技术发挥作用-而没有足够的时间思考智慧城市化可能会把我们带到哪里。我们需要更多地考虑日益依赖数字技术所带来的机遇、风险和脆弱性。该项目将开发一种新方法，以帮助智慧城市创新进程。它将通过与墨西哥城的公民、社区团体和决策者合作来做到这一点。该项目力求确保创新面向公民的优先事项和利益：发展进程应具有前瞻性、综合性、包容性和公平性。该项目还将研究智慧城市项目需要与之互动的社会和政治组织和机构，以了解这种更广泛的背景如何发挥作用，以实现或挫败以公民为导向的项目。该项目将通过研究智慧城市发展的各个阶段来实现其目标：预期和概念;开发和实施;以及运营。它将对墨西哥城计划和正在实施的现有项目进行个案研究。这将有助于我们了解，首先，这些项目的规划过程如何符合我们的新框架，其次，它们的运作方式是否具有包容性和社会公平性。该项目将采访智慧城市项目的用户和非用户以及参与运营项目的人员。我们的研究人员还将采访参与智慧城市政策和实践的不同行业的人士，以了解墨西哥城有效创新的障碍和推动因素。然后，我们将与市民一起讨论他们希望智慧城市的未来是什么样子。这将通过一系列研讨会来实现。这些研讨会将引领智慧城市的发展进程：我们将与一小部分市民合作，共同创造新的智慧城市创新概念。研究的最后部分将讨论这一新创新的想法，沿着有关创新的障碍和推动因素的信息，与政策制定者一起探讨如何改变整个系统，使其更欢迎以公民为导向的创新。该项目的每个阶段都将编写一份报告和一份简短的简报文件。这些资料将通过项目网站提供。我们将发布更新我们从项目中学到的东西，因为我们沿着。在项目结束时，我们将编写一份报告，概述整个项目并撰写学术文章。最后，我们将利用从项目中获得的所有知识，共同开发一个工具包，帮助市民和社区思考与智慧城市相关的问题，并帮助他们更有效地开展智慧城市创新过程，该项目将有助于促进墨西哥的公民福利和有效的城市治理。特别是，它对共同创造和包容的强调将加强公民的自主权和福祉。它将通过借鉴布里斯托在智慧城市研究和实践方面的独特优势来实现这一目标，布里斯托尔在这一领域拥有国际优秀研究的记录。

The term "Smart City" is currently used all over the world to talk about urban futures. It can mean lots of different things. But it often means using digital technologies to help manage cities more efficiently. For example, this type of technology can help manage traffic flows or pollution. Smart City innovation can be about efficient city management, but it can also open up new opportunities for citizens to participate in the governance of their cities.There is currently a debate about whose interests are served by the Smart City, and whose interests should be served. Are there people who are disadvantaged or excluded by smart urbanism? If so, then how can we stop that from happening? Smart City innovation spends too much time focusing on management and engineering challenges - getting the technology to work - and not enough time thinking about where smart urbanism might be taking us. We need to think more about the opportunities, risks and vulnerabilities created by increasing reliance on digital technology.This project will develop a new method to help the Smart City innovation process. It will do this by working with citizens, community groups and policy makers in Mexico City. The project is seeking to make sure that innovation is oriented towards citizens' priorities and interests: the development process should be forward-looking, integrated, inclusive and equitable. The project will also examine the social and political organisations and institutions that Smart City projects need to interact with in order to understand how this broader context can act to enable or frustrate citizen-oriented projects.The project will achieve its objectives by looking at the stages of Smart City development: anticipation and conception; development and implementation; and operation. It will carry out case studies of existing projects planned and in operation in Mexico City. These will help us understand, first, how the planning process for these projects measures up against our new framework and, second, whether the way they operate is inclusive and socially equitable. The project will interview users and non-users of the Smart City projects and those involved in running the projects. Our researchers will also interview people from different sectors who are involved in Smart City policy and practice to understand the barriers and enablers to effective innovation in Mexico City. We will then work with citizens to discuss what they would like Smart City futures to look like. This will be done through a series of workshops. These workshops will lead to a process of Smart City development: we will work with a smaller group of citizens to co-create the concept for a new Smart City innovation. The final part of the research will discuss this idea for a new innovation, along with the information about barriers and enablers to innovation, with policy makers to see how the whole system might be changed to make it more welcoming to citizen-oriented innovation. Each stage of the project will produce a report and a short briefing document. These will be made available through the project website. We will publish updates on what we are learning from the project as we go along. At the end of the project we will produce a report giving an overview of the whole project and write academic articles. Finally, we will use all the learning from the project to collaboratively produce a toolkit designed to help citizens and communities think about the issues associated with Smart Cities and to help them carry out a more effective process of Smart City innovation.The project will help to promote citizen welfare and effective urban governance in Mexico. In particular, its emphasis on co-creation and inclusion will enhance citizen autonomy and well-being. It will do so by drawing on the unique combination of strengths in Smart City research and practice in Bristol, which has a track record of internationally excellent research in this field.