Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data and its products to generate
value in new disruptive markets. Within these markets vast streams of data are often
inaccessible or untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this exclusive use
of data is a promising world-wide open-data movement promoting freely accessible information
to share reuse and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has enormous
potential to transform exclusive technocratic smart cities into inclusive and responsive
open-cities.This book argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its
production. Like the city itself the information landscape is a public asset produced through
collective effort attention and resources. People produce data through their engagement with
the city creating digital footprints through social medial mobility applications and city
sensors. By opening up data there is potential to generate greater value by supporting
unforeseen collaborations spontaneous urban innovations and solutions and improved
decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities is made challenging by conflicting
desires for urban anonymity sociability privacy and transparency. This book engages with
these issues through a variety of critical perspectives and presents strategies tools and
case studies that enable this transformation.
