The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities

  1. Calzada, Igor 12
  1. 1 Cardiff University
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    Cardiff University

    Cardiff, Reino Unido

    ROR https://ror.org/03kk7td41

  2. 2 University of Oxford
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    University of Oxford

    Oxford, Reino Unido

    ROR https://ror.org/052gg0110

Libro:
Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development

ISBN: 9783036541747 9783036541730

Año de publicación: 2022

Páginas: 27-54

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.3390/BOOKS978-3-0365-4174-7 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Objetivos de desarrollo sostenible

Resumen

New data-driven technologies in global cities have yielded potential but also have intensified techno-political concerns. Consequently, in recent years, several declarations/manifestos have emerged across the world claiming to protect citizens’ digital rights. In 2018, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and NYC city councils formed the Cities’ Coalition for Digital Rights (CCDR), an international alliance of global People-Centered Smart Cities—currently encompassing 49 cities worldwide—to promote citizens’ digital rights on a global scale. People-centered smart cities programme is the strategic flagship programme by UN-Habitat that explicitly advocates the CCDR as an institutionally innovative and strategic city-network to attain policy experimentation and sustainable urban development. Against this backdrop and being inspired by the popular quote by Hannah Arendt on “the right to have rights”, this article aims to explore what “digital rights” may currently mean within a sample consisting of 13 CCDR global people-centered smart cities: Barcelona, Amsterdam, NYC, Long Beach, Toronto, Porto, London, Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, Portland, San Antonio, and Glasgow. Particularly, this article examines the (i) understanding and the (ii) prioritisation of digital rights in 13 cities through a semi-structured questionnaire by gathering 13 CCDR city representatives/strategists’ responses. These preliminary findings reveal not only distinct strategies but also common policy patterns.