{"id":1326,"date":"2014-10-07T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2014-10-07T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:01:07","slug":"smart-slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1326","title":{"rendered":"Smart Slums?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-Kibera-Slum.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1328\" alt=\"1-Kibera Slum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-Kibera-Slum.jpeg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-Kibera-Slum.jpeg 1280w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-Kibera-Slum-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-Kibera-Slum-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-Kibera-Slum-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our very own Dr\u00a0Dan McQuillan has written an article for the Guardian&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/series\/cities-in-development\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Cities in development<\/a>\u00a0series about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovum.com\/slums-must-form-part-of-the-smart-city-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">discussion around &#8216;Smart Slums&#8217;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article raises important questions around\u00a0some of the negative impacts of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information_and_communication_technologies_for_development\">ICT4D<\/a>; and that a push for &#8216;smart slums&#8217; could be appropriated for social justice.<\/p>\n<p>This in-depth article talks through alternative approaches currently being tested through &#8216;bottom-up citizen science&#8217; which\u00a0involve &#8216;citizens in using embedded sensor technology to answer their own questions about their environments.&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-style: normal;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development-professionals-network\/2014\/oct\/06\/smart-slums-smart-city-kenya-mapping\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gold.ac.uk\/computing\/staff\/d-mcquillan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about Dan and his research interests here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danmcquillan\">@danmcquillan<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-text=\"'Smart Slums?' 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This in-depth article talks through alternative approaches currently being tested &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smart Slums?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[110,106,107],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}