Joint Doctorate in Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities
Short Description
GEOTEC is one of three partners organising the Joint Doctorate “Geoinformatics: Enabling Open Cities (GEO-C)”, funded under the EU Marie Curie International Training Networks (ITN) program, European Joint Doctorates (EJD). GEO-C aims to contribute methods and tools to realise smart and open cities, in which all groups of society can participate on all levels and benefit in many ways. Complementary strands of research in GEO-C (participation, data analysis & fusion, services) will lead to an improved understanding of how to build open cities and will produce a prototypical open city toolkit. With a budget of over 3’5 million EURO, Geo-C provides 15 Phd students (5 in Spain, 5 in Portugal, 5 in Germany) the opportunity to do research and advance the state of the art in smart and open cities.
GEOTEC’s contribution
The main contribution is the Open City Toolkit (OCT), that it is envisioned as an integrated, open source software empowering citizens, providing them with analytical tools and citizen-centric services in the context of a smart city. It is incorporating the results of the various research lines within the GEO-C phd students. It is designed to keep all the resulting resources (i.e., data, processes, services, guidelines, standards, ontologies, and models) along with utilities, tools and applications that make use of these resources
Publications
Gould, Michael Mobile apps for behavioural modification encouraging green living Inproceedings In: City Expo World Congress 2016, Barcelona, 2016. @inproceedings{Gould2016, title = {Mobile apps for behavioural modification encouraging green living}, author = {Michael Gould}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-03-17}, booktitle = {City Expo World Congress 2016}, address = {Barcelona}, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {inproceedings} } |
Degbelo, Auriol; Granell-Canut, Carlos; Trilles-Oliver, Sergio; Bhattacharya, Devanjan; Casteleyn, Sven; Kray, Christian Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience Journal Article In: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 5 (2), pp. 16, 2016, ISSN: 2220-9964, (IF: 0.371 - 49/49 (Q4) Geography, physical 0.371 - 29/29 (Q4) Remote Sensing ). @article{Degbelo2016, title = {Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience}, author = {Auriol Degbelo and Carlos Granell-Canut and Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Devanjan Bhattacharya and Sven Casteleyn and Christian Kray}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/159507}, doi = {10.3390/ijgi5020016}, issn = {2220-9964}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-01-01}, journal = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information}, volume = {5}, number = {2}, pages = {16}, abstract = {The holy grail of smart cities is an integrated, sustainable approach to improve the efficiency of the city's operations and the quality of life of citizens. At the heart of this vision is the citizen, who is the primary beneficiary of smart city initiatives, either directly or indirectly. Despite the recent surge of research and smart cities initiatives in practice, there are still a number of challenges to overcome in realizing this vision. This position paper points out six citizen-related challenges: the engagement of citizens, the improvement of citizens' data literacy, the pairing of quantitative and qualitative data, the need for open standards, the development of personal services, and the development of persuasive interfaces. The article furthermore advocates the use of methods and techniques from GIScience to tackle these challenges, and presents the concept of an Open City Toolkit as a way of transferring insights and solutions from GIScience to smart cities.}, note = {IF: 0.371 - 49/49 (Q4) Geography, physical 0.371 - 29/29 (Q4) Remote Sensing }, keywords = {}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } The holy grail of smart cities is an integrated, sustainable approach to improve the efficiency of the city's operations and the quality of life of citizens. At the heart of this vision is the citizen, who is the primary beneficiary of smart city initiatives, either directly or indirectly. Despite the recent surge of research and smart cities initiatives in practice, there are still a number of challenges to overcome in realizing this vision. This position paper points out six citizen-related challenges: the engagement of citizens, the improvement of citizens' data literacy, the pairing of quantitative and qualitative data, the need for open standards, the development of personal services, and the development of persuasive interfaces. The article furthermore advocates the use of methods and techniques from GIScience to tackle these challenges, and presents the concept of an Open City Toolkit as a way of transferring insights and solutions from GIScience to smart cities. |
Technical contact: Sergi Trilles (strilles@uji.es)
IP: Joaquín Huerta (huerta@uji.es)
Website: http://geo-c.eu/