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The Future Fix Podcast: Who governs the Smart City?

October 23, 2019 | By Spacing Radio

Spacing and Evergreen proudly present The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada, a special podcast series.

It’s easy to be excited by the promise of new technology, and bold, transformative “smart city” projects. Often that promise is made by companies who offer to pull municipalities into the future, at a speed that leaves local government and leadership behind.
 
But Pamela Robinson, director of Ryerson’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, and Future Cities Canada Fellow, says local government still has a role to play in smart city projects.
 
And Jonathan Dewar, executive director of the First Nations Informations Governance Centre, says there’s a price to pay when marginalized communities don’t have access to the data being collected about them, or any say in how it’s gathered.

The Future Fix is a partnership between Spacing and Evergreen for the Community Solutions Network: a program of Future Cities Canada. As the program lead, Evergreen is working with Open North and partners to help communities of all sizes across Canada navigate the smart cities landscape. The Community Solutions Network is supported with funding provided by Infrastructure Canada.

Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or SoundCloud, or follow our RSS feed.

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