Citizens want to participate in getting more human "intelligent cities"
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According to a report from CEAPAT-IMSERSO and Fundación Empresa y Sociedad
Citizens want to participate in getting more
human “intelligent cities”
• While politicians and great companies associate smart city to digital city,
citizens do it to a friendly and accesible city.
• That´s the conclusión after interviewing 20 experts, and polling almost 500
members of the Empresa y Sociedad Opinion Forum and the Post 55
(www.post55.es) Social Network.
• The polled people claim for a more active participation in an area normally
kept for large companies and political responsible.
• It´s a matter of evolving from a public-private collaboration, to a public-
private one brought by citizenship.
• Design for future citizens, needs to take special account of the elderly and
handicapped people.
Madrid, 10 June 2013
CEAPAT-IMSERSO (www.ceapat.es) and Fundación Empresa y Sociedad
(www.empresaysociedad.org) have presented today the report “Intelligent,
accesible and friendly environments”. It summarizes the work carried out after
interviewing 20 experts, and nearly 500 members of the Empresa y Sociedad
Opinión Forum and Post55 social network (www.post55.es).
While experts identify the “intelligent environment” concept (city, urban space,
building and home) with the “digital city” one; citizens think of accesible areas,
environmentally friendly, with an integrated transport system and a reduction in
energy consumption . In other words, with a more friendly, sustainable and human
environment .
According to the report, the evolution of cities will be based on technological
changes, which are faster and deeper than physical ones. New business models
whose challenge will be to avoid social exclusion due to technical or economical
reasons, will appear.
Future environments´design, should take into account citizens´opinion, specially
from the elderly and the handicapped who aren´t yet integrated in the current
public-private teams. The boost to citizens participation needs to clarify the
intelligent space concept and to do a basic pedagogy so that users`opinion is taken
into account from the start and their active participation even promoted.
According to Francisco Abad, founder of Fundación Empresa y Sociedad “the people
we´ve asked, claim for more protagonism in ideas-generation and decisions-taking
as now the players are almost exclusively big companies and political responsibles.
There are already forums where people can collaborate. from the formally existing
ones to facilitate public participation to the associations for the aged, the
handicapped , or the citizens´laboratories, the latter ones are frequent in various
large city councils”. These groups are usually part of the working teams in
1initiatives related to friendly cities for the elderly, or with accessibility and
mobility-related iniciatives, but not so much to those related to the “smartcities”
initiatives“
The report has been presented in easy to access, under creativecommons licence
PDF format, to facilitate its spread.
It can be downloaded from www.empresaysociedad.org and from www.ceapat.es
About the report´s authors
Ceapat-IMSERSO
www.ceapat.es
The mission of the State´s Reference Center of Personal Autonomy and Technical
Aids (Ceapat) is to contribute to make effective the rights of the aged or the
handicapped through full accessibility, support products and technologies, and
design made for all the people.
Empresa y Sociedad Foundation
www.empresaysociedad.org
Open group promoted by business people having social concerns, and committed to
generate relevant changes among the less favoured people. It does so by network
working, shared social projects and collaborative work with people and
organisations to promote ideas and long lasting proposals.
The Foundation grows thanks to Friends of empresa y sociedad, who are of
four types:
− Friends club,
club Formed by people interested in supporting the Foundation´s
global project.
− Friend companies,
companies Formed by companies interested in the Foundation´s
growth who use its associative services.
− Opinion Forum,
Forum Formed by people sharing the Foundation´s project who are
committed to participate in the polls which are the base of the Foundation´s
reflections and proposals.
− Friend media
media, media which are committed to spread the Foundation´s
activities.
More information
Estela Fernández
Opticae´s Secretary
Orense 29, 6ª / 28020 Madrid / T 91 435 89 97
em efernandez@empresaysociedad.org
2TABLES
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How would you rate the importance that these subjects SHOULD
HAVE, in the design of future smart environments?
(five subjects with the highest rate)
Source: Fundación Empresa y Sociedad Opinion Forum (321 members). Average (puntuations from 1 to 10).
(five subjects with highest punctuations )
Source: Post 55 (www.post55.es) Opinion Forum (137 members). Average (puntuations from 1 to 10).
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3About the influence of social trends
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What do you think will be the most influential social trends on
the favorable evolution of smart environments in the medium
term?
Source: Fundación Empresa y Sociedad Opinion Forum (321 members). Average (puntuations from 1 to 10).
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4About the opinions of different social groups
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How much importance, do you think the opinions of the following
groups should have in the design of future smart spaces?
Source: Panel of 137 members of the Post 55 (www.post55.es) Opinion Forum. Average (puntuations from 1 to
10).
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