Empoderamiento ciudadano
About this event :
Smart Cities which empower citizens
Do Smart cities empower us to design our city or do we have to wait until elections in order to be asked how we want our city to be designed? That is the question we addressed in this event.
The talk (19:00-19:30)
We started the event showing the TED talk (in english with spanish subtitles) from Alessandra Orofino. In her talk, Alessandra claims that people feel excluded from politics. She explains us how it is possible to change that, to convert a city into a smart one using a mix of tech and old-fashioned human connection. Technology can empower us so that we stop being ignored by politicians in their own city. Sharing examples from her hometown of Rio, she says: “It is up to us to decide whether we want schools or parking lots, recycling projects or construction sites, cars or buses, loneliness or solidarity.”
And Barcelona? (19:45-20:15)
Then, we talked about examples we have here in Barcelona and which empower us to decide over the design of our city. Ricard Espelt from apps4citizens , a real expert in this field, presented us various initiatives and tools.
The tools which exist here in Barcelona right now for us are:
Go-Innovació: Platform offered by the city council to propose ideas to change the city of Barcelona.
Citycise: Portal to propose ideas to improve the city, vote and comment. (private initiative)
Smart Citizen: Citizens report incidents and crowd-monitor various environmental indicators.
El teu parlament: Control and transparency of parlament’s activity.
L’H Ben Net: Citizens can report urban incidents to the city council.
Vincles: Social network to improve the social situation of lonely elderly people.
We Go BCN: Activity plans according to your interests.
Soon to be realized:
Valora BCN: Citizens inform about the costs of urban space in Barcelona.
The discussion (20:15-20:30)
Afterwards, and moderated by Ricard Espelt we had an interesting discussion about smart cities, the future of democracy and the power technology gives us. All attendees could ask questions and express their opinions, contributing thus to our discussion.
Networking (20:30-21:30)
As always, after the discussion we had the possibility to do networking enjoying drinks and tapas for all (included in the ticket price).
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About TEDxBarcelonaSalon
At our TEDxBarcelonaSalon events we foster networking, dialog and the discussion among all members of TEDxBarcelona. In order to achieve this we meet once a month and listen to an interesting talk. After watching the talk we discuss about the presented subject. Here the list of past Salon events.
Attending
- José Cruset
- Omar Perez
- MARTHA GARCIA GONZALEZ
- Isabel Cervantes García de la Cruz
- MARGARIDA RECASENS MESTRE
- Angela Herrera
- Cristina Guardiola
- Nuria Ramirez Sole
- Alicia Martínez
- David Vives_1
- Patricia Mateo
- Jaume Via
- Gloria Bonafonte
- Andrey Megrikyan
- Concepción Pozuelo Lucio
- Ruben Garcia Tamayo
- Anna Moreno Tarragó
- Farah Shaqadan
- Luis Marcos
- Anna Queralt Fuentes
- Lara Bonet Reina
- Aina Viladot Miró
- Sergey Moskovskikh
- Vanesa Troccoli
- Marc Péridis
- Estela Samyak
- Caroline Sandtorv
- Marina Zvidrina
- Rosemarie Garcia
- Anna Westholm
- Adriana Freitas
- Stephanie Horel
- Alexandra Sentis
- Isabel Aquino
- Harilaos Vasiliadis
- Suzanne Furlan
- Ana Viñals Rioja
- Oscar Al Castillo Balleza
- Luis Aceña Valverde
- Yess Padilla
- Pere Molina
- Aprendiendo Campa as Intermon
- Josep Lluis Cano
- anna guanter
- Jose Barragan Alvarez_1
- Maite Robles
- frank moeller
- Merce Isern Gausí
- Juan Miguel López González
- Edgar Sanchez
- Marc Gonzalez
- Albert Martinez Pellicer
- Pau Josa
- Miguel Benavent de B. Puig
- Julia Bosse
- Francisco Vega Gonzalez
- Ferran Pall s
- Tania Martinez Iñiguez
- Lidia Ledo
- Irene Eleta
- Dominica Perez Losada
- Gabi Masfarr Pint
- Maria Via i Gimenez
- Carolina Arenas Rudans
- Valdemar Schnake Rudans
- Prithika Tully
- Dani Castillo
- Luca Stucchi
- michele benericetti
- JUDIT BEA
- Alba Lozano
- Alexandre De jesus
- Marc Peridis
- milo De Prieto
- Aitor gonzález Pastor
- Paco Briseño
- Marc Busquets
- Sergio López
- Anna Maria Kochanska
- Kadri R
- Alejandra Bara Mas-Bagà
- Jay Libove
- Rodrigo Barahona
- bianca custodio
- Susana Barona Julián
- Falk Wiemer
- Andrea Arrieta
- Antonia Ogallar
- Guillem Orpinell Diaz
- Maria Albes Blanco
- Ines Labarta
- Eugènia Guarro Borrell
- Albert Batlle
- Albert Luengo
- tahir ozturk
- Virginie R
- Ingrid Verhee
- Jose Carlos Corral
- Joanna Parlinska
- Bàrbara Teixidó Byrne
- Kiko Rul·lan
- Peter Cyrus
- Carlos Bort
- Oriol Humet
- diana Moret
- Yulia Ermakova
- Xabier Artázcoz García
- Pol Olivella Rosell
- Pablo Navarrete
- Irina Tarasenko
- Mónica Bonafonte
- Michael Gottron
- ione ruete diaz
- David Vives
- João Lopes Marcelo
- Mandana Partovi
- Emilio Gutiérrez
- Elia Hernando
- David Rojas Rueda
- Pedro Paulo Leão Teles