1 Smart cities and the politics of urban data
Technocratic governance is government under the data and suitable algorithms control. Those solutions created by algorithms should be always the best choice. In such cases will we lost control by algorithms? In the end those algorithms might destroy democracy?
Those concerns about smart city data most of them are already existing, there is an issue about data neutrality. Such as carbon dioxide rate, it used to believed carbon dioxide is main reason causing global warming, will in recent research shows that aren’t. data at our present perceive could be total different and might leading to serious problems.
2 Digital Infrastructures—-Jennifer Gabrys
The program earth as techno-geographies it easily confuse with GIS geographic information system. The GIS system also is a data collector testing bed which help making better decision and improved communication, but GIS is more likely a data recording. Should we use the sensing to track huge environment data? The environment seems like an invariable data model, which only change tiny in a decade.