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beyond the technical components. More importantly citizen co-creation in the smart

city is driven by implementation which consists of open innovation procurement,
projects on open data and interoperability, urban innovation hubs and living labs as

well as policy reform towards regulation as enabler or accelerators.

He concluded his presentation by sharing two books entitled “Citizen’s Right to the
Digital City” and “Digital Participation through Social Living Labs: Valuing Local

Knowledge, Enhancing Engagement, where both books was co-authored by the
speaker.

Question & Answer

Dr. Sulaiman: How can the government ensure the privacy of their citizens when it

comes to open data that is being used?

Answer : Referring to Brazil scenario, smart cities implementation is a top-

down approach which lacks transparency and accountability. There
is no access of information by the citizens and citizens do not know

what is going on with the data used by the government. It boils down to

what extent the government wants to make it realistic. A second option
would be to have a hybrid model, where government made it clear that

the openly shared data is used by the government for the
benefit of agencies and the citizens. As citizens, they would be happy

to release some level of their privacy just like the case of the home
electricity monitoring system. The citizens are okay with the

government knowing about how much they use energy for each of

their electrical appliances if that would have meant they can also
access the same data from their loved ones. Privacy will continue to be

an important topic because of the exciting development in the technology
space that will bring some change about trust, security, risk-taking and

its mediation.

Dr. Halimahtun: How do you get citizens to understand and appreciate what smart
cities and innovation entails because some may not necessarily have

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