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DEMOCRACY, ACCOUNTABILITY, CITIZENSHIP IN MY WORKS 2022-2018

I am studying Tech Governance since 1992 and focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) since 2018. I am heavily  introducing the axis of poli...

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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

DIRECCIONES EN NUESTRA INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE IDEAS Y PODER: TECNOLOGIA, INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, SOSTENIBILIDAD Y CIUDADES, EN UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE

Para aquellos que están aceptando el reto de trabajar en temas relacionados con ideas, poder, tecnología y regulación, en los cursos sobre ideas y poder en la Universidad Complutense y en los trabajos fin de grado, fin de master y de doctorado, he preparado los siguientes recursos a los que tienen acceso completo a través de los enlaces. 

En este momento dirijo trabajos sobre...
  • Participación política en democracias
  • Regulacion de la tecnología y la inteligencia artificial en democracias y no democracias 
  • Ideas y objetivos del milenio en las ciudades 
  • Ideas y naturación de ciudades
  • Ideas y políticas de sostenibilidad en ciudades del mediterráneo
  • Tendencias filosóficas -y aplicadas- en la China actual
  • Ideas y Madrid Nuevo Norte
  • Ideas democráticas y los instrumentos de rating que influyen sobre la marcha política de las democracias
Insisto mucho en la aplicación práctica y profesional de los trabajos que los estudiantes realicen bajo mi dirección, no sólo en una buena teoría.

Estos son recursos básicos que voy actualizando de acuerdo con los intereses que me van indicando.
  1. Informe de la consultora McKinsey sobre Inteligencia artificial: "Notes from the AI frontier, applying AI for social good" (52 pags) 
  2. Pew Report sobre Artificial intelligence (+100 pags)
  3. Digital strategy, the four fights you have to win, enlace (9 pags)
  4. Africa´s overlooked business revolution, enlace (11 pags)
  5. Visualizing the studies on smart cities in the past two decades: a two-dimensional perspective. M Li - Scientometrics, 2019 "Smart cities have become a very popular topic in transdisciplinary discourses and in academic research during the past decades, especially since 2013, and there has been rapid growth in the number of publications highly related to smart cities in Web..."
  6. Towards Smart Sustainable Cities: A Review of the Role Digital Citizen Participation Could Play in Advancing Social Sustainability. I Bouzguenda, C Alalouch, N Fava - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2019 "Emphasizes that the role of ICT in the social sustainability of smart cities is particularly salient. • Explores … sustainability. • Expands our understanding on how ICT can contribute to the creation of more-than-human smart cities"
  7. Developing Smart City: Based on the Assessment of Smart Projects in Medium-Size Cities, Vietnam. KHV Bach, SK Kim - American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering. 2019 "… the trend of smart city/urban construction will be inevitable [24]. To promote the construction and developing smart cities, in the framework of APEC …"
Ciudades, ideas y poder. El discurso sobre la inteligencia en las ciudades


Foro en el que he participado con expertos de todo el mundo, con la esponsorización de la Fundación para la Innovación Bankinter, y donde se han determinado posibles areas de trabajo presente y futuro en las ciudades







  • El libro de casos comparados de ciudades inteligentes, útil para los que compararán ciudades, que incluye un modelo teórico, un capítulo con foco en la participación ciudadana o su ausencia en los siguientes casos: Shangái, Iskandar, ciudades en Japón, Nueva York, Amsterdam, Málaga, Tarragona y Santander. Accesible y descargable en este enlace
  • Un artículo que compara plataformas de participación ciudadana en 13 ciudades o países, útil para los que compararán plataformas en ciudades, visible en este enlace.
  • Un artículo que versa sobre la participación ciudadana en las ciudades inteligentes y el nivel de engagement en las ciudades inteligentes, que puede ser útil para las comparativas que están haciendo de partidos en Italia y España, y que pueden descargar aquí
  • El informe ciudades disrruptivas de Fundación para la Innovación Bankinter, en el que ha colaborado, y que es descargable en este enlace.






  • El artículo que explica la nueva alianza de la Organización para las Naciones Unidas y de todas sus agencias con las ciudades, que puede copiar a su drive desde este enlace, y en la web de la Fundación, que cuenta con información adicional [enlace].

  • Muchas gracias por el interés en el debate teórico que subyace relacionado con el poder y las ideas políticas y los temas que tratan. Agradezco todas las sugerencias de posibles fuentes que podemos tener en cuenta en los comentarios a esta entrada de blog.

    Monday, 19 March 2018

    Smart Citizens, Shaping Future Cities #FTFCities _ XXX Future Trends Forum, under the aegis of Fundación para la Innovación Bankinter

    This year I have the pleasure to participate under the aegis of Fundación Bankinter, in the XXX Future Trends Forum, focused on cities. Three people, Marce, Chistopher, and Juan Luis  among others, have been able to put together an impressive team of talented people making path-breaking contributions on cities: “Smart Citizens, Shaping Future Cities” that will be held on May 30th-June 1st, 2018, in Sintra, Portugal.

    What is Future Trends Forum?

    "El Future Trends Forum es el único think tank multidisciplinar e internacional focalizado en innovación. Formado por más de 400 expertos, el Future Trends Forum anticipa y detecta las tendencias de innovación, analizando su impacto en la sociedad y modelos de negocio...Todo el contenido generado por cada tendencia se publica en nuestra página web, y es difundido a través de las conferencias celebradas por todo el país, con el principal objetivo de anticiparnos al futuro y potenciar la innovación en nuestra sociedad."




    These people will be among those enlightening the conversation in this year session on cities as for March 17th:

    Gordon Feller, who led Cisco’s partnership with San Francisco and is the Founder of http://meetingoftheminds.org, focused on urban sustainability. USA
    Peter Hirsberg, a Principal in the Maker City Project and Founder of the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. USA
    Evan Wolff, a Partner at Crowell and Moring leading their Cybersecurity group. USA
    William Haseltine, a pioneer in DNA sequencing whose Foundation is developing models for distributed health care delivery. USA
    John de Yonge, Insights Director at Ernst & Young’s think tank EYQ, focused on innovation ecologies in second tier cities. USA
    Natalia de Esteban, Head of Innovation at Transport for London, UK
    Olga Gil, Researcher in Smart Cities at University Complutense de Madrid. Spain
    Antonio Damasio*, David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy at USC and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute, USA
    Tan Chin Nam*, Former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Manpower; Chairman, National Computer Board; and Managing Director, Economic Development Board, Singapore
    Jens Schulte-Bockham*, Chief Operating Officer, MTN Telecom Group, South Africa
    Stephen Trachtenburg*, President Emeritus, George Washington University, USA
    Charles Bolden*, Former Administrator of  NASA, USA


    Previous to the elaboration programm we were able to hold a trasatlantic over-the-phone meeting where suggestions where shared regarding two questions: 1) experts and 2) general themes related to cities. I shared on this discussion and further messages my work on the regulation of data in cities and other levels of government at Facultad de Ciencias Políticas in Universidad Complutense. This work is concerned with power, ethics, governance, future trends and theoretical implications. I teach on this subject at UCM. Here you my find an intro.


    This work crosses streams of research with other works carried out by members of the Smart Cities and Smart Government Research-Practice Consortium (SCSGRPC), of the Center for Technology in Government (University at Albany), directed by Theresa Pardo.


    On the corporate side we will be able to learn and debate with people such as Mariola Pina, previous Head for Smart Cities at Hitachi, with actual expertise in Germany, Hawai, London, Manchester, and cities in Japan. I look forward to meet them all!

    Tuesday, 4 April 2017

    The Rise of Digital Media Platforms. Upholding the Smart City?

    On April 20th I am participating at IJEPR 2017 II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on 'URBAN e-PLANNING' LISBON with a research work entitled The Rise of Digital Media Platforms. Upholding the Smart City? The Conference is organized by Carlos Nunes Silva, professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal. This is the link to the II International Conference 'Urban e-Planning' site. Dr. Nunes is also editor of the International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR)

    Do check the presentation and add to comments on the blog if you please:


    The work on The Rise of Digital Media Platforms. Upholding the Smart City? argues that the development of networks to listen, interact, and put in touch people and firms with policies pose new challenges and opportunities for the social sciences. My analysis relies on the comparative method, in order to understand the specificities of the different cases. The work outlines novel changes in the ways of interaction among stakeholders, policy makers and eventual policies. The new forms of interaction between the political level and society through active listening are analyzed by focusing on the following aspects: 1) The paradigm shift and practical examples 2) the focus on rethinking politics with citizens through active listening; 3) limitations of these listening platforms; and 4) lessons for our applied research backpack.

    Findings show that networks are allowing new and growing business opportunities. Networks are also allowing new opportunities to create value for citizens and social groups that were previously excluded from the use of goods and also services. From a philosophical and normative level these networks also imply new capacities to change the mode of interaction between the State and society. Findings also show two challenges to tackle: 1) the first is how to communicate the changes and reach all social groups. 2) The second challenge is how to benefit the whole society.