{"id":2161,"date":"2015-10-25T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T23:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2016-01-14T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:49:07","slug":"smart-citizens-populating-smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/smart-citizens-populating-smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Citizens &#8211; Populating Smart Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently\u00a0been thinking a lot about the advances we are seeing in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. The impact on everyones&#8217; lives will be significant and I believe &#8211; this\u00a0evolves as one of my ongoing themes &#8211; that human-centric design will be of the utmost importance in ensuring that the outcomes from this will be accepted and embraced, which I am convinced constitutes one of the most important building blocks in ensuring\u00a0the efficacy of the technologies we are building.<\/p>\n<p>I was given the opportunity to speak about this recently at the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotshifts.com\">IoT Shifts<\/a> conference in Barcelona. The following are my slides from that talk. As usual, they are quite visual (which presumably made Slideshare choose them as their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/hirsch30\/smart-citizens-populating-smart-cities-iotshifts\">Top Presentation of the Day<\/a>&#8220;), so please feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/contact-me\/\">get in touch<\/a> should you require more context from me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Smart Citizens - Populating Smart Cities \/ IoTShifts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/9sBCmBhcBmoyBw\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/hirsch30\/smart-citizens-populating-smart-cities-iotshifts\" title=\"Smart Citizens - Populating Smart Cities \/ IoTShifts\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Citizens &#8211; Populating Smart Cities \/ IoTShifts<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/hirsch30\" target=\"_blank\">Volker Hirsch<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently\u00a0been thinking a lot about the advances we are seeing in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. 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