Expert-Amateurs and Smart Citizens: How Digitalization Reconfigures Lima’s Water Infrastructure

How will city infrastructure and sensors be made smart?

Smart Cities MOOC: Teaching citizens how to co-create smart cities

There is increasing recognition that the ICT4S community needs to take a role in both developing education and conducting research on how to educate people in using ICT to make urban areas more sustainable. In this paper we explore the question how can a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) be used to engage citizens in learning about smart cities and teach them how to co-create a smart cities pro...

Smart Beetles: towards a Geogame for Smart Citizens

Smart cities make use of information technologies to improve performance and quality of urban services, to decrease costs and to optimize resources. However, many citizens do not know all the services and advantages that a smart city offers to them. In this work, we created a geogame to involve them in different cities and, by playing with real services, increase their knowledge about smart cit...

Tackling the digitalization challenge: how to benefit from digitalization in practice

Digitalization has been identified as one of the major trends changing society and business. Digitalization causes changes for companies due to the adoption of digital technologies in the organization or in the operation environment. This paper discusses digitalization from the viewpoint of diverse case studies carried out to collect data from several companies, and a literature study to comple...

Turbulence for (and By) Amateurs

4. Series of lectures on statistical turbulence written for amateurs but not experts. Elementary aspects and problems of turbulence in two and three dimensional Navier-Stokes equation are introduced. A few properties of scalar turbulence and transport phenomena in turbulent flows are described. Kraichnan’s model of passive advection is discussed a bit more precisely. Part 1: Approaching turbule...