What is Brighton? Peter Passaro

Dr. Peter Passaro - peter@datai.st - @theDataist Research Fellow for Social and Civic Data Science

WHAT IS BRIGHTON?

BRIGHTON?

Building Better Futures

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts! Robert A. Heinlein

©Rob  Webb  Photography  

What if We Had the God’s Eye (Data) View of Brighton?

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE  

BRIGHTON DATA  

We should own it

It should be accessible to everybody here

Should it be accessible to

everybody else?

©Rob  Webb  Photography  

A platform for creating the world I want to live in

A place where anything is

possible

The potential to be the best example of an innovation

environment anywhere in the world

THIS CITY IS:

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE, GLOBAL IMPACT  

OUR FUTURE IS URBAN  

WHAT ARE WE UP TO? •  Building an Academic Programme in Social

and Civic Data Science •  Encouraging Cities and Towns to be

Participatory Experiments In Better Living •  Building Platforms that Enable Citizens to

Create Better Urban Information Architectures and Systems

•  Save the Date: 18-20 Sept 2015 CITY DATA HACKATHON