Associate Professor of Geography, University of Calgary
I am Associate Professor in University of Calgary’s Department of Geography, a Fellow with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation's National AI Research Institutes. My research interests are in the social, institutional, and urban transformations of big and open data, smart cities, digital humanitarianism, and related digital spatial phenomena. My research program interrogates the social and institutional struggles around knowledge production emerging in the context of these new spatial-technological developments.
Why Canada's Smart Cities Challenge is missing the mark
Dec 04, 2023 12:33 pm UTC| Technology Business
The Canadian federal government launched the Smart Cities Challenge in 2017 to award up to $50 million to municipal governments that are best able to leverage technology to improve life in their cities. The challenge is...