News from the Centre for BOLD Cities | January 2022
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28 1 2022

Minor Smart and SHARED Cities successfully concluded for this study year

This month, students of the BOLD Cities minor Smart and SHARED Cities, presented their project results after several weeks of hard work. Although the meeting was online, the project groups were able to show their exciting presentations with a lot of enthusiasm.

The presentations covered a wide spectrum of innovations in an urban environment, including diverse topics such as drones, delivery robots, e-scooters, smart roofs, inclusive building projects, augmented reality in a public environment, health policies and technological pilots in cities. Although this may seem to be a collection of technological projects, in fact the emphasis in the projects was on exploring acceptance among and inclusion of various stakeholders, but also on the logic of legitimization during innovation processes, for example. In fact, this last module of the minor focuses on the combination of technological innovations, with social, institutional, business model and ecosystem innovations. It is this mix that ultimately determines the success of innovation efforts.
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New BOLD Cities research teams: Urban Dialogues and Urban Digital Twins
BOLD Cities researchers came together in October of last year to collectively design two new research projects. In a day-long pressure cooker of ideas, knowledge and approaches, colleagues from our three universities proposed two interdisciplinary themes that directly speak to the mission of BOLD Cities. 

The project Urban Dialogues is focused on the outcomes and impact of citizen science in the BOLD Cities region. The project about Urban Digital Twins (3D data-based representations of the city, as are currently developed and used in Rotterdam and The Hague) asks how inclusive these are for the diversity of people, experiences, and politics in the city. 
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Talk by Prof. dr. van Zoonen at the 'Data Dagen 2021'
Last October 27th, Prof. dr. Liesbet van Zoonen, academic director at the Centre for BOLD Cities, gave a talk at the 'Data Dagen 2021' to data professionals of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management.

Van Zoonen presented a shortened version of the working paper on 'Public values of Public Conflict' and explored the notion of 'contestability by design' that will play an important role in the upcoming research projects of the Centre for BOLD Cities about urban digital twins. 
Find the working paper at the right of this article.

Watch or download the video (in Dutch) of the talk here.
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New Minor Research Project: Robot Rosie

Robot Rosie is a pilot of 6 months. This self-driving robot will deliver groceries at the Erasmus University Rotterdam / campus Woudestein to employees, students and residents at the campus. The pilot is aimed at exploring the acceptance and acceptability by campus users as well as applications and potential business models for different stakeholders of the use of such robots in the public environment. The project consists of 2 phases: the first 3 months with Robot Rosie 1. In the second phase another robot just like Rosie will be added to the delivery service pilot.
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Publications
On September 17th, our Centre for BOLD Cities executive board member Prof. dr. ing. Klievink held his inaugural lecture about how data and digitalization change the government. The lecture is now online available.

The paper 'Privacy concerns in smart cities' by Prof. dr. Liesbet van Zoonen, academic director at the LDE Centre for BOLD Cities, is awarded with a certificate by Government Information Quarterly.  It is among the top 10 most downloaded papers for in 2021, out of all the papers published in the journal’s history. Read the article here.
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New Working Papers on Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities website 
At our website, you will find new working papers by members of our academic community. Written for various purposes and in cooperation with multiple institutions, the Centre for BOLD Cities' working papers provide insights into the different topics that our affiliated researchers in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities are working on.
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