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White-hat hackers ride into town

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Bob Bennett, a former chief innovation officer for Kansas City, Missouri illustrated a common problem for cities undertaking smart-city projects — and how white-hat hackers can be a priceless complement.

They got off to a fast start. Bennett says it took just three days to develop the idea to develop its smart city and street car corridor concurrently. It took a little longer to develop the technical requirements, about three months. Then came the agreements with Sprint and Cisco for data usage, data collection, where to share the data, and who to share it with. That took nine months.

That’s a common story among people involved with “smart city” projects.… Read the rest “White-hat hackers ride into town”

Take data from ethereal to grounded

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A few days ago, I told former Tableau CMO Elissa Fink why I found “smart cities” more interesting than the data industry’s tired old slogan “data driven.” Cities are complex and layered. Analytics has results, good or bad. Data becomes tangible, satisfying.

She got it. “‘Data driven’ is ethereal,” she said. “Smart cities are grounded.”

If you to talk about the data industry’s mythical “data driven” for very long, your conversation probably has an eery resemblance to those you had 10 years ago. Today we have more volume, more complexity, and nice things like artificial intelligence. But the old themes repeat over and over.… Read the rest “Take data from ethereal to grounded”