Toronto Open Smart Cities Forum
About
The Toronto Open Smart Cities Forum was created by the Centre for Free Expression to assist the public in responding to proposed and existing networked forms of urbanism like Sidewalk Toronto.
Any member of the public is welcome to share the resources the CFE creates for the Forum. This includes documents and analysis, public panel discussions, and colloquia as the Sidewalk Toronto process continues.
The purpose of these resources is to help inform and educate residents affected by networked urbanist forms of smart cities like Sidewalk Toronto and others who are interested in open smart city solutions. To find more information about the Centre’s work on smart cities, click here.
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Resources
Unmasking the Halloween Agreement: What’s Up with Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs?
By Nick De Carlo, Gene Desfor, and David Robertson
January 30, 2020
Is Privacy Possible in the proposed Sidewalk Toronto or any “Smart City”?
Google-affiliate Sidewalk Labs is selling a vision of a “smart city” future for a section of Toronto’s port lands.
A public-partnership for secrecy? Waterfront Toronto’s ‘smart city’ ongoing discussions with Sidewalk Labs
The Google-affiliated American company Sidewalk Labs’ 1500-page proposal for a smart city on Toronto’s eastern waterfront has received p
“Urban Data” & “Civic Data Trusts” in the Smart City
On June 24, Sidewalk Labs, a sister company to Google, released its three-volume, 1,500-page Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) containing its draft proposals for a smart-city project in
The Google ‘Smart City’ Plan: Financial Language of Hi-Tech Colonialism
George Orwell’s 1946 essay “Politics and the English language” is my suggested summer reading for Toronto city councillors and anyone interested in the ‘smart city’ plan that Sidewalk Labs/Google h