The Smart City PDX team is searching for community leaders to bring their community and voices into the Digital Justice movement. This cohort model is preceded by two innovative models: the Equity Consulting Advisor model piloted in 2019 and the Digital Divide Work Group model developed in 2020.
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Newsweek named Portland as one of World’s Smartest Cities for its Smart City PDX projects, in collaboration with the Portland Bureau of Transportation. The projects are notable because the teams are committed to designing their projects using an equity lens.
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Meet the three equity consulting advisors Smart City PDX selected to join the team from an amazing pool of candidates.
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Innovative new advisory group on equity issues will support program development.
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Cities want to be ‘smart,’ connected, and data-driven, but in doing this many are unwittingly engaging in large-scale surveillance of citizens. Without greater transparency or accountability around these operations, cities risk a collapse in public trust. Privacy and Data Protection should be at the heart of Smart Cities.
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