Resumen de Data Literacy in the Smart City:Why Smart Cities Should bePopulated by MIL Citizens
Leo Van Audenhove, Ilse Mariën, Rob Heyman, Nils Walravens, Wendy Van den Broeck, Andy Demeulenaere, Pieter Ballon
Smart Cities typify the current and future data-rich environments. In these types of environments,technology and the analysis of vast data facilitate more intelligent choices and actions—largely automatedusing algorithms and artificial intelligence—related to mobility, security, energy use, culture,markets, etc. (Ballon, van der Graaf, & Walravens, 2017). A discussion on the necessity of data literacyhas emerged from debates on datafication, big data, open data, artificial intelligence, and algorithms.The question, however, lies on the relation between media and data literacy. In this contribution, wereflect on aspects of data literacy by examining the literature on smart cities and data in smart cities.We argue that smart cities are not automatically media and information-literate cities. Furthermore,smart cities can only become media and information-literate cities by actively developing an opendata context, involving citizens in data projects, empowering civil society participation, and stimulatingdata literacy in a broad sense.
