Learning from Bangalore: Urban Informatics at Street Level

Zack Denfeld is an artist who splits his time between Bangalore, India and Portland, OR. From 2006-2008 he helped edit the Emerging Economy Report for the Center for Knowledge Societies. Earlier this year he spent 6 months at CSTEP, a Think Tank in India that uses Agent Based Modeling and serious gaming to shape urban and next generation infrastructure policy.

He also teaches at PNCA in Portland and is the outreach coordinator for the Center for Genomic Gastronomy.

In this talk I will describe a number of official and improvised uses of mobile and urban computing technology I have observed in urban India, especially Bangalore. In some cases a lack of traditional hard urban infrastructure directs people to create informational workarounds, in other cases emerging technology drives non-traditional user patterns which play our very differently than in an American city or context. What lessons can we learn from the way institutions and individuals use Urban Informatics in Bangalore?

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