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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”

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Disrupting the Gospel of Tech Solutionism to Build Tech Justice

Stanford Social Innovation

As Simone Browne demonstrated in her book Dark Matters , contemporary tech-enabled surveillance practices are an extension of the long history of policing Black life in the United States from slavery onward. The Problem With Tech-Solutionism. What if, sometimes, the answer isn’t technology?