Testing Civic Tech

9 November 2021, 18:00–20:00 @ Smart City Lab Zürich, Hohlstrasse 400, 8048 Zürich Map

Organised by Opendata.ch, Stadtentwicklung Zürich

On 9 November 2021, the Smart City team of the City of Zurich and the Prototype Fund invited people to the Smart City Lab on Hohlstrasse. The workshop was part of the «Debatte» series of Karl der Grosse; Opendata.ch helped prepare it on behalf of Zurich’s urban development office, moderated it and followed it up. After an introduction, participants tested one tool per group: pol.is on how shared micromobility in Zurich should be regulated, a Decidim test environment of the city with ideas on transport, and VelObserver, which lets cyclists rate Zurich’s cycling infrastructure. Everyone then discussed in mixed groups what they liked, what they did not and where such tools could be useful in Zurich.

For VelObserver it was the first test of a working prototype of the web app, with around ten people. The feedback: rating takes effort and cannot be done while riding, people mostly rate when they are annoyed, photos would help, and it has to be visible that a rating changes something. The team took these questions into its retreat; shortly afterwards the City of Zurich approached the project to discuss working together.

Programme

1. 18:00–18:10
   Arrival
2. 18:10–18:25
   Welcome: Smart City Zürich and Prototype Fund

   Looking back at the previous evening, input from Smart City Zürich and the Prototype Fund.

   Simon MaurerSmart City ZürichFlorin HaslerPrototype Fund, Opendata.ch
3. 18:25–18:40
   Introduction: the tools and the aim of the workshop
4. 18:40–19:25
   Test group pol.is: How should shared micromobility in Zurich be regulated?

   Simon MaurerSmart City Zürich
5. 18:40–19:25
   Test group Decidim: ideas on transport in the city’s test environment

   Margot GaglianiSmart City Zürich
6. 18:40–19:25
   Test group VelObserver: rating Zurich’s cycle routes

   First test of the working prototype of the web app, a project from the second round of the Prototype Fund.

   Florin HaslerPrototype Fund, Opendata.ch
7. 19:25–19:45
   World café: what worked, what did not, where would it help in Zurich?

   Discussion in three mixed groups.

8. 19:45–20:00
   Apéro with Taiwanese bao

Organising team

• Nikki BöhlerOpendata.ch
• Florin HaslerOpendata.ch, Prototype Fund
• Simon MaurerSmart City Zürich
• Margot GaglianiSmart City Zürich

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