The author describes the story as “a thought experiment that imagines a future where a city administration uses a data broker, based on a company like ACXIOM, and their services to make decisions regarding the provision of services.” One result is to exacerbate existing inequalities. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
BT - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables C6 -The Irish author is a Professor in the Department of Geography in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute.
C7 - 2019 CY - Np DA - 01/2019 LA - eng N2 -The author describes the story as “a thought experiment that imagines a future where a city administration uses a data broker, based on a company like ACXIOM, and their services to make decisions regarding the provision of services.” One result is to exacerbate existing inequalities. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
PB - Meatspace Press PP - Np PY - 2019 SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 SP - 13 EP - 32] T2 - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables TI - You Are Entitled to What the Data Says You Deserve” ER -