Preparation of HaDEA meeting regarding the end of project review (milestone 13 of the grant agreement).

Webinar "A importância dos dados abertos" organized by Rede Nacional de Administração Aberta, within the Open Gov Week.

The Secretaries General and Executive Directors of the European Union capitals, as part of their meeting "CED 2022" - Chief Executive Directors of European Capitals - under the theme "Solutions for the city of the future", visited NOVA Cidade Urban Analytics Lab of NOVA IMS.
During the visit they had the opportunity to know the projects and initiatives developed by NOVA Cidade in the areas of Urban and Territorial Intelligence, with emphasis on: UCD Lab project, i-territory, Data to the Lisbon Service and C-TECH.

Pre-presentation, at the Portugal Smart City Summit, of the results produced in the project where analytical approaches (descriptive, predictive and prescriptive) were adopted to respond to the major challenges of cities (emergency, waste, pollution, soft mobility and parking) in order to contribute to the planning and management of data-driven urban spaces.
Presentation made in the context of the meetings organized in the CML stand.

The main goal of these conferences was to gather different and multidisciplinary perspectives about the territory as well mobilize national and international research networks that have been working in this field of knowledge. During these conferences it was presented the use case #5 Emergency in the framework of the project Urban Co-Creation Data Lab under the title “Prediction and simulation of the risk of traffic accidents using neural networks and gradient boosting with an hybrid classification/regression modelling approach in urban context”. For the development of this use case were trained and tested neural networks and decision-trees alghoritms using an hybrid classification/regression approach, that allowed to predict and compute the risk of traffic accidents in the city of Lisbon at road segment level, resorting to historical data of traffic accidents from 2013 to 2020.

Urban Lab and Innovation&Analytics Lab merged forces to find and develop the most disruptive innovations around five challenges:

• Mobility,
• Waste Management,
• Parking,
• Pollution, and
• Emergency.

The Innovation Deep Dive will be divided in three parts:

(1) Student Challenge,

(2) Research for Empathy, and

(3) Open Innovation Co-Creation,

all steps based on Design Thinking methodology.

Design thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. It involves three phases Inspiration, Ideation and Prototyping.

In the Student Open Challenge, the students of NOVA IMS, divided in seven groups, will choose one of the five challenges and apply Design Thinking methodology to define disruptive projects. This part will happen between September 27th and October 24th.

The Research for Empathy will be performed by researchers from both Labs, using netnography and in-depth interviews conducted between October 11st and November 1st. The goal is to identify insights to guide the ideation and prototyping phases.

The Open Innovation Co-Creation is composed of a three days workshop, where the participants will explore Lisbon in the search for insights (December 15th), Empathize (December with users and citizens need, and Brainstorm possible solutions for each persona (December 17th).

VIRTUAL / ONLINE CONFERENCE - 2021

INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL PLANNING, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON

7 - 10 September 2021

The conference will focus on two main themes:

• Governance and Planning of Smart Cities,
• Citizens e-Participation in Urban Planning.

This conference is organized by the Urban e-Planning Research Network (UEP-NET) and promoted by the International Journal of E-Planning Research magazine, in collaboration with the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (Universidade de Lisboa).

An Abstract regarding UCD Lab #3 – Parking, was accepted and the results will be presented at the e-Planning Conference.

The Program Schedule will be available here in early July 2021.

Agenda:

1. Project status update:

• • NOVA IMS
  • BSC

2. Lisbon Co-Creation Data Lab and Lisbon Conference

3. Activities plan for the last trimester of the project

Workshop - GIS concepts and spatial data analysis for data scientists (5th April) by Pedro Sarmento

Workshop title: Geographic Information Systems concepts and spatial data analysis for data scientists

Workshop description: In this workshop is intended to fill the gap in the use of spatial data by data scientists. The workshop will cover the main concepts of Geographic Information Systems & Science essential to understand spatial data and how to integrate and analyze it in data science projects. Types and characteristics of spatial data and essential geoprocessing operations will be highlighted in the workshop. Also, a demonstration of a 15-minute city study will be showcased, to demonstrate some of the concepts lectured in the workshop.

Tags: spatial data; spatial analysis; geoprocessing; geographic information systems

Video

The World Data League has officially begun!

WDL kick-off session

1st part

Rules, dates, activities, and prizes

Subtopic for Stage 1: Public Transportation. 

Break

2nd part 

Speed Networking

Roundtable with Miguel de Castro Neto, from NOVA IMS Information Management School, and Nuno Santos, from PSE - Your Data Specialists, to talk about the subtopic.

The quest to find the best data scientists by solving social-oriented problems.

League: April and May 2021

Finals: July 2021

More information here

Follow us in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-data-league/

Agenda:

1. Project status update
2. Challenges presentation and data available:
   1. NOVA IMS
   2. BSC (Video 1 and Video 2)
3. Lisboa Co-Creation Data Lab 
4. Activities planned for the project last semester

Agenda:

1. Project status update
2. Challenges presentation and data available:
   1. NOVA IMS
   2. CML
   3. BSC
3. Co-Creation Data Labs process methodology and calendar
4. Activities plan for the next months

Program

22.09.2020

3:00 p.| Micromobility (EMEL)

Identification of usage patterns over space and time to predict search for bicycles using data science and artificial intelligence

23.09.2020

11:00 | Waste Management (CML Urban Hygiene Department)

Prediction of the amounts of municipal solid waste produced for more efficient collection, using data science and artificial intelligence

3:00 p.| Parking (Municipal Police) Identification of abusive parking patterns and predict their occurrence, using data science and artificial intelligence

24.09.2020

11:00 | Crowd Management (CARRIS)

Calculation of the impact of a marathon on city mobility, in particular on public road transport

3:00 p.| Emergency (Municipal Civil Protection Service and RSB)

Provision for the need of emergency services, in order to ensure a response time of less than 5 minutes

Project meeting (M6) March 2, at 10:00 AM (Lisbon time) at NOVA IMS (and by Skype).

Agenda:

1. Project status update
2. Challenges presentation and data available
3. Co-Creation Data Labs process methodology and calendar

Agenda

AM

09:00 - Welcome coffee

09:30 – Works Kick-Off

Partners presentation, institutional by the team leader and personal by all attendees (BSC, AMA, NEC, CML, NOVA IMS)

Project presentation (objectives, deliverables and timetable) by NOVA IMS

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Partner’s expertise presentation by team leaders, background experience and added value to the project implementation (BSC, AMA, NEC, CML, NOVA IMS)

13:00 Lunch break

PM

14:30h

Partner’s expertise presentation by team leaders (continued)

Project web site presentation by NOVA IMS

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

Analysis and approval of project implementation plan (tasks, deadlines, deliverables per partner)

18:00 – Close remarks