Mobility is always in flux, especially in cities and residential areas. In this workshop we will explore how the future of mobility might look like, what modal shifts we need to take into account and what this means for mobility services and open data. The end goal is to translate these different factors into tangible challenges cities can use. This session is in preparation of Apps for Ghent as this year marks the 10th edition of the hackathon with a 24 hour mobility hack from 20 to 21 March.
Pieter-Jan is an innovation lead at Digipolis Gent, the IT Government Agency for Ghent. As part of their Foresight team, he works around the future shift of government services and how open innovation processes can help us towards a more future-oriented and sustainable way of building technology. PJ believes open knowledge and stimulating collaboration between diverse stakeholders are key factors to solve complex societal challenges.
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Martine is a citizen of the world, born in Canada and having lived in several places in Europe and Canada. She studied at the University of Ottawa (Canada) graduating with a bachelor in social sciences with a concentration in economics She has been living in Ghent for the past 22 years. She is the Chief Foresight Officer at Digipolis, co-founder of Cities of People and taskforce leader of foresight within the Eurocities network. In her career she has especially taken up roles with a strategic focus through which her broad and systems thinking adds extra perspectives in order to increase understanding. She has expert knowledge of e-Inclusion, smart cities, public policy, government strategy, citizen participation and future studies.
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