Osh: An Interactive City Map That Already Worked<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The first speaker was Zamirbek Askarov, vice-mayor of Osh, presenting alongside partners from the Youth of Osh civil-society organisation. Their project, built with international donor support, was an interactive mobile map of the city that let residents file complaints about utility services and route urgent civic issues into the mayor’s office faster than the existing channels. The presentation was concrete and operational: how the issue tickets routed, what response times had been before and after, where the gaps remained. The other speakers on the panel rated it the strongest single project on the floor \u2014 not because it was technically advanced, but because it had been shipped, was being used, and had a measurable effect on how Osh’s municipal services responded to citizen demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dushanbe: When the Cheaper Sensor Is the Better One<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Mukhammadi Ibodulloev, head of the Civic Initiative on Internet Policy of Tajikistan, walked through what Dushanbe had tried, what had worked, and what had been a wrong choice. The project that drew the most attention from the Kyrgyz audience was the city-market price monitoring system \u2014 cameras installed at major Dushanbe markets that captured retail prices for staple goods and fed them into a transparent public dataset. The scheme was inexpensive relative to the alternative (a manual reporting infrastructure), produced data the mayor’s office actually used in policy decisions, and could in principle be ported to small Kyrgyz cities planning analogous food-price monitoring. The pattern Ibodulloev emphasised \u2014 that the right technology in a small city was often the cheaper, simpler one rather than the most sophisticated \u2014 set the tone for the rest of the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moscow: The Limits Sensors Cannot See<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Eldar Tuzmukhametov, who ran Moscow’s Smart City Lab inside the city government, gave the most useful diagnostic talk of the day. His slides ran through what Moscow had built \u2014 sensor coverage on roads, GPS on snowplows and street-cleaning trucks, monitoring of utility loads \u2014 and named the specific point where the monitoring infrastructure ran out of usefulness. GPS on a snowplow tells the operator where the vehicle was and how much fuel it consumed. It does not tell the operator whether snow was actually cleared, or whether the road was actually salted, because the act of cleaning is not what the sensor is sensing. Moscow’s next horizon, he said, was not more sensors but the analytical layer above them: machine-learning models that infer the quality of the work performed from indirect signals. For the Bishkek and Osh decision-makers in the room, the takeaway was sharper still: do not buy the sensors before you know what management decision the data will actually inform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IBM: Predictive Safe-City and the Procurement Shape of Vendor Solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Viktor Ignatov, who led IBM’s Smart Cities division, presented the vendor view: what city-government clients typically needed, where IBM’s products integrated, and how the Safe City product specifically used predictive video analytics to compress municipal response times, raise road-safety outcomes, and lower facility operating costs. Ignatov was also direct about the management problems city governments encountered when deploying systems of this scale \u2014 the procurement shape, the integration with legacy municipal databases, the staffing and analytics capability needed to operate the systems after delivery. For a Bishkek mayor’s office contemplating a Safe City rollout, that operational layer was almost more useful than the product specification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Habidatum: When the Cameras Are in the Wrong Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ekaterina Serova, vice-president of Habidatum, raised the level of the conversation by asking whether technical solutions matched citizen needs in the first place \u2014 and what the term «smart city» was actually supposed to mean. Her presentation worked through two examples. In Rio de Janeiro, temporal-spatial analysis of CCTV camera positions and crime locations had found that the cameras were largely not<\/em> where the crimes occurred \u2014 the rollout had followed the visibility of installation contracts, not the data on where surveillance would actually deter crime. In London, a similar analysis showed public spaces being used heavily during certain hours and standing empty during others, with completely different demographic groups occupying the same physical space at different times of day. Both examples pointed at the same conclusion: a city is a temporal object as much as a spatial one, and most «smart city» deployments treat it as if only the spatial axis exists. Habidatum’s Chronotope platform was the operational version of that argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The audience question section ran longer than the panel itself. Most of the questions were operational \u2014 would Safe City projects perform in Kyrgyz cities the way IBM had described, when could the Osh interactive-map project be replicated in Tokmok or Karakol, what would it cost a small Kyrgyz mayor’s office to start with the cheapest version of any of these systems. The most consequential question was implicit and came up across most of the answers: should a Kyrgyz city deploy any of this before deciding what specific civic outcome it wanted to improve, and whether a non-technological solution to the same problem was already available. The conclusion Aziz Soltobaev wrote into the moderator’s resume after the session was that one sentence: «before introducing technologies, decide what the goals are and what non-technological solutions exist for the same task.»<\/em> The smart-city question is finally about decisions, not equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The forum continued the next day with separate panels on citizen participation, public spaces, sustainable architecture, the right to the city, and a session for the mayors of Kyrgyz cities convened by IPR, GAMSUMO, and the Union of Local Self-Governments. The Smart Cities panel, however, was the one whose participants stayed in touch afterwards: the Osh-Dushanbe-Bishkek line that had formed in the room turned into the working network for several of the civic-tech projects that ran in 2018 and 2019, including KG Labs’ Safe City and Safe Society hackathon later in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smart Cities at the Bishkek Urban Forum, May 2017: What Bishkek, Osh, Dushanbe and Moscow Said in One Room On May 12, 2017, the «Smart Cities» panel of the Bishkek Urban Forum filled its room about thirty minutes before the session was scheduled to start, ran past the two-hour slot allotted to it, and continued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,375],"tags":[624,376,384,382,639,377,379,380,385,383,381,674,378,137],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-and-events","category-policy-and-regulation","tag-geo-bishkek","tag-bishkek-urban-forum","tag-civic-technology","tag-dushanbe","tag-format-event-record","tag-forum-of-cities","tag-habidatum","tag-ibm-safe-city","tag-may-2017","tag-moscow-smart-city","tag-osh-interactive-map","tag-op-policy-governance","tag-smart-cities","tag-taza-koom"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"ru","enabled_languages":["en","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kglabs.org\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What the Room Decided to Care About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\n Forum<\/td>\n Bishkek Urban Forum 2017 (\u0424\u043e\u0440\u0443\u043c \u0413\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u0432)<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Dates<\/td>\n 12\u201313 May 2017<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Location<\/td>\n Bishkek<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n «Smart Cities» panel<\/td>\n Day 1, 13:30\u201315:30, Hall \u0411<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Panel co-curators<\/td>\n KG Labs Public Foundation; Civic Initiative on Internet Policy of Tajikistan<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Moderator<\/td>\n Aziz Soltobaev, KG Labs<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Panel speakers<\/td>\n Zamirbek Askarov (vice-mayor of Osh, with Youth of Osh); Mukhammadi Ibodulloev (Civic Initiative on Internet Policy, Tajikistan); Eldar Tuzmukhametov (Smart City Lab, Moscow Government); Viktor Ignatov (Smart Cities division, IBM); Ekaterina Serova (vice-president, Habidatum)<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Panel context<\/td>\n Taza Koom national digital-transformation programme; urbanisation trend; civic-reporter media pressure on Bishkek and Osh mayors’ offices<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n \n Other Forum curators<\/td>\n World Bank (urban planning); National Institute for Strategic Studies (urban data); IPR, GAMSUMO, Union of Local Self-Governments (mayors’ session); \u041e\u0424 «\u041d\u0430\u0448\u0435 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u043e» + \u041e\u0424 «\u0413\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0438\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0438\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u044b» (Right to the City); \u041e\u0424 «\u0418\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0438\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0430 \u0410\u0420\u0427\u0410» (urban greening)<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n