Digital inclusion and Urban AI: strategic roadmapping and policy challenges
The article “Digital Inclusion and Urban AI: Strategic Roadmapping and Policy Challenges” by Igor Calzada and Itziar Eizaguirre serves as the editorial introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Inclusion & Urban AI. It argues for a transition from the Smart City paradigm to Urban AI, emphasiz...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad del País Vasco |
| Repositorio: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/74977 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/74977 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | artificial intelligence AI genAI urbanAI roadmapping policy |
| Sumario: | The article “Digital Inclusion and Urban AI: Strategic Roadmapping and Policy Challenges” by Igor Calzada and Itziar Eizaguirre serves as the editorial introduction to the Special Issue on Digital Inclusion & Urban AI. It argues for a transition from the Smart City paradigm to Urban AI, emphasizing digital inclusion, human rights, and democratic governance. Drawing on Richard R. Nelson’s metaphor of “The Moon and the Ghetto,” the paper explores how generative and urban AI can either reproduce structural inequalities or enable equitable innovation systems. It situates this debate within global city cases—Barcelona, Amsterdam, New York, San José, Dubai, and Singapore—and presents findings from the 2025 International Summer School on Digital Inclusion & GenAI in Donostia-San Sebastián. The authors propose an Urban AI Social Contract grounded in three interlinked pillars: territorial innovation governance, algorithmic accountability as public infrastructure, and participatory design and contestability. The paper concludes that Urban AI must align technological innovation with social justice, democratic legitimacy, and planetary well-being. |
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