The following is a guest post by Boyd Cohen, Ph.D., an urban strategist & co-founder of IoMob.net. In January of this year, Francesca Bria, Barcelona’s Commissioner for Technology and Digital Innovation, announced the City’s plan to transform the government to open source software and open data. As the smart cities movement shifts from a technology-driven top-down … [Read more...]
About Boyd Cohen
Boyd Cohen, Ph.D., is an urban strategist focused on the areas of urban innovation, entrepreneurship, smart cities and urban mobility. He has published 3 books (Climate Capitalism, 2011; The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur, 2016; Post-capitalist Entrepreneurship, 2017). He is Deputy Director of Research at EADA Business School and a jointly appointed faculty at the Universitat de Vic. In 2017, he co-founded IoMob.net, a blockchain startup seeking to decentralize the mobility sector by providing an open protocol for the Internet of Mobility (IoM).