{"id":2451,"date":"2023-11-26T18:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verwaltungsgestaltung.de\/notizen\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2023-11-26T18:38:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T17:38:24","slug":"week-82-at-the-digital-service-notes-for-20-24-november-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verwaltungsgestaltung.de\/notizen\/2023\/11\/26\/week-82-at-the-digital-service-notes-for-20-24-november-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Week #82 at the Digital Service: Notes for 20\u201324 November 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday evening, we ran\u00a0our 4th public-facing meetup<\/a>. Returning to CityLAB Berlin\u2019s marvellous space, we welcomed 50 to 60 participants to learn and discuss \u2018Reshaping urban mobility\u2019. Once more, the focus was on the City of Berlin and what state and civic actors are doing in the theme\u2019s space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our event description promised the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cities have always been and will continue to be ever-changing. With them, the ways people move around in growing cities have adapted. New digital infrastructure, evolving citizen needs, and shifting climate demand new policies, services, and ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We had 3 speakers: 2 worked closely with the city-state, and 1 was in the state senate. The first speaker, Markus Sperl from\u00a0FreeMove<\/a>, presented his state- and ministry-funded research work exploring privacy-utility tradeoffs in mobility data for sustainable urban transformation. Like the following talks, this verged on the domains of qualitative public research, data science and public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second speaker, Heiko Rintelen of FixMyCity, who is developing participative digital tools for bicycle traffic planning, shared his work with the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. They use maps to let people participate in urban planning processes early when few things are set. Unfortunately, they see a much higher engagement rate in neighbourhoods where people with higher education and income live. They have not found sufficient ways to rebalance this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our last speaker for the evening was Benjamin Sternkopf, a policy researcher and project coordinator at the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment. He presented his ongoing analysis work on digital car parking across the city. With an original focus on air quality and transport planning, he shared some specific neighbourhood insights. About 10% of cars are wrongly or illegally parked. In a particular area of focus, a significant number of cars were not moved at all within 4 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While presenting fascinating data and insights, none of the 3 speakers could or wanted to elaborate on how far their work is successfully informing policy decisions at a district or city level. One speaker made a strong point: It should be less about data-informed decision-making and more about people-related decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I asked the audience, only around 20% of the people had attended a meetup of the series before. That is interesting and curious, but nothing I worry about. The proposition of the meetup is broad and changes its focus topic with each event. The kind of questions our 3 speakers received gave an insight into the knowledge of the people present. So, I am content with people only discovering the meetup and visiting an event with a topic that fits their interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The participant feedback data also supports that: 68% of 31 attendees over the 4 meetups would attend again. The score across all events remains unchanged at 4.8 out of 5. People seem to like the format and content, especially highlighting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n