Public values in the procurement process

Smart city technologies are often developed through tenders. By organising the tendering process differently, municipalities can better safeguard public values in these technologies. Waag visualised a tendering process with touchpoints at which municipalities can incorporate public values by involving citizens.

This publication is in Dutch.

Open Hem NU!

Een visie op Home Energy Management Systemen gebaseerd op open standaarden, open-source technologie en energiegemeenschappen die publieke waarden centraal stellen.

Public Stack Assessment of Hollandse Luchten

For our research into governing an air quality data commons, we applied the public stack as an analysis tool to the Hollandse Luchten project, as part of the NWO-funded research Shared Cities, Smart Citizens. Hollandse Luchten is a citizen science project initiated by the province of North Holland, measuring the living environment with sensor technologies.

Governance of Digital Public Spaces

This series of articles discuss the governance of digital public spaces and what that entails. It builds on the previous work done by both Waag and the PublicSpaces coalition, who argued for the importance of such digital public spaces. […]

Communicating About Digital Public Spaces

Communicating about digital public spaces is hard. There is so much to tell, but we want to capture a short message. We have to be nuanced and clear, but also simple and concise. We have to speak with a wide range of experts, policymakers, and citizens, but we need to keep a target audience in mind. We need to provide the right level of background information, and we need to get to the point. This publication presents strategies for addressing different audiences with the same core message – that digital public spaces are built on our rules, not theirs.

Report on Digital Public Spaces (2020)

In November 2020 Waag published a report on Digital European Public Spaces. The report is not the latest of where we are, but it provides background information that can help anyone understand our current work.

Imagine Digital Public Spaces

Imagine a world where you are not tracked online. You can send a message to a friend and know that nobody else (not even a robot) will see it. You can post anonymously to a message board, and even check the code of that message board yourself if you want to be sure that your privacy is protected by design. […]

Identity Management

Considering Digital Identity in the context of the public stack, we see the subject represented in all layers, and firmly rooted in the foundation. Identity and its related concepts of ownership […]