📣 | Are you a small-to-medium enterprise (SME) owner or manager? Join experts from The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University on 28 February for a free and interactive two hour workshop that will look at overcoming challenges and how to empower your business! 🔗 ➡️ orlo.uk/EdID1 #MustBeNapier

SAVE THE DATE: on March 4th, to celebrate #IWD2024, we're hosting 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆, an event showcasing the success stories of female leaders in the digital tech sector. Register now 👇 lnkd.in/dgKyAk8q

Register your place for "Women Leading Change in the Digital Economy" at the Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart on Monday 4 March (3-5pm). The event will showcase success stories of female leaders in the digital tech sector. forms.office.com/pages/response… #EdNapier

Happy #IWD2024 from all of us at Unity / Urban Innovation Policy Lab. We would like to take this opportunity to say a heartfelt thanks to all those who attended our ‘Women leading change in the digital economy’ event at Edinburgh Napier University this week to celebrate female leaders in the digital tech sector.

This week, Clare McTigue represented us at the Dave Cook Urban Mobility Partners’ Day in Prague, Czechia. This was the first year that Edinburgh Napier University were in attendance with over 250 partners from Europe’s leading companies, research, and education institutions. #UrbanMobility

New #OpenAccess publication in Technological Forecasting & Social Change (w/ Luca Mora Jun (Oliver) Zhang @[email protected] & Alessandro Sancino) 🔗lnkd.in/dtQ-8jJQ The paper identifies 5 types of interaction between #grassroots digital innovations (GDIs) and incumbents in the #smartcity regime (1/4)

The final report of Mapping Inequalities in Smart Places is finally out! As part of this project, funded by @BritishAcademy and Accademia dei Lincei, we explored how inequalities are dealt with in #SmartCities in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 & 🇮🇹. 🇬🇧dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.… 🇮🇹 dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.…

This week our Unity / Urban Innovation Policy Lab team member Luca Mora travelled to #AbuDhabi to deliver a #Masterclass on #FutureCities. This masterclass offered public sector and industry leaders an introduction to our #GovernanceFramework for smart city projects - lnkd.in/dqa5RPib.

On Friday 14 I'm back to #Dundee for the final event of Oor Smart Ceeties, Unity / Urban Innovation Policy Lab participatory workshops on the digital future of🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿cities. Everyone who wants to have a say on the #digitaltransformation of #Scottish communities is welcome to join 👇 bit.ly/3KamUkL

I wrote a wee blog post for Platform Cooperativism Consortium - Global where I share some insights from my recent research on the complex and dynamic interplay existing between #platform #coops and incumbents in digital ecosystems. It's a quick read, I hope you find it useful! 👇 platform.coop/blog/friendsor…

New paper with Jun (Oliver) Zhang @[email protected], Dr Efpraxia & Luca Mora just published in Information Systems Journal, investigating how #platformcoops create #socialvalue to foster a more equitable and inclusive #digital landscape. Full text available in #OpenAccess 👇 doi.org/10.1111/isj.12…

📣 If you have implemented or studied a people-centred #smartcity initiative, we want to hear from you! 🗓️ Share your best practices, impact assessments, and lessons learned by 1 September 2024 with UN-Habitat and Unity / Urban Innovation Policy Lab here: unhabitat.org/join-us/calls/…