Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
11-2024
Abstract
In this paper, we argue that contextual factors such as availability of infrastructure, socio-cultural characteristics of users, governance style, and the regulatory environment in global south cities creates opportunities for public and private sector actors to come up with innovative strategies to smart city development and the platformization of services. Despite different objectives, operationalization strategies, and expected outcomes between the public and private sectors, both sectors learn from one another to come up with innovative solutions for navigating contextual contingencies. Due to limited infrastructure and contextual diversities in global south cities, digital platforms require significant and specific forms of groundwork by humans that leverage their everyday networks and interactions with their surroundings. In the process of platformization, both governments and private entities strategically employ the discourse of smart, responsible citizenship to promote the innovative co-creation of platform services, thereby extending biopolitical control over citizens' bodies and interactions. In this process citizens are engaged as sensing nodes to support smart city development in global south cities. This paper examines two distinct cases of public and private sector ‘human sensing’ experiments in Jakarta: Jakarta Smart City’s JakLapor platform and Grab's human mapping initiative. In these experiments, ‘peopled collaborations’ (Simone, 2021) between citizens are deployed by the government and the platform company as innovations where urban infrastructure is inadequate, or to fill gaps that cannot be filled by conventional digital infrastructure.
Keywords
Human sensors, Smart city, Jakarta, People as infrastructure, Platform innovation, Platformization
Discipline
Asian Studies | Human Geography | Urban Studies and Planning
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Areas of Excellence
Growth in Asia
Publication
City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action
First Page
1
Last Page
23
ISSN
1360-4813
Identifier
10.1080/13604813.2024.2427954
Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group
Citation
DAS, Prerona; WOODS, Orlando; and KONG, Lily.
Human sensors in the city of super apps: Mobilizing people as infrastructure for smart city development in Jakarta, Indonesia. (2024). City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action. 1-23.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/242
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2427954
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