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2015 Mumbai<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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The theme and context<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Across the world, everything is changing \u2013 the way we live, traditional roles in society, and the way we connect to one another. Recognising this, governments and policy makers are starting to design services with, and not for, people. Increasingly, ordinary citizens are beginning to see themselves as active agents in shaping their own lives. This global shift is reflected in the rise of the sharing economy and the new ways citizens are accessing and using big and open data. Instead of a world in which things move top down or bottom up, they now move sideways, from peer to peer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Mumbai?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As well as being the entertainment, financial and commercial capital of India, Mumbai is increasingly recognised as a hotbed of some of the most exciting urban innovations. With an exploding population, these innovations build on the civic consciousness and social infrastructures of Mumbai\u2019s dense and dynamic neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mumbai is a city of colour and contrast. High tech and low tech seem to work in harmony, while the juxtaposition, of old and new, informal and formal, poverty and wealth, temporary and permanent makes the city a source of inspiration. This is a city where systems and chaos function simultaneously.

Technology is a key enabler in these developments. It is reconfiguring relationships between businesses and consumers, as well as between politicians and citizens. It is also catalysing peer-to-peer connections, and transforming grassroots movements. Consequently, many of our old assumptions must be actively forgotten as technology enables citizens to reshape their cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We partnered with ISDI<\/a> (host) and Okapi<\/a>. Over the two and a half days, we explored how India\u2019s emerging civic consciousness is impacting on new thinking on cities, citizens and the networks they weave together with their governments and institutions. Through a series of site visits, case studies, workshops, meals and talks, we discussed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n