The Internet of People strikes back

The paper advocates for alternative ecologies for the adoption of the Internet of People (IoP), rather than the Internet of Things (IoT) currently promoted by the ‘smart city’ spinning discourse. It suggests a ‘public’ data and Internet infrastructures, which is run by the city and its citizens: this has become more an urgent matter during the pandemic crisis which forced most of the world population to stay at home, thus increasing their demands on the ‘network of networks’.

该论文倡导采用不同于当前由‘智慧城市’相关话语所推广的物联网（IoT），而是一种替代性的生态体系，即人际网络（IoP）的采纳。它提出了由城市及其市民共同运营的‘公共’数据和互联网基础设施，这在疫情期间显得尤为迫切，因为疫情迫使全球大部分人口居家隔离，从而大幅提升了他们对‘网络之网’的需求。