Sciences Po Cities and Digital Technology Chair, « Google, a major stakeholder in local governance », 10.07.2023, 9:00am-5:00pm

International Conference

Google, a major stakeholder in local governance?
Monday 10th July, 2023
9 am – 5 pm CEST

Sciences Po, Room K011
1 place Saint-Thomas d’Aquin, 75007 Paris
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Compulsory Registration
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Session 1 (9 am – 12 pm) – Google and Cities: A Political Economy Approach

Nicolas Descamps (Strasbourg National School of Architecture) – Cloudless (?) A look at Google’s real estate strategies and land use in Mountain View and San José

Margherita Monti, Davide Blotta (Universita di Bologna, Universita di Urbino Carlo Bo) – The politics of Alphabet in the Occupied Territories of Palestine

Burcu Baykurt (University of Massachusetts Amherst) – Google Urbanism 2010-2020: From Infrastructural Control to Growing Bit by Bit

Beatriz Botero (SciencesPo) – From Side Walk Toronto to Google Fiber and Google Maps: Insights from Local Government for Local Economic Development in a Digital Age

12:30 – 2 pm Lunch Break

Session 2 (2 – 5 pm) – Google’s products: policy tools impacting local policies?

Claudio Coletta (University of Bologna) – Climate platforms and carbon-neutral strategies in cities. Google EIE and global city networks.

Florian Koch (Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW)) – Google Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) and the risks of standardizing urban sustainability.

Ignacio Perez Karich (Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow) – Control room analysts, Waze and Google Maps: enacting the data bricolage in traffic and fleet management in Santiago de Chile.

Antoine Courmont (Sciences Po) – Places Struggle: How Google Maps impacts local businesses.