Jaideep Gupte - How Digital and Social Innovation Can Make Cities Resilient, Safe and Inclusive

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Jaideep Gupte - How Local Data and Social Innovation can Help Make Cities Inclusive and Safe

In this lecture, Jaideep Gupte from IDS, the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, presents cutting edge evidence on the importance of data for inclusive urban governance in the Global South. The lecture shows how data and policy innovations can further security provision for all.

Violence in cities significantly compromises development and can have detrimental consequences for peace-building and political settlements in both conflict and non-conflict settings. The majority of the world’s most fragile and conflict-affected countries are rapidly urbanising, while much of the global burden of violent crime can be directly or indirectly linked to cities. But cities also abound with social, cultural and technological innovation and can bring 'smart' solutions to complex problems. Efforts to provide security, build political settlements and create safe cities for all need to go beyond reviewing simple statistics of death, destruction and violent crime. They need to engage 'the city' as a complex system.

Jaideep Gupte presents the nature and extent of urban violence and summarises cutting edge evidence on data driven approaches to urban security provision in the Global South. He presents approaches that seek to securitise the city are juxtaposed with inclusive visions of the city where no one is left behind.

The Global Urban Lectures are 15-minute lectures on themes related to sustainable urbanisation, delivered by renowned experts, UN-Habitat partners and UN-Habitat staff. The lectures have been ranked among the best MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on cities.

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Photo credits:

Resilience flow – Jaideep Gupte

Lallubhai Compound, North Eastern Mumbai images - Jaideep Gupte

Mahila Milan images – SPARC

Wellbeing: Mapping image– Jaideep Gupte

Wellbeing Photos - IDS

Medellin gondolas - iStock.com/holgs

Judge Pablo Casas conducts hearings from Court number 10 online - Equipo TW @jpcyf10

Smart cities – Jaideep Gupte

Sleeping in pipe - iStock.com/mtreasure

Know your city: No One Left Behind – IDS and Slum Dwellers International http://www.knowyourcity.tv/nooneleftb...

Safe city logo - SafeCity App

Safe city screen shot - SafeCity App

Safe city map - Elsa Marie DSilva

Bogota police - iStock.com/StreetMuse

Khayelitsha, South Africa map- VPUU NPC
Study citation: “Matzopoulos et al. 2020. Urban upgrading and levels of interpersonal violence in Cape Town, South Africa: The violence prevention through urban upgrading programme. Social Science & Medicine 255: 112978.”

Dharavi footpath images - iStock.com/holgs

Mumbai-worli.jpg Photo credit: iStock.com/Adrian Catalin Lazar

Mumbai children - iStock.com/Adrian Catalin Lazar

Icons speaking and no-racism – Flaticon.com – Licensed to Vidar Vasko