While still a relatively new sounding term, the ‘smart city’ has been a topic of discussion for over ten years now. This technology enabled urban development has been increasingly influential in our cities during the past decade but has recently taken a big step forward to what we might now call ‘smart city 2.0’. The recent shift comes from a significant increase in the pervasiveness of technology and the expansion of open data policies that is unleashing an unprecedented economic growth engine for urban innovation. The initial smart city movement saw us generate masses of new data for municipal government use, through deployment of vast networks of sensors. The smart city 2.0 movement is epitomised by the benefits of making all that data available to everyone. Smart city 2.0 is not just a service that improves life for a city’s citizens; it represents a platform upon which citizens can create their own solutions to issues […]