Prof Dr Igor Calzada is deeply grateful to the SGH Warsaw School of Economics (#SGH) for inviting him as #InvitedProfessor next week. This opportunity to engage with such a distinguished academic community is both an honor and a privilege. During his stay at SGH, I...

Prof Igor Calzada evaluates highly-profiled ongoing Horizon Europe projects by providing constructive scientific advise in topics related to AI, digital transformations, Web3, blockchain, DAOs, data cooperatives, and social innovation, among many other public policy challenges. Here with a consortium of a funded project after the...

On 13 September 2024, I had the opportunity to present my research on Trustworthy AI at a workshop held in Eindhoven, Netherlands, under the auspices of the Enfield EU project. The workshop brought together scholars and practitioners to address one of the most pressing challenges...

On 2-3 September 2024, I had the honor of directing the Summer Course AI for Social Innovation (AI4SI) in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. This unique event brought together participants from diverse backgrounds to discuss the transformative potential of AI in fostering social innovation. The course explored...

On 3-4 July 2024, I had the honor of presenting my paper titled “Digital Foundational Economy: AI, Data Democracy, and Social Innovation” at the WISERD Annual Conference, hosted by South Wales University in Cardiff. This exciting event provided an opportunity to engage with scholars and...

From July 17-27, 2023, I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the Research Workshop and Public Conference in Healdsburg, California, titled “Exploring Coordi-Nations and New Network Sovereignties”. This event was a deep dive into how network sovereignties—decentralized systems of governance—are reshaping the landscape...

On May 24, 2024, I had the honor of presenting my paper “What is an Algorithmic Nation? Sovereignties Under Scrutiny” at the 4th International Conference on Nationalism, held in Bilbao and organized by the Subiranotasuna Europako Herrietan Masterra (UPV/EHU). The event gathered scholars and researchers...

This past week #Eraldaroa VIII World #Congress of Basque Communities was held by #BasqueGovernment, Presidency, External Affairs’ General Secretary, in #Donostia gathering delegations from #Argentina #USA #Uruguay #Venezuela #Germany #Australia #Belgium #Brazil #Canada #Chile #Colombia #Cuba #France #Japan #Mexico #Paraguay #Peru 20th Dec, I presented...

Here is the article’s full reference of the article (in press). To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2023), Blockchain-Driven Digital Nomadism in the Basque e-Diaspora. Globalizations. DOI:10.1080/14747731.2023.2271216.

Dr Calzada participated in the event by addressing data governance issues to smart cities.

Towards an Algorithmic Nation? Dilemmas Around Synthetic Citizenship in Northern Ireland paper delivered at The Synthetic City: Potentials, Politics, and Everyday Life, Dublin (Ireland), 6-7 Sept. The paper reproduced the article published in the journal Citizenship Studies, particularly in the Special Issue Volume 27, 2023...

Dr Calzada has been promoted to Principal Research Fellow (Reader) academic position at Cardiff University (since August 2022)

To cite this article: Calzada, I. & Bustard, J. (2022), The Dilemmas Around Digital Citizenship in a Post-Brexit and Post-Pandemic Northern Ireland: Towards an Algorithmic Nation? 25(6-8). Citizenship Studies, Special Issue ‘Digital Citizenship in the Post-Pandemic Urban Realm’. DOI:10.1080/13621025.2022.2026565.

Honoured having been listed among 100 Most Influencial Academics in Government according to Apolitical.

About this Research Topic Submission Deadlines 03 February 2022 Abstract 03 April 2022 COVID-19 has hit citizens dramatically, not only creating a general risk-driven environment encompassing a wide array of economic vulnerabilities but also exposing them to pervasive digital risks, such as biosurveillance, misinformation, and...

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Fostering inclusive growth to ‘level up’ the UK: Lessons from the Basque Country Speakers: Henriette Lyttle-Breukelaar, Director of Economic Strategy, Greater Birmingham & Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership Bill Murray, Former Head of Economics and Public Policy at the British Embassy in Spain Dr Igor Calzada,...

The article entitled ‘Data Co-operatives through Data Sovereignty’ published in the journal Smart Cities in Open Access. This article illustrates an open debate in data governance and the data justice field related to current trends and challenges in smart cities, resulting in a new approach advocated...

The article entitled ‘Pandemic Citizenship: Will COVID-19 Reinforce Nation-States’ Borders and Liquify Citizens?’ published in the journal Academia Letters in Open Access. This article introduces the term ‘pandemic citizenship’ by sparking a debate regarding the way borders in nation-states may have been reinforced as as result...

The article entitled ‘Book Review: Smart City Citizenship’ published in the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs in Open Access. To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2021), Book Review: Smart City Citizenship, Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs 5(1), 145-150. DOI:10.25034/ijcua.2021-v5n1-7. Abstract: Against the backdrop of the current...

The article entitled 'Platform and Data Co-operatives Amidst European Pandemic Citizenship' published in the journal Sustainability in Open Access.

Article entitled 'Replicating Smart Cities: The City-to-City Learning Programme in the Replicate EC-H2020-SCC Project' published in Smart Cities journal

The article and the 29 Volume of the journal Galde will be published online by 7th July 2020 here. To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2020), Algorithmic Governance & AI in the Post COVID-19 Society // Herrigintza Algoritmikoa eta Adimen Artifiziala Post COVID-19 Gizartean. Galde...

This article remarks the importance of the techno-political stance amidst the post COVID-19 world geopolitics for the domain .EUS, representing the wide global Basque community.

Dr Calzada cited in the CAS brochure, published by the EC DG JRC.

Dr Calzada has contributed to a city-regional reflection in the Basque Country through the first issue launched by TM eLab (Telesforo Monzon eLab) to address the technological sovereignty issue in the EU realm given the timely urgent scenario emerged with the post-COVID-19 society. ABSTRACT: This...

Dr Calzada's article entitled 'The Role of Social Movements in the Social Innovation (SI): Euskaraldia, as a Digital Panopticon' being published in the journal BAT.

Dr Calzada has published in Apolitical the article entitled 'Will COVID-19 be the end of the Global Citizen?'

After the clear outcome of the General Elections in December 2019, Dr Calzada, as an academic of the University of Oxford, gave a brief analysis of the social context after the effective Brexit outcome. In this analysis, he highlighted the ongoing trade negotiation and changes...

The paper by Dr Calzada entitled 'Data and Platform Co-operatives amidst the European Algorithmic and Liquid Citizenship' has been accepted in Data Justice Lab 2020 Conference at Cardiff University (UK) on 28-29 May 2020.

Dr Calzada lectures the Oxford International's Humanities and Social Sciences Winter Course 2020 at the University of Oxford's St Antony's College.

Call for Abstracts: DigiTranScope Spring Institute 2020 (11-15 May)

Dr Igor Calzada was invited by the King's College by participating in the panel entitled 'Life at the edge of nations: Hong Kong, Kashmir, Catalonia'.

Dr Igor Calzada participates on 26th and 27th September 2019 in Barcelona on the 'Workshop on Public Policy, Cities and the State'.

Dr Calzada co-directed the Summer School 'Smart Rural Communities' that aims to experiment a new international development model based on the SDGs.

The RSA Journal publishes the article of Dr Calzada entitled 'Data Spaces and Democracy'.

Dr Igor Calzada contributes to the 4th issue of Regions eZine with a piece of research blending techno-political and city-regional assemblages.

Dr Calzada presents his invited paper in the International Symposium: City and Nation held by the University of Bristol (UK).

Dr Calzada has contributed to the volume on tourism as a result of the symposium that took place at the University of Deusto in May 2018. The publication is forthcoming in June 2019.

Dr Igor Calzada will participate as speaker at the 1st Conference of Public Policy organised by students of the LSE, Oxford, and Cambridge on 24 and 25th May 2019.

In late March 2019, Dr Calzada was kindly invited by the European Commission - JRC Centre for Advanced Studies to be speaker in the workshop DigiTranScope.

Since 2015 onwards, Dr Calzada has continuously been a lecturer in the MSc Master in Global Sustainable Cities at the University of Strathclyde for four editions.

The article entitled ‘Deciphering Smart City Citizenship: The Techno-Politics of Data and Urban Co-operative Platforms’ is forthcoming in RIEV journal by March 2019.

On 24th January, Dr Calzada scientifically directed the strategy through conducting the Smart Municipalities Symposium from the programme #HerriSmartik.

Dr Igor Calzada will take part in 'The Future of Urban Living Consultation' that will take place in the Windsor Castle in St George House on 13-14 December 2018.

On October 5, 2018, an strategic workshop took place in Bilbao, to define the Smart Municipalities' networked, evolution-guided and bottom-up strategy for the 252 municipalities encompassing the city-region.

The article entitled 'Algorithmic Nations: Seeing Like a City-Regional and Techno-Political Conceptual Assemblage' has been published in the Regional Studies, Regional Science journal.

'City-to-City-Learning' programme of Replicate project is being curated by Dr Calzada, as WP8 leader of the EU-H2020-Replicate project.

Dr Calzada has recently been appointed member of the Editorial Board of the open access journal 'Smart Cities' MDPI.

The article 'Local Entrepreneurship Through a Multistakeholders’ Tourism Living Lab in the Post-Violence/Peripheral Era in the Basque Country' has been accepted for publication by the journal Regional Science Policy & Practice. The article is an academic outcome of the intervention taking place in the coastal village of Zumaia in the Basque Country (Spain).

Dr Calzada will be the keynote speaker on the Summer School EIT Digital entitled 'Predictive analytics, big data, mobility and open platforms for an efficient and participative city' that will take place in Rennes in Britanny (France).

Dr Calzada participated in the roundtable entitled 'Transforming Tourism from the European Regions' at the University of Deusto, held by Ezkerraberri foundation and funded by Coppieters foundation. The conference and the roundtable revolved around alternatives views forward on tourism and its consequences in localised in the European regional realm.

Dr Calzada has been the coordinator of the European strategy by organising a Workshop Series entitled 'Bridging European Urban Transformations' from June 2016 to June 2018.

Dr Calzada will contribute as Discussant on 'City-Regional Geopolitics' and Panelist on 'Debates and Future Directions' on the Session: Seeing Like a Region.

Dr Igor Calzada will give a keynote presentation in the Urban Future Global Conference 2018 in Vienna on 28th February 2018.

Dr Calzada's article on the role of the social media in millennials' civilian participation in the cases of the 15M in Spain and Kitchenware Revolution in Iceland, has been published in the Journal Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation.

Dr Calzada is participating as partner representative and WP leader of Replication of Replicate EU project, in the 'Replication Workshop: From Follower to Lighthouse City for Smarter Cities' organised by EU-INEA in Brussels.

Dr Calzada will be teaching as an invited invited and guest lecturer on the MIT Metro Lab Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts on 11th January 2018 on 'Political Regionalism and Metropolitan Governance: Devolution, Metropolitanisation, and the Right to Decide'.

Dr Calzada from the Urban Transformations programme at the University of Oxford in collaboration with Dr Cowie from the Future Cities Catapult, has published the article on rethinking stakeholder-helixes strategies' in Regions magazine.

Dr Calzada published the article entitled 'Metropolitan and city-regional politics in the urban age: why does (smart) devolution matter?' via Palgrave Communications.

On the last 12th December, the workshop for analysing the multistakeholders' configuration was conducted by Dr Calzada in Lausanne (Switzerland).

Dr Calzada will deliver a Master Course on 'Smart Cities and Transformations for Territories and Cities' in the Urban and Territorial Studies School of the Basque Country in Bilbao.

Dr Calzada will took part in the thematic session entitled 'Going Beyond Data Mining: Building a City Data Strategy' of the SCEWC17 in Barcelona.

Dr Calzada is conducting this strategic process and setting-up the Tourism Living Lab.

Dr Calzada will contribute to the International Architecture Biennial in Donostia-San Sebastian, as panelist and keynote speaker on 8th and 9th November.

Dr Calzada delivered the opening keynote conference of the Nordic Basque Forum in Bilbao, 19th October 2017.

Kindly invited by the RSA (Regional Studies Association), Dr Calzada participated in the European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) in the European Commission, as keynote speaker, discussant and organiser.

Dr Calzada delivered a paper on 'Democratising Smart Cities: Urban Commons'.

Dr Calzada from the University of Oxford, conducted a workshop with the local and regional stakeholders of Essen.

On 11th September 2017, the third workshop from the Series 'Bridging European Urban Transformations' took place in Brussels coordinated by Dr Calzada.

Dr Calzada has been collaborating in the last couple of years with Mr Amitabh Satyam, the Managing Partner at SAP company in Bangalore, India, in order to prepare the publication of the following book: 'The Smart City Transformations: The Revolution of the 21st Century'. The book will be published by the prestigious Bloomsbury Academic & Professional division that also won the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year in both 2013 and 2014. The book is in print at present and it will be ready to be launched on December 2016.

Here is the list of publications produced by Dr Calzada from 2015 to 2017 on Smart Cities emphasizing aspects of the ongoing policy and research debate. Click on each image and the publication will be displayed in Open Access through Research Gate.

The State Conference in Culture will take place from 8th to 10th March in Valladolid (Spain). Dr Calzada will deliver a keynote entitled 'Culture a Tool for Innovating?'.

This is the full paper accepted and presented at the 1st World Conference on the Smart Destinations organised by the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation) in Murcia (Spain), from 15th to 17th February 2017. The paper presents the preliminary challenges around the intervention in the village, Zumaia, in the Basque coast of Spain. This paper summarizes a research project that will be set out with a prospective methodology aiming to define while implementing, the inner perception and outside projection of the touristic assets and activities in Zumaia and coastal region covering the Basque Coast Geopark.

The Basque Studies Society, Eusko Ikaskuntza, is preparing a 'White Paper on the Geographies of the Basque Country' 2018. On 14th January 2017, some stakeholders were gathered in a participatory setting to discuss and debate on topics such as social capital, diversity, ICT, branding and territorial imaginations and policies (the so called, 'Euskal Hiria' or the 'Basque City-Region'. The final aim is to think strategically after leaving behind the political violence dramatic episode and making the best of the territorial synergies onwards. This is the contribution and paper submitted by Dr Calzada (Univ. Oxford) to the strategic period consisting of…Read More

Dr Calzada will give a keynote conference and participate in the '2016 Strategic Innovation Summit: Smart Cities Europe' with representatives and senior leaders of smart city-regional strategies from Catalonia, Bristol, London, Dublin, Zaragoza as well as from other academic institutions in order to explore governance, business models, scaling-up solutions, challenges and opportunities.

In the first year of the EU-H2020-SCC-REPLICATE project, the workpackage leader, Dr Calzada with the assistance of the local coordinators, conducted three workshops in the three follower cities of the project: Laussane (Switzerland), Essen (Germany) & Nilüfer (Turkey).

After kicking off the workshop series on 14th November 2017 entitled 'Bridging European Urban Transformations' that Dr Calzada coordinates from the University of Oxford in partnership with the VUB, on 17th November he delivered a seminar lunch called: '(Un)Plugging Smart Cities: Transitions, Governance and Devolution'. This lunch seminar was a direct outcome of him being appointed 2016 Visiting Fellow at BCUS-VUB.

After Yinchuan Smart City 2016 conference organised by TMForum, Forbes and the CNN International covered some ideas presented by Dr Calzada regarding the concept (Un)Plugging Smart Cities inspired by the journal article published in the Journal of Urban Technology entitled 'Unplugging: Deconstructing the Smart City', which ranks as the 6th Most Read article so far with 1,929 visits.

Dr Igor Calzada has published article on the challenges of smart city interventions in the journal URBS, Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales that will be published on 2nd November 2016. Here this is the pre-print version (Author Original Manuscript).

From the 6th to 7th October, the RSA Regional Studies Association Research Network 'Smart City-Regional Governance for Sustainability' have held its first Conference in Dresden (Germany). Dr Calzada will deliver a keynote conference entitled: 'Unplugging Smart City-Regional Governance Strategies in Europe'.

Dr Calzada has given a keynote conference as expert insight on 'Defining Smart City Governance' into the programme of the three-day conference in the premier Smart City capital of China, Yinchuan, organised by TM Forum Smart City InFocus 2016.

Dr Calzada will open with the keynote conference 'Is Changing the Identity of (European) Cities?' the Summer School 'The Identity of the European Cities' 2016 in Donostia-St. Sebastián (Basque Country - Spain). The Summer School that will take place on 11-12 July 2016 in the Miramar Palace, is organised jointly by the San Sebastian Strategic Plan Office and Bilbao Metropolitan Agency BM30.

This policy report has been commissioned by the Future Cites Catapult as a collaborative undertaking with Dr Calzada, MACI Innovations and Translokal publishing to research the topic of Smart Infrastructure in nominated Cities in both the UK and Brazil. Future Cities Catapult is a global...

Dr Igor Calzada will deliver a paper entitled 'Comparing Cross-Bordering City-Regional Strategies Beyond Nation-States in Oresund and the Basque Country' in the 15th Border Regions in Transition (BRIT) Conference 'Cities, States and Borders: From the Local to the Global' in Hamburg (Germany) and Sonderborg (Denmark) between 17-20th May 2016.

Dr Igor Calzada, MBA, will deliver a keynote presentation in Vilanova i la Geltru, Garraf (Barcelona), on 'Smart City-Regions: Territorial & Urban Transformations' on 6th April 2016 in collaboration with Neàpolis, the Public Agency of Innovation, Barcelona Province Council and the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya).

Here is the chapter entitled 'About Independence (with independence)' that will contribute to a new edition on 'The Right to Decide, Power and Sovereignty' by Sorzain publishing.

Dr Igor Calzada has been awarded 2016 Visiting & Associate Research Fellowship at the Brussels Centre for Urban Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He will be working with two departments: Cosmopolis, Centre for Urban Research & POLI (Political Science).

REPLICATE, “Renaissance of PLaces with Innovative Citizenship And TEchnology”, is funded by a 29M grant from Horizon 2020, the main EU program fostering research and innovation actions. This project belongs to the “Lighthouse” call (Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects), one of the most competitive in the program. REPLICATE aims to increase the quality of life for citizens across Europe by demonstrating the impact of innovative technologies used to co-create smart city services with citizens, and prove the optimal process for replicating successes within cities…Read More

On 29th January 2016, Dr Calzada took part in the '7th Annual Smart Energy UK & Europe 2016 Summit' as moderator of the panel 'European Smart Cities, the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Connected Home' as well as delivering the conference 'Comparing EU Cities on Smart City-Regional Governance'.

This policy report, entitled 'Global Sustainable City-Regions' is the direct outcome of the new MSc Master Programme in Global Sustainable Cities jointly carried about the lecturer, Dr Igor Calzada, MBA and the seven participants/students working comparatively on seven global city-regional case-studies, as follows: Mumbai, Shenzhen, Reykjavik, Portland, Budapest, Rotterdam and Glasgow.

This article was requested by Eusko Ikaskuntza, Basque Studies Society, scientific body in the Basque Country. Dr Calzada elaborates on the question that was suggested to him: How can we overcome the divide between humanities and science? The author expresses the importance to invest on an applied social science knowledge field that would bring together both humanities and technical sciences.

Here is the interview in Euskalerria Irratia in Pamplona (Navarra) regarding the new political scenario in Catalonia and Spain after the General Elections 2015.

Dr Igor Calzada gave two keynote presentation in Moscow (Russia) regarding Smart Cities' strategies and potential implementations by stakeholders.

The article presents a broad debate regarding the critical transformations around the smart city mainstream trend by arguing in favour of including mundane technologies in the analysis of the current socio-technical needs for cities.

This book aims to suggest an strategic pathway for the Basque Country in a broader European context. The book is structured in four parts: Constitutional Change, Self-Government, The Right to Decide and Independence. The content of the book is a direct outcome from the Political Innovation 2015 Summer School that took place in St Sebastian in the Basque Country (Spain) in July 9-10 2015, with the participation of a broad political representation ensuring the relevant moment of gathering the five political Basque leaders in a political innovation lab (workshop) in direct interaction with the participants.

Dr Igor Calzada will deliver a presentation on 25th September 2015 in Glasgow in the PechaKucha event entitle 'Visions of Future of Cities' at the Institute for Future Cities at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He will provide some recommendations regarding the strategic change in cities.

Co-sponsored by GO Science Foresight Project on the Future of Cities and the ESRC Urban Transformations Programme, on 21 September 2015, Dr Calzada took part as a delegate of Future of Cities, University of Oxford in the Workshop on Technology and the Future of UK Cities at the Urban Innovation Centre.

Dr Calzada gave advise to the Oxford Smart Board on Smart City research and implementation projects on the 3rd September 2015 in the Oxford City Hall. In the Oxford Smart board are the following institutions: Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, OII, University of Oxford Research Services, Oxfordshire LEP and Nominet.

Here is the article by Dr Igor Calzada in the collection ‘Seres Urbanos/Urban Beings’ in the Planeta Futuro/Future Planet in El Pais newspaper: ‘MicroBreweries: Communitarian Entrepreneurship (or Hipsterism)?’.

Kindly invited by TEDx Montevideo, Dr Igor Calzada was a guest speaker in the 2015 edition on 15 June. Here is the presentation. The video will be forthcoming soon. Here too the brief visual ethnography and bitakora from the fieldwork carried out by 15th June while TEDxMontevideo edition and after this, in Montevideo.