Matteo Tarantino
“In building the data-driven cities of tomorrow, we must never forget that data are products of people. There is no sustainable city without a sustainable data culture. There is no data culture without actual people sharing that culture. Without sustainable data cultures, we can only build expensive cardboard villages. And the world does not need any more of those.”
Matteo Tarantino, Ph.D. is assistant professor at the Catholic University of Milan, where he teaches Data, Information & Society and Information and Communication Systems; he is also a lecturer at the University of Geneva, where he teaches Cities in Transition and Urban Futures. His research focuses on the nexus between culture, data and sustainability in cities. He has collaborated with several UN agencies including UN-ECE, WHO and UN-Habitat. He is currently the coordinator of the Urban Digital Tech thematic area in the Federated Innovation network within Milan’s MIND project. He has authored over 50 publications.