José Alberto Molina

Supervisor Details

Email: jamolina@unizar.es

Organization Type: University

Organization Name: Universidad de Zaragoza

Short Biography: José Alberto Molina is Full Professor of Economics (University of Zaragoza, Spain) since 2012. He is the Director of the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability-IEDIS (University of Zaragoza, Spain) since January 2021. He is also Research Fellow at IZA (https://www.iza.org/) and GLO (https://glabor.org/). Professor Molina has been Visiting Fellow at Warwick University (UK), at the University of Rhode Island (US) and at the Boston College (US). He is international reviewer of JCR journals, of research projects and grants, and of doctoral theses. José Alberto Molina has published in Ecological Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economic Modelling, Economics of Education Review, Energy Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, Feminist Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Policy Modelling, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Transport Geography, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Kyklos, PLOS ONE, Review of Economics of the Household, Transport Policy and Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, among others.

Daniel Sarasa

Co-Supervisor Details

Email: dsarasa@fundacionzcc.org

Organization Type: Non-academic institution

Organization Name: Zaragoza Knowledge Foundation (ZKF) (https://fundacionzcc.org/)

Short Biography: Telecommunications Engineer from the University of Zaragoza and Master in City Sciences from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. With extensive professional experience both nationally and internationally in the technology sector, from 2008 to 2020 he carried out his professional work at the Zaragoza City Council. After having contributed to launching the municipal Wi-Fi network and the public incubator system, he was also co-author of the Zaragoza Open Government Strategy. He currently directs the Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation. A regular speaker at smart city events, he is also chair of the Data Working Group of the EUrocities network and editor of an urban innovation blog (urbequity.com). He is the author of the book “Open city, digital city” (https://www.catarata.org/libro/ciudad-abierta-ciudad-digital_129524/)

Added Value: The co-supervisor is an expert in urban and digital issues. He will contribute to the answer to the following questions from a city approach: How have cities faced the digital revolution and its changes over the last three decades? What are the new social and political demands in urban design in the face of the emergence of digital technology? From the first technology parks to smart cities and big data, urban innovation policies have been discovering that technology is not enough to create more prosperous, sustainable and healthy cities. Essential issues such as the right to privacy and anonymity of citizens, the confusion between the public and the private in urban management, the need for more participatory and inclusive governance models or control over large technological corporations are some of the main issues. challenges and threats of this constantly changing model that is the “digital city”. This book takes a tour of the main milestones of its evolution in the world, in cities such as Seoul, Helsinki, Salford, Zaragoza, Toronto or Guadalajara (Mexico), analyzing the relationship between technology and urban design, in order to rethink policies. of urban innovation.