This international network brings together different global perspectives to critically respond to the current smart city agenda. It is timely and innovative in approach and networks together a key set of academics working in different global contexts. It addresses a gap in current knowledge exchange and seeks to redress the balance of focus from highly urbanised, first-world contexts to marginalised and people-centred urban change and ICTs. The network involves academics working at the boundary between the disciplines of architecture, urban planning, urban studies, geography and ubiquitous computing who are working on projects that investigate the potentials and challenges of ICTs in urban space.