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Future Internet Assembly – Dublin
CitySDK is one of a number of projects that will be featured at the Future Internet Assembly in Dublin in May. The Connected Smart Cities workshop on May 7th brings together a range of smart cities projects to enable sharing of good practice, updates on progress and a chance to talk to other partners in [...]
Living Labs Summer School Call for Abstracts
The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is pleased to invite submission of abstracts for presentation at its upcoming yearly ENoLL 4th Living Lab Summer School Research day taking place on August 27th 2013 as part of the Summer School (28/8 – 30/8) in Manchester, UK. Registrations to the Summer School will be opened shortly. [...]
Routes to the Future – Transport Innovation Challenge
FutureEverything and Transport for Greater Manchester present Routes to the Future: An Innovation Challenge, an intensive 48 hour competition aimed at coders and creative software developers to build new, useful applications from TfGM’s data that will improve the public transport experience for people of Greater Manchester. There are cash and development prizes available for the [...]
Visit to the Open Data Institute
The Open Data Institute in Shoreditch, east London, was our destination last week, as partners from CitySDK and Commons 4 EU were in London for a three day workshop. The ODI was established with funding mainly from the UK Government from representations by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and has at its mission [...]
Online data standards for cities
The article on Civic Innovations points out the importance of common standards. Data standardization across cities is a critical milestones that must be realized to advance the open data movement, to fully realize all of the potential benefits of openly publishing government data. More people are starting to realize the importance of this milestone and more energy [...]
Helsinki is piloting “Metro Fix my street” service
In Finland, Sanoma Media Company and City of Helsinki together with Forum Virium Helsinki are piloting a new issue-reporting channel that enables citizens to give feedback on the faults they have observed in the public environments. Through Sanoma’s “Metro Fix my street” web service citizens can send feedback, for example, regarding broken traffic signs [...]
Finding out what Travellers Want
Facebook-study reveals what travellers want Sanne Broeder, Bibi Eckhardt, Lotte Wierema, Maartje van Engelen and Esther Nijdam (all five students of Masters Communication Science) conducted a study in the week of 14 to 20 January, in the context of their research seminar (http://projectimpactvu . wordpress.com) and our project CitySDK. The study was designed to gather [...]
Happy Christmas and New Year from CitySDK
Dear friends, We’ve had a successful first year on the “CitySDK” project culminating with our first project review in Brussels. During the year we’ve worked across 8 European cities, with 23 partners, to develop the first draft of the CitySDK “a service development toolkit” API For cities, which will enable developers to create new interoperable [...]
Arts Holland offers cultural Linked Open Data
Last week, Waag Society and it’s partners released Arts Holland. This platform is the primary resource for Linked Open Data on tourism and culture in the Netherlands and will play a role in the tourism (replication) pilot of CitySDK. The platform offers Linked Open Data to be used within CitySDK. Linked Open Data is freely accessible data [...]
Data Crossfader Wins first Manchester Hackathon
On Saturday 17 November, 16 teams, including five teams of under 21 years old took part in Manchester’s first Hackathon – a day of coding, hacking and software development – organised by FutureEverything, Open Data Manchester and Manchester City Council. There were six cash prizes given. Utilising the open data sets made available by Manchester [...]
