Britain’s Open Data Institute has been doing some great work since it began two years ago, with data visualisation showcases, new training courses and workshops, incubation of some of the best new data businesses, and making the case in the UK and internationally for more and better open data. With…
During the summer as we updated the CitySDK website there were a number of key events which used the CitySDK APIs in developing new applications. Lisbon, who have led on the development of the CitySDK Tourism API, hosted the Vodafone Big Apps contest. A two day “app-athon” with large prizes…
FutureEverything’s Festival As Lab model (our take on living lab) is forming a keystone part of the 20th anniversary FutureEverything festival, which takes place 26-28 February 2015 in Manchester. The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and FutureEverything are inviting expressions of interest for self-funded research and innovation projects –…
CitySDK will be the subject of a presentation at the Smart Data for Government conference in London on the 23rd-24th September. Speaking at 9.40 on the morning of September 24th, Adrian Slatcher will be talking about “Enabling Cities to Open Data” Recognising the need for skills such as code fellows…
Colleagues in Italy and elsewhere are invited along to “Internet Things in the Makers Era” this week in Rome. We would all like to live in intelligent cities, be able to interact with the public administration and have real time data, but how can we achieve this? The CitySDK Project…
At a time where Lisbon is perceived as one of the must visit European capitals, Vodafone has now launched Vodafone Lisbon Big Apps, to find out and reward the best future smartphone applications that will focus on improving citizens, tourists and workers’ lives. Initially, the 20 best ideas will be selected for a development…
In Manchester we have been working with the linked data platform developed by Waag Society for the last year. We were given a preview of it last March where we were able to make it available to developers at the FutureEverything Festival Transport Innovation Challenge, where a number of…
FutureEverything Festival ‘Tools for Unknown Futures’ Manchester, 27 March – 1 April futureeverything.org FutureEverything, Manchester’s city-wide ‘festival as laboratory’ returns from 27 March – 1 April 2014 with the theme ‘Tools for Unknown Futures’. The thought-provoking programme will feature a pop-up city, the next generation of data art, sound installations,…
Citizens of Helsinki can report non-emergency issues, such as potholes and broken street signs to the City of Helsinki using a new service. Helsinki’s “FixMyStreet-style service was opened last March, and it received positive feedback both from the media and citizens. The service was released by Metro-newspaper and can be…
Nowadays, we see that the developer community is really interested in hackathon events all over the world in order to develop interesting and useful applications collaboratively. These events are also named as “DevCamp”, “Hackday”, “CodeFest”, “Innovation Challenge”, “Unconference”, etc. in various cities. Now, a new name for the list: “HACKATHONIST”!…