The Smart City APIs Cook Book introduces to you the opportunities CitySDK and the Six City Strategy (6Aika) APIs offer for cities, developers and companies. It showcases the experiences of the CitySDK project and the six largest cities in Finland in their efforts to open harmonized APIs. It also gives…
The vast amount of data produced by cities is being opened up for companies and the talented developer community to use, bringing with it a world of opportunities – it can be used as raw material for data-based business and for developing smart applications and services that will immensely improve…
CitySDK Cookbook introduces to you the opportunities CitySDK APIs offer for cities and developers. It showcases the experiences Helsinki, Amsterdam and Lisbon have had with open harmonized APIs, giving concrete examples of the use of the current CitySDK APIs. Last part of the toolkit focuses on step-by-step guidance for starting…
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…
WORLD BANK e-INSTITUTE WEBINAR: ToolKit for City Service Development: Sharing Apps among Cities through Common Platforms and Standards Time and Place: September 24th, 17:00-18:00 EEST CitySDK (ToolKit for City Service Development) started as a pan-European project that aimed at creating open interoperable interfaces between cities in 8 major cities in…
CitySDK will be presented at the Open Living Lab Days in Amsterdam. Come and join us in discussing how cities could and why they should share best practices, code and services and collaborate on shared standards. WS5: CitySDK APIs boosting Smart City App development Date: Wednesday 3rd of September Time: 11.30…
On June 12th, the research group Digital Life of Create-IT organised the Measuring Amsterdam event. During this event, keynote speakers talked about Crowdsourcing, Amsterdam as a Smart City and data visualization. We also performed measurements and observations on the Wibautstraat (Knowledge mile) during the event. These measurements are derived from…