They never visited Lisbon and yet they know exactly where all the museums and points of interest of the city are located. And not only do they have all this information, they decided to share it with others and are now guiding tourists in their visits all around. Pierre…
The article titled “CitySDK: Helping cities open their data and giving developers the tools they need” was published on the 5th of September on the Digital Agenda for Europe. The article highlights the benefits of the CitySDK toolkit and introduces all three pilot domains: Participation, Mobility and Tourism. To read…
Environmental protection from productive investments becomes a major task for enterprises and constitutes a critical competitiveness factor. At the same time, the viability depends on the growth capability of all production sectors as well as on the guarantee that the environmental effects will not have a major social impact.…
I am a Senior Consultant / Project Manager with 10 years of experience in IT field – working with an Italian security firm active in EMEA area – carrying projects in Ethical Hacking, Security Operation Center and Secure Software Development Life-Cycle areas. Worked with Semantic Technologies since 2007. …
In South Europe nowadays, we are in front of unprecedented financial problems. We face crisis sustainability, even more a social crisis that requires urgent action. This demands consensus on the required actions, and innovation to develop new solutions. Open data can deliver the transparency and accountability to build trust…
Open data is freely available to anyone without any copyright restrictions for monitoring, reproduction or even further redistribution. If we assure of the emerging privacy concerns and also open data from the Greek Public Sector, we can doubtlessly raise the reliability of Greece in the eyes of the world.…
On the 11 of May 2013, Lamia organized the first night run with a lot of fun activities. The race consisted of two courses (3 km and 10 km), categorized as city run and took place inside the city. To help the organizing committee, runners, volunteers and audience, that had…
We participated in the Android Developer Days in Ankara, held between June 14 – 15th at the Middle East Technical University Congress and Culture Center. Qualcomm and Turkcell were the main sponsors, with many other ICT companies. The Android Community from Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir were present and the international speakers…
Metro newspaper has published a FixMyStreet –mobile web application. People in Helsinki can now report non-emergency issues such as broken streetlights using their smartphones. The issue reports are accepted by the reporters of Metro.fi news site and forwarded to the feedback system of the City of Helsinki using an…
Today, the institutions such as NASA, The United Nations, and the World Bank have opened their data. They have separate departments and also devoted employees working in these departments for this work. Besides the Data Experts and Experts working on open data software development, they have also “Data Stewarts”…