In the week of February 3rd, 2500 first year students from the University of Applied Science of Amsterdam collaborated to create new apps using open data for Amsterdam. During the SIM (Students in Motion) week, 250 teams of 10 students each were assigned to a specific neighborhood in Amsterdam.…
Today Open311 was the primary inspiration for CitySDK team to develop its own API to help European cities communicate more efficiently with their citizens. Potholes, broken traffic signs, abandon vehicles are some of everyday requests’ types that are being submitted on Open311-compliant servers around the world. Citizens using their…
Istanbul as being one of the most crowded and attractive cities in the world, hosts several hackathons nowadays. But one of them was remarkable where Istanbul City data were used by the developers. Thanks to CitySDK Project, Istanbul transport data was opened by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality for the HACKATHONIST organized…
Imagine a city where public decision-making is easy for all to follow and comment on using any digital channel. A solution to this challenge is being sought in Helsinki, which has long been working to unlock the data reserves related to municipal decision-making. In September 2013, more than 1,000…
The November Issue of the MSDN Magazine concentrates on the government-focused app development scenarios and therefore promotes the Open311 standard. Tim Kulp, the leader of the development team at United Healthcare International in Baltimore, demonstrates the benefits of the Open311 API by integrating it into Windows Store apps. According…
ICT 2013, the event on digital technologies and ICT organized by the European Commission, took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) from the 6th to the 8th of November, 2013. 5.000 people attended the conference and visited the exhibition, including 80 highly rated international speakers. Around 200 stands and 180 networking sessions…
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,…
On Tuesday 26 November the Guardian published an article regarding importance of holistic approach to smart city planning. Centralized operations systems should engage with citizens and not just monitor them; citizen should question policy and the use of big data, while also contributing to it. From the business of…
Lisbon is committed with the opening of data sets with high value for civic participation and support to economic activities and to the development of new services. As a result, several data sets, including points of interest and events occurring all over the city, are available in a portal…
End users and Critical Infrastructures are the preferred targets, also within Cities: In 2006, John Aycock published in his book “Computer Viruses and Malware”, a timeline for malware and virus. The first one was a virus which attacked single computers. Then, with the growth of local networks and Internet, worms were…