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”!…
by Ron Boonstra, reposted from Waag Society On Friday 30 August I was sitting next to developer Bert Spaan when he put the finishing touch to his datavisualisation of all buildings of the Netherlands, according to their year of construction and I just had some time left to put the fact…
CitySDK develops, together with its project partners, smart solutions for many countries. As these solutions become more common, some local issues may arise. It is important for us to share the problems we face and the solutions we find with our project partners and project implementers. Being the first…
On 22nd of September, Lamia organized the 7th Hercules Mountain Marathon with a lot of activities. The race consisted of three courses (6.2Km, 16.2 Km and 42.3Km), categorized as mountain run and took place on the mountain Oiti home of mythological hero Hercules. To help the organizing committee, runners, volunteers…
In the context of the cooperation between the European Network of Living Labs and the World Bank, CitySDK is one of the smart city projects that can solve problems in cities in developing countries. CitySDK was presented during a workshop with the Open Data team from the Municipality of…
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. …