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”…
Traditional media is going through a horrible phase after over a century of wealth and strong position in our society. Media companies all over the world are struggling to survive, after failing to understand how quickly and powerfully the whole media landscape is changing. The disruption is of course…
At CitySDK @ WaagOpenSpace, developers of the API talk about the API and what they plan to do with it. This is my summary of the evening. Job Spierings: CitySDK introduction Job Spierings started the introduction by reiterating that open data for the CitySDK is important for transparency; releasing social and…
City of Helsinki has published its issue reporting API and thus joined cities utilizing the Open311 standard. The City of Helsinki is the second city in Europe to enable issue reporting API for external services, such as mobile and internet apps and web-services. First service to connect to the feedback…
In Amsterdam, we are currently working to enable smarter information services for tourists by implementing CitySDK. We are also looking at the possibilities of dynamic data services that might, while not yet available, greatly impact the opportunities regarding smarter information services. This means that we look further than the…